If anything seems like a definitive title it is this one, the 'Apotheosis of the Gnosis', a work of aphoristic philosophy which enabled John O'Loughlin to draw the various strands of his thinking together and to enunciate his world-view with such logical consistency and comprehensive exactitude ... that he felt as though nothing significant had been overlooked and there was even room for one or two long-standing grudges and resentments to be aired in the interests of enhanced credibility.

As suggested by the title, 'A Perfect Resolution' resolves some outstanding problems and anomalies appertaining to the preceding work ('Stairway to Judgement'), including, not least, the relative positions of what have been called pseudo-sin and pseudo-grace on the one hand and pseudo-crime and pseudo-punishment on the other, drawing them closer to their respective primary complements in both state and church, so that a more integrated conclusion has been reached in which the hegemonic gender of either axis, as redefined in the text, conditions the nature of the subordinate attribute in...