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

The Gnostics, with their various systems, taught that the creator of the material world (therefore the God of the Old Testament) was in fact an inferior and malevolent god, the abortive offspring ...

Yet to know oneself, at the deepest level, is simultaneously to know God; this is the secret of gnosis. Another gnostic teacher, Monoimus, says: Abandon the search for God and the creation and ...

A preliminary creed was penned to spell out the orthodox belief, which was then refined at the Council of Constantinople in ...

One such "believer" so-called quoted in the article called himself a "Gnostic Christian." He said, "I don't need someone to interpret God for me . . ." For him, church was not for instruction, much ...