April Deconick: 2 books
The Gnostic New Age
How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity. Before it emerged in the second century, passage to the afterlife required obedience to God and king. Gnosticism proposed that human beings were manifestations of the divine, unsettling the hierarchical...
Holy Misogyny
Why the Sex and Gender Conflicts in the Early Church Still Matter
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
In Holy Misogyny, bible scholar April DeConick wants real answers to the questions that are rarely whispered from the pulpits of the contemporary Christian churches. Why is God male? Why are women associated with sin? Why can't women be priests? Drawing on her extensive knowledge of the early Christian...