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.

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.

The Nag Hammadi texts were discovered near Nag Hammadi in Egypt. They are gnostic works that present a worldview that denies the divinity of Christ and the goodness of creation. In 1945 a startling ...

orthodoxy to one of what he called Christian atheism. During the 1980s he came to the conclusion that the word God had no objective reality and was best regarded as “a necessary myth”.

He is not shy about identifying many phenomena as being miraculous in nature. While he never outright professes a belief in God, it’s clear he rejects atheism. The mysteries of the universe and ...

Two decades ago, Sally Read was an award-winning poet, an outspoken feminist as well as a vehemently anti-Catholic atheist. Then, unexpectedly, in 2010, she converted to Catholicism. Subsequently ...