This week we shall consider “Gnosticism,” a movement which was similar in some ways to Christianity but in other ways very ...

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.

At U.S. presidential inaugurations, prayers often reflect national identity as much as faith. From New York Cardinal Timothy ...

Leonard Cohen was known to toil over songs for decades, and 'Born In Chains' took the Canadian 40 years to write, owing to ...

Apart from Gnosticism, the Gospel of Thomas will provide textual critics with a great deal of new, and often puzzling, material. About half the sayings in the Gospel of Thomas parallel those in ...

Gnosticism, also from the early centuries of the church, held that special spiritual knowledge (gnosis), apart from that revealed in Scripture, was necessary for salvation. Then there was ...

The subterranean world that has always accompanied Catholic communities, called Gnosticism by our ancestors, had again surfaced and attempted to usurp the truth of the Catholic tradition.

The solution they came up with is famously stated in the Declaration of Independence: “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” This revolutionary truth, combining human reason and divine revelation, ...