Gnosticism also, says Bultmann ... the Gospel of Thomas confirms the trustworthiness of the Bible. “We may now have an independent Gospel tradition which … in the broad outlines of both ...

Scholar Elaine Pagels explores these documents and their implications. From The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels Vintage Books, New York: 1979 pp. xiii-xxiii In December 1945 an Arab peasant made ...

Many gnostic texts still highlight the importance of morality and the avoidance of sin as being integrated into this search for knowledge. At the end of this path of salvation is not heaven, as in ...

This week we shall consider “Gnosticism,” a movement which was similar in some ways to Christianity but in other ways very ...

A common theory is that the Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of Gnostic texts, were an illegal stash of books hidden from Orthodox Christian authorities. But recent scholarship has called this ...