By the end of the second century there was considerable debate among Christian teachers, theologians, about how best to articulate Christian belief. Gnostics are charged by their their critics ...

The term “gnostikoi” (from a root word meaning “knowledge-supplying”) was first used by Irenaeus of Lyons to describe a ...

From The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels Vintage ... Other sayings in this collection criticize common Christian beliefs, such as the virgin birth or the bodily resurrection, as naïve ...

In the context of modern liberalism, this gnostic impulse manifests as a belief in the self’s radical autonomy — the idea ...