It has been 30 years since the cultural historian Christopher Lasch’s “Gnosticism, Ancient and Modern: The Religion of the Future?” appeared in the quarterly magazine Salmagundi.

FINDING MY RELIGION / Tau Malachi, a Sophian Gnostic bishop, talks about Gnosticism and 'The Da Vinci Code' By David Ian Miller, Special to SF Gate May 22, 2006.

The Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion Princeton University. Gnostic texts of nag hammadi. ... Gnosticism is a term that's etymologically connected with the word "to know." ...

Identical esoteric ideas suf-fuse the novels, the movies, the lodges, the “alternative spirituality” and the cloning “atheistic religion,” and this ideological soil has a name — Gnosticism.

Explore the mystical world of Gnostic Christianity, where salvation comes through secret knowledge (gnosis), the material world is seen as a flawed creation, and the true God is beyond comprehension.

Distinguished scholar of Christianity Elaine Pagels sets out to explain why religion is still around today, through the lens of her lived tragedies — the deaths of her son and husband 30 years ago.

Gnosticism is the most radical religion I know, because it is the only one that entertains the idea that God is evil -- and wants us all to rebel against his bullying, rapacious, jealous rule.

Religion scholars Elaine Pagels and Karen King's new book, Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity, interprets and translates the recently discovered gnostic gospel of ...

Gnosticism is a term that's etymologically connected with the word "to know." It has the same root in English, "kno" is related to "gno" the Greek word for gnosis. And Gnostics were people who ...