Christian Gnosis

"""That Baur's speculative masterpiece, Die christliche Gnosis (1835), has not been translated into English before now has always struck me as a scandal. Fortunately, it is a scandal no more, and, arguably, it was worth the wait to have the eminent theologian and master scholar of both Hegel and Baur be the translator. Hodgson's translation of this difficult and sometimes meandering text is impeccable. But what is even more impressive is that in his translation we capture some of the excitement of Baur's critical retrieval of ancient forms of thought laid aside in the emergence of the Catholic Church that has shaped--whether consciously or unconsciously--a form of modern Protestantism that moves decisively beyond sola scriptura."" --Cyril O'Regan, Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology, Notre Dame University ""In Christian Gnosis, Ferdinand Christian Baur set forth with vigor and surprising clarity what he referred to as the 'internal coherence' of the gnostic system, from antiquity to the thought of his older contemporaries, Schelling, Schleiermacher, and Hegel. In this beautiful annotated translation, Peter Hodgson and Robert Brown make this important work accessible to the anglophone world at last, enabling a new generation of readers to wrestle with Baur's provocative synthesis of a perennial theme."" --David Lincicum, Rev. John A. O'Brien Associate Professor of Theology, Notre Dame University"