| Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism Apocalypse of the Alien God shows that the fundamental break between the Platonic tradition and Judeo-Christianity began when the mystic Plotinus rejected the teachings of the Sethians, an influential group of Gnostics who operated at the intersection of Hellenic, Jewish, and Christian thought. Dylan M. Burns is Research Associate at Leipzig University. |