This week we shall consider “Gnosticism,” a movement which was similar in some ways to Christianity but in other ways very different. Readers should be aware the term Gnosticism refers to “knowledge” ...

Gnosticism was a religious and philosophical ... From among the Aeons, there emerged a powerful being called the Demiurge, who was responsible for creating the material world which we know.

Gnosticism for Beginners The lens of Gnosticism interprets the gospel story in a certain way. The Jewish deity is seen as the bad creator, the Demiurge who is surpassed by the messianic Jesus.

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 ...

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 ...

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