The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back: An Old Heresy for the New Age, by Peter Jones / Commentary on Proverbs, by George Lawson

The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back: An Old Heresy for the New Age, by Peter Jones. Phillipsburg, New Jersey: P&R Publishing, 1992. 112 pages. $6.95 (paper). [Reviewed by the Editor.] Presbyterian theologian Peter Jones makes a convincing case for his contention that the New Age movement is the reappearance of the ancient heresy of Gnosticism. The apostles themselves and the early post-apostolic church opposed and condemned Gnosticism. "The New Age," writes Jones, "is in fact a modern form of...