All kinds of literature from the early Christian era, a whole discovery of text rather like the New Testament but also very different. The term gnosticism is often used as a sort of umbrella term ...

From the moment that Karen L. King entered Brown University’s graduate program in religion, in the 1970s, she wanted to study Gnosticism. She was one… Lost texts of Christianity have created ...

alentinianism was a prominent variety of early Christianity starting in the 2nd century CE. Some call it a form of Gnosticism. But what is Valentinianism all about? The surprising trend shaking up ...

Though Gnostic sects faded in the early church, Gnostic ideas have had a long shelf life. This world is not my home. As it stands, that statement reflects the views of a great many orthodox ...

Call it part of the Gnostic connection, a long, fine thread of influence connecting contemporary cultural debates with an important struggle in the early Christian movement to define the meaning ...

Twenty years ago, Elaine Pagels wrote The Gnostic Gospels, a book that introduced the larger public to the other "Christian" writings that arose in the early centuries of the church. Regarding the ...

His lecture will explore reasons why the Church did not actually reject Gnosticism, a system of beliefs that developed about secret ways to salvation. Brakke will introduce the early Christian ...