When a 17-year-old presents a collection of poems titled "Gnostic Ruminations”, one is forced to put your thinking hat before ...
A common theory is that the Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of Gnostic texts, were an illegal stash of books hidden from Orthodox Christian authorities. But recent scholarship has called this ...
Two high-profile author events are coming to Decatur ― a festival of women writers and a conversation between two brilliant thinkers on the topic of Christianity.
Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a ...
I randomly open La sposa mistica, an anthology published in the Millenni Einaudi series that bears the name of Giulio Busi on ...
Similarly, Buddhist goma fire ceremonies involve priests burning wooden sticks in sacred flames to symbolize the eradication of ignorance and desire. Rengoku’s own techniques reflect this duality: His ...
Even encountering African Christian communities, Europeans labeled local practices as heretical, justifying colonization and ...