scholars often call "Sethian Gnostics" as the Gnostic school of thought and argues that the thought and practice of only these Christians should be considered "Gnosticism" (if indeed one should even use this term). This middle way on the question of Gnosticism has not found as much support among historians of early Christianity as other approaches, perhaps because it does not completely reject the evidence of heresiologists like Irenaeus but engages it critically,
