(The Conversation) — Mandaeans are followers of ancient Gnostic religion, whose traditional homeland was the region of Iraq and Iran. Today, this small minority lives in many parts of the world, ...

What do Harry Potter, the Star Wars series, The Matrix, Masonry, New Age and the Raelian cult, which claims to have cloned the first baby, have in common? Their ideological soil. Identical esoteric ...

James M. Robinson, a prominent scholar of the Gospel source known as “Q” and of Gnosticism, died March 22 at age 91. He taught at the school now named the Claremont School of Theology from 1958 until ...

“The whole world groaned, and was astonished to find itself Arian.” — St. Jerome. Now the whole world groans, and is astonished to find itself Gnostic. Over on my subscriber-only Substack (become a ...

The things Neo-Gnostic seekers find lacking in Christianity-experiential insight, mysticism, a direct link to God-are already there I can’t be the only Christian reading Beyond Belief, Elaine Pagels’ ...

When Oscar Cullman announced the discovery of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas (CHRISTIANITY TODAY, April 19, 1959, issue), popular newspapers and magazines spread sensational reports of the ...

It looks like maverick Villanova theologian Katie Grimes has some interesting company on the theology faculty at the Catholic university. Sister Ilia Delio, a Franciscan nun, has been awarded an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gnostic religions view the material world as the product of a mistake in the heavenly realm, the creation of one or more inferior ...