Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity. This is the premise of a new book by April DeConick, the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of ...

Gnosticism, the religious rival that lost out to orthodox Christianity in ancient times, has become fashionable again thanks to Dan Brown's huge-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code," along with the ...

If there ever was one unified Christian movement, it probably died with Jesus at the first Easter. Ever since, Christianity has been a collection of any number of diverse groups. Some - such as the ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Judge it by its cover, and you might imagine that Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is just another trashy airport novel, with no greater ...

Imagine a Bible that begins like this: God said, “I am the Lord thy God, and there are no other gods but me.” Then a voice came out of the deepest heaven and said, “Thou liest, god of the blind!” Or ...

This sprawling conspiracy theory traces the influence of ancient Egyptian and gnostic ideologies concerning a dualistic, Manichean cosmos prefiguring the earthly order, knowable only through secret, ...

Much has been made of the revelation of the Gospel of Judas, a new apocryphal gospel from a Gnostic background. The word apocrypha is Greek and means “hidden,” “secret” or “stored away.” Generally, ...

Discussion of Gnosticism at a recent gathering of local clergy generated a comment from one pastor that perhaps Christian scriptures should be kept in a loose-leaf binder so we can add and remove ...

Though Gnostic sects faded in the early church, Gnostic ideas have had a long shelf life. This world is not my home. As it stands, that statement reflects the views of a great many orthodox Christians ...