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

Scholars disagree on whether Gnosticism evolved out of ancient Judaism, Christianity, or is better identified with other salvation sects from the Roman world. It may have been a set of beliefs ...

but more recent scholars have viewed Gnosticism as a world-wide syncretistic movement that drew from many ancient religions. Bultmann and others argue that Gnosticism, widespread before the rise ...

These were the “gnostic” faiths that saw life on earth ... the doctrine of rebirth is to disregard a central tenet of this ancient faith. The author writes and lectures on the relevance ...

They are gnostic works that present a worldview that denies the divinity of Christ and the goodness of creation. In 1945 a startling discovery was made by a farmer in a cave in Egypt. This discovery ...

Today, his understanding of God, the world, and salvation seems to be that of a theosophist or a neo-gnostic -- though he continues to ... such as the magisterial three volume Oxford Encyclopedia of ...