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 ...

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 ...

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

In Christian tradition, an archangel is among of the most revered and powerful spiritual beings in the celestial hierarchy.

But do esoteric Gnostic texts or lost gospels mean that early Christians shared no common “core” of belief? Such popular scholarship too often overlooks the fact that a common denominator of ...

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