According to Bloom, some parts of American Christianity have stressed "a Gnostic knowing of Jesus through direct acquaintance." Since this experience of "Jesus" is direct, there is no need for an ...

The ads are designed to reach people who have come to believe that Jesus could not possibly love them.  They may have engaged ...

"[Jesus Seminar advocates] tend to say our primary and most important source of Jesus has not been canonical gospel in the New Testament, but rather extra biblical sources like the Gnostic gospels, ...

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 ...

Jesus in John 6:31-33 compares Himself to this ... Ignatius of Antioch warned the Smyrnaeans about the Docetes - gnostic heretics: They (the Docetes) have no care for love, no thought for the ...

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 ...

Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, has garnered headlines for a sermon she delivered at the ...

First Timothy, Second Timothy, and Titus are known as the pastoral Pauline Epistles. The pastoral epistles were written to individuals and addressed church leadership, organization, and governance in ...

In many ways, the core of religion has to do with helping people to recognize what a gift life is and to find ways to live what the New Testament sometimes calls an abundant life, which is what Yale ...