There is no evidence anywhere in the Gospels that Mary Magdalene lived a sinful or promiscuous life, but by the third century she had become fully assimilated with the unnamed woman in Luke, “a ...

Chester Theatre Company opens its 2025 season with "Magdalene," a new play by Mark St. Germain that reimagines a private ...

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 ...

“Our teacher said, ‘Before I read your book, I thought these [Gnostic] gospels were just weird.’ — and he was the Archbishop of Sweden!” says Pagels, laughing. Wonder and women ...

“Our teacher said, ‘Before I read your book, I thought these [Gnostic] gospels were just weird.’ — and he was the Archbishop of Sweden!” says Pagels, laughing. Wonder and women ...

They were either about the Gnostic Gospels or Christian antisemitism or sex and politics. This one came after I was teaching about how Christianity began for a long time, and I wanted to make it ...

Paul gives a Gnostic exposition of Adam’s fall (Rom. 5:12 ff.) and gives a Gnostic exhortation to throw off sleep and the works of darkness (Rom. 13:11–13; 1 Thess. 5:4–6), says Bultmann.