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

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 ...