What Muhammad 'All discovered at Nag Hammadi is, apparently, a library of writings, almost all of them gnostic. Although they claim to offer secret teaching, many of these texts refer to the ...

Bultmann and others argue that Gnosticism, widespread before the rise of Christianity, affected central New Testament teaching. Bultmann says, for example, that references to Satan as the “god ...

Gnostics of the early centuries CE were labeled as heretics, as their interpretation of scripture and the life of Jesus Christ was contradictory to the teachings of the early church. Gnostic ...