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

Gnosticism also, says Bultmann ... so Bultmann and others attributed its origin to the Hellenistic Church. Quispel notes that a Jewish-Christian community, unaffected by the supposed prejudices ...

The theologian Valentinus was instrumental in developing Christian Gnosticism. He established his own school of thought in Alexandria, though scholars now view this as an early Church. Valentinus ...

Gnosticism was a religious and philosophical ... of beliefs that predated Christianity altogether. But we do know the Church Fathers were generally hostile to the movement, because they were ...

Another gnostic teacher, Monoimus ... or the member of a village church on the coast of Greece. Yet Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox agree that such diversity is a recent--and deplorable ...

Many of the later pseudo-Gospels of the late first and second centuries were produced by gnostic authors claiming to be an ...