Gnosticism as a theological position developed not long after the time of the New Testament as Christianity began to spread and its ideas were being developed. While gnostic beliefs can be widely ...

The people whom they called gnostics would have called themselves Christian. And they were Christians of very diverse viewpoints. I mean, we think today Christianity looks diverse. If you look ...

We may speculate on how Old Testament materials found their way into Gnosticism (whether through Christianity, pre-Christian Jewish Gnosticism, or by direct borrowing from Judaism), but that they are ...

Another gnostic teacher, Monoimus ... We note, too, that Hippolytus, who was a Greek speaking Christian in Rome (c. 225), knows of the Indian Brahmins--and includes their tradition among the ...

On Jan. 6, 2021, six permissions for demonstrations were issued in Washington, D.C., four of which were to Christian groups.

Voegelin’s analysis of “Gnosticism” can help us to understand ... tradition developed primarily by the Greek philosophers and Christian theologians denied that a claim of good intentions ...

And we were being fed Gnosticism. Lesson of the day: ancient heresies are alive and well in modern culture. Gone are the days when the average Christian could get away with not knowing what the ...

American worshipers have moved away from Christianity and now embrace pre-Christian Gnosticism, asserts Bloom ( The Book of J ). In his most controversial book to date, the Yale professor defines ...

“God forgive me.” Her faith appears based on a form of Gnosticism—an ancient Christian heresy built on the notion that the physical world is evil and the spiritual world is good, so ...

But I suspect the ease with which hands have been eliminated from ministry also reveals a practical gnosticism at work ... existed in the Middle East and points west until well into the Christian era.

We may speculate on how Old Testament materials found their way into Gnosticism (whether through Christianity, pre-Christian Jewish Gnosticism, or by direct borrowing from Judaism), but that they are ...