First up will be selections from the New Testament and the Gnostic Gospels, with commentary by Elaine Pagels, professor of religious history at Princeton University. But Kaag said they’re ...

Who is responsible for the birth of Christianity? As with any major phenomenon, the answer is complex. Christianity developed ...

"[Jesus Seminar advocates] tend to say our primary and most important source of Jesus has not been canonical gospel in the New Testament, but rather extra biblical sources like the Gnostic gospels, ...

New books from religion publishers wrestle with who is—or should be—shaping government, culture, and society today.

Gospel of John. Believed ... in an age of religious disillusionment is people can believe in a kind of gnostic cosmology where the world was made, there is a God, but the God is bad, or is ...

A powerful Gospel text for the Real Presence of Christ ... St. Ignatius of Antioch warned the Smyrnaeans about the Docetes - gnostic heretics: They (the Docetes) have no care for love, no thought ...

Indeed, from Gnosticism came the idea that Jesus was ... Christian in the mythical view of the world as such.” The real gospel, which even the modern man needs, can be obtained by reinterpreting ...