The early Gnostics claimed their message came directly from Jesus through the apostles. Many of the later pseudo-Gospels of ...

For the purpose of this article, our focus will be on Christian Gnosticism specifically, and how this belief system differed (and opposed) early Orthodox Christian views of salvation. The ...

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

Early writers regarded Gnosticism simply as an aberration of Christianity, but more recent scholars have viewed Gnosticism as a world-wide syncretistic movement that drew from many ancient religions.