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The Search for Perfection: Gnostic Christianity and Spiritual Power | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 3.2
Abigail L. Rosenthal is searching for a way out of a life that no longer seems to be working. Then she meets Suzanne.
Suzanne speaks with unusual authority. She wants to be perfect. She calls herself a Gnostic Christian. She seems able to move through difficult situations without fear, without losing her femininity, and without accepting the limits that govern everyone else.
Abigail is skeptical, but she is also fascinated. Suzanne appears to possess something Abigail desperately wants: a way to rise above the slow, grinding consequences of ordinary life.
What begins as curiosity soon becomes…
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