How did the gnostics themselves demonstrate and understand this secret inner knowledge? Many, many Christians, who are not appreciated by many of the leaders of the church, believed that spiritual ...

And this was not universal by any means. We know from, for example, the literature recovered at Nag Hammadi, that gnostic Christianity didn't have the kind of clear hierarchy that other forms of ...

But more useful to students of early Christian history is a cache of Coptic papyri unearthed near Nag Hammadi in northern Egypt in 1945, the remnants of a library used by a community of Gnostics ...

alentinianism was a prominent variety of early Christianity starting in the 2nd century CE. Some call it a form of Gnosticism. But what is Valentinianism all about? Canadian PM Carney announces ...