In a recent column, we considered the philosophy of Stoicism. This week we shall consider “Gnosticism,” a movement which was similar in some ways to Christianity but in other ways very different.

In a recent column, we considered the philosophy of Stoicism. This week we shall consider “Gnosticism,” a movement which was similar in some ways to Christianity but in other ways very different.

There are a significant number of words, phrases and acronyms that appear when talking about race and ethnicity which often change depending on the context of the conversation. Language is ...

The Albigensians, or Cathars as they were known, had popped up in the region, spreading their dualistic theology and Gnostic heresy. They were anti-Catholic in the extreme, rejecting marriage ...

The Nag Hammadi texts were discovered near Nag Hammadi in Egypt. They are gnostic works that present a worldview that denies the divinity of Christ and the goodness of creation. In 1945 a startling ...

Wayne notes that typically the Nazis would refer to themselves as Aryans, which supposedly descended from giants, particularly Indo-Aryans, a term frequently used in secular and Gnostic literature.

But well over 40 of them were completely unknown until the discovery in Upper Egypt of the Gnostic library containing the Gospel of Thomas and 43 other apocryphal writings. What has the study of ...

A common theory is that the Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of Gnostic texts, were an illegal stash of books hidden from Orthodox Christian authorities. But recent scholarship has called this ...