Genre
Religious
Setting and Context
Set in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, and written in the context of the divisions of early Christianity
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
The tone is enlightening and the mood is cheerful.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist is the Gnostic people while the antagonist is the Orthodox Church.
Major Conflict
There is a conflict between Gnostics and Orthodoxy which divides the Christian church.
Climax
The climax is when the Gnostics people are persecuted by Christians because they are against Orthodoxy beliefs.
Foreshadowing
The discovery of the lost books of the Bible in Egypt foreshadowed the division in Christianity in the early centuries.
Understatement
The early church understated the influence of the Gnostics gospel on Christianity.
Allusions
The story alludes to the genesis of the divisions of the early Christian church.
Imagery
Orthodoxy and the early Christian church utilize visual imagery to help readers comprehend the genesis of divergence and the Gnostic gospel.
Paradox
The main paradox is that the early church persecuted Christians who were deemed rebels because they tried to think differently and questioned church doctrines.
Parallelism
There is parallelism between the Christian gospel and the Gnostic beliefs about God.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
Gnostics are used as metonymy for the opposition.
Personification
The Holy Church is personified as authoritative and influential, they are traits that are attributed to human beings.
