The foes of genuine Protestantism have been, to use Matthew Arnold's term, the philistines, middle-class Christians who have refused to take authentic knowledge seriously because they are certain they already know or else already feel whatever must be known or felt to accomplish their goal. What they, in fact, know or feel is very akin to what Irenaeus called pseudo-gnosis, a knowledge that appears to be what it is not at all. It is a kind of knowledge that involves escape from reality. - Philip J. Lee. Against the Protestant Gnostics. (114)
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