The term “gnostikoi” (from a root word meaning “knowledge-supplying”) was first used by Irenaeus of Lyons to describe a ...

For the purpose of this article, our focus will be on Christian Gnosticism specifically, and how this belief system differed (and opposed) early Orthodox Christian views of salvation. The ...

From The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels Vintage ... Other sayings in this collection criticize common Christian beliefs, such as the virgin birth or the bodily resurrection, as naïve ...

But well over 40 of them were completely unknown until the discovery in Upper Egypt of the Gnostic library containing the Gospel of Thomas and 43 other apocryphal writings. What has the study of ...