Another thing that gnostics worried about was the relationship between the divine element and the human element in Jesus, and in some cases they seem to have made a similar sort of distinction ...

During the last 40 years German scholars, notably Rudolph Bultmann, have claimed that New Testament writers, especially in their understanding of Jesus Christ, depended largely upon Gnostic myths.

But some of the gnostics who wrote these gospels contradict this: self-knowledge is knowledge of God; the self and the divine are identical. Second, the "living Jesus" of these texts speaks of ...

In the case of Christian Gnosticism, this savior is Jesus, but not in the way that mainstream Christianity views him. Gnostics view Jesus as a figure who is a direct emanation of the Supreme Being ...

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

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

Could Jesus have actually spoken this? We do not know. What to know about Mariann Budde, the bishop who upset Trump with her inaugural sermon Perhaps the oddest part of this Gnostic gospel is the ...