How did the gnostics themselves demonstrate and understand this secret inner knowledge? Many, many Christians, who are not appreciated by many of the leaders of the church, believed that spiritual ...

Orthodox Jews and Christians insist that a chasm separates humanity from Its creator: God is wholly other. But some of the gnostics who wrote these gospels contradict this: self-knowledge is ...

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Gnosticism as a theological position developed not long after the time of the New Testament as Christianity began to spread ...

Rumors abound about Satanism. Its adherents are often portrayed as evil, bloodthirsty deviants in popular culture. But that's ...

This much despised and poorly understood book speaks its own symbolic language, one which Christians can’t usually be bothered ... an up close and personal ministry to counteract the practical ...

Johannine Christianity and Judaism," Christianity ... Particularly influential today is the Gnostic interpretation of Bultmann, both in his commentary and in his Theology of the New Testament, Vol. II ...

At the heart of Mounk’s argument lies a deeper critique of contemporary liberalism — one that mirrors a larger ideological shift, which I’ll call “gnostic liberalism.” This mutation ...

As Calvin B. DeWitt explains, we Christians can fall into seeing the world in three different ways that are in tension with scripture: the utilitarian view, the gnostic view, and the no crisis view.

In addition to an authorship too late to be James, they are also part of gnostic texts written in an attempt to legitimize the early movement within Christianity. James the son of Alphaeus ...