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

Gnosticism was a religious and philosophical movement that taught the existence of secret knowledge, which could benefit few people who managed to obtain it. Scholars disagree on whether ...

5:14). The same words and formulas often occur in both the New Testament and the Gnostic library, but the religions they represent belong to different worlds. The publication of each new Gnostic ...

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Even so, ideas that we associate with Eastern religions emerged in the first century through the gnostic movement in the West, but they were suppressed and condemned by polemicists like Irenaeus.

Gnostics, who flourished in the second and third centuries, taught the separation of body and soul and that being male or female gets in the way of salvation. In Gnostic thought, what you feel in your ...

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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 ...

Mythologist and author John Lamb Lash examines the ancient gnostic religion and explores its relevance to contemporary times in this fascinating program The gnostic belief system revolved around ...