For good or ill, Eric Voegelin is probably best known, especially among many who have not actually read him, for his denunciations of something called “gnosticism.””1 Even some who have read him but remain skeptical about the value of his thought associate him with a virtually monomaniacal anti-gnostic polemic. Thomas J. J. Altizer, for example, … Continue reading Voegelin’s “Gnosticism” Reconsidered