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

One logical explanation is that the texts were buried after the Church Father Athanasius and others condemned the gnostic teachings of Valentinus. These teachings were viewed as erroneous and ...

Irenaeus (of Lyons, France) is said to have articulated the doctrine of apostolic succession in the second century to counter Gnostic teaching. This teaching taught that Christ or the Apostles spread ...

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 ...

Calming exercises can help tame anxiety, but a creative life is a cure-all according to author Martha Beck: “Anxiety can’t ...