Gnostics and Other Heretics Early documents suggest the first Christian communities had radically different interpretations of the meaning of Jesus' life and teachings. Elaine H. Pagels: The ...

Gnosticism was a religious and philosophical movement that taught the existence of secret knowledge, writes Gregory Elder.

Our Bodies, Ourselves and Our Lord Christians reject the Gnostic view that our ‘true selves’ are immaterial. By Robert Barron Share Resize ...

Time magazine’s cover story (only available online to subscribers and AOL users) jumps onto the Gnostic bandwagon (not that this web site is immune) to explain why the dozens of alternative ...

Explore the mystical world of Gnostic Christianity, where salvation comes through secret knowledge (gnosis), the material world is seen as a flawed creation, and the true God is beyond comprehension.

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 ...

Marvin W. Meyer, an expert on Gnosticism and ancient texts about Jesus outside the New Testament who challenged the traditional portrayal of Judas Iscariot as the ultimate biblical villain, has died.

Ohio State University's David Brakke, professor of Christian history, will lecture on the early Christian heresy of Gnosticism at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. The free lecture ...

Snowpiercer is shaping up to be the sleeper success of 2014. But no one has yet commented on one of the film’s most unusual subtexts — its direct allusions to Gnosticism, the ancient Christian ...