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”.

But well over 40 of them were completely unknown until the discovery in Upper Egypt of the Gnostic library containing the Gospel of Thomas and 43 other apocryphal writings. What has the study of ...

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 ...

The closest I ever came to considering atheism was as an undergraduate at Brigham Young University, having read almost the entire oeuvre of existentialist Albert Camus over the course of one semester.

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 ...