Barna calls that belief system "pick and choose theology." Another way of putting it, of course, is "Gnosticism." In one form or another, Gnosticism has been tormenting Christianity since the late ...

But well over 40 of them were completely unknown until the discovery in Upper Egypt of the Gnostic library containing the Gospel of Thomas and 43 other apocryphal writings. What has the study of ...

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 ...

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While Hitler and his Nazi supporters were wreaking havoc upon Europe —upon the world, for that matter— they also had other ...

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 ...

This challenges the core Christian belief that Jesus is both divine and human who is forever distinct from the rest of humanity he came to serve. Some historians suggested that Buddhist enlightenment ...

An examination of the contested category known as 'gnosticism,' the texts found at Nag Hammadi, and the challenges posed by this material to our expectations as we attempt to understand developments ...

Modern scholars may question St. Dominic’s role in the Rosary, but historical evidence offers a compelling case.

There were numerous beliefs, interpretations ... The people who founded these sects were known as Gnostics. They believed they held a secret knowledge about God and the divine, held different ...