5:14). The same words and formulas often occur in both the New Testament and the Gnostic library, but the religions they represent belong to different worlds. The publication of each new Gnostic ...

Gnosticism was a religious and philosophical movement that taught the existence of secret knowledge, which could benefit few people who managed to obtain it. Scholars disagree on whether ...

Even so, ideas that we associate with Eastern religions emerged in the first century through the gnostic movement in the West, but they were suppressed and condemned by polemicists like Irenaeus.

The first, more a movement and a climate of thought than a coherent religious system, is represented by Gnosticism and the mystery religions. It is also represented by the substratum of magic that ...

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 ...