[B-Greek] "Gnostic" and "agnostic"

Stephen Goranson goranson at duke.edu
Wed Apr 13 06:25:56 EDT 2011


A bit of trivia. OED suggests that "agnostic" was coined by Huxley in 1869. On Google books I found Agnostics in a book dated 1857, but Google book dates are often mistaken, so I got the book. And sure enough, Agnostics was there, published in 1857. But the translation of Augustine on Psalms discussed Agonistics (those who struggle, fight) both before and after. So Agnostics there apparently was a typo.

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson


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