About the Author

Andrew Welburn taught at the University of London, has been a Fellow of the Warburg Institute and taught at New College, Oxford, until 2005. He is author of several books on the Romantic tradition, and also of The Beginnings of Christianity, and Gnosis: The Mysteries and Christianity.

Reviews

'The book contains some wonderful passages with an informative commentary showing up the relationship between Christianity and Mani's "religion of light".'
-- Network, April 1999