The church is bursting at the seams with a fresh vigor for aligning our faith with how we use money — especially how we ...

This week we shall consider “Gnosticism,” a movement which was similar in some ways to Christianity but in other ways very different. Readers should be aware the term Gnosticism refers to “knowledge” ...

Scholars disagree on whether Gnosticism evolved out of ancient Judaism, Christianity, or is better identified with other salvation sects from the Roman world. It may have been a set of beliefs ...

but more recent scholars have viewed Gnosticism as a world-wide syncretistic movement that drew from many ancient religions. Bultmann and others argue that Gnosticism, widespread before the rise ...

They are gnostic works that present a worldview that denies the divinity of Christ and the goodness of creation. In 1945 a startling discovery was made by a farmer in a cave in Egypt. This discovery ...

Today, his understanding of God, the world, and salvation seems to be that of a theosophist or a neo-gnostic -- though he continues to ... such as the magisterial three volume Oxford Encyclopedia of ...