"Judas" a window on Gnosticism“The Gospel of Judas” is a codex (ancient book) written in Coptic, which was found in Egypt by farmers in the 1970s but only recently released to the public by ...

The latest media frenzy over the Gospel of Judas reveals “the [secular] media's profound ignorance of ancient history,” says Brian St. Paul, editor of Crisis Magazine, in his April 13th e ...

Referring to the authors of these texts as Gnostic only accepts that negative judgment. But the people who wrote them didn’t think of themselves as belonging to a school called Gnosticism.

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A Gnostic is one who has gnosis (a Greek word for “knowledge”) — a visionary or mystical “secret knowledge” capable of joining the human being to the divine mystery.

The key to comprehending the Gnostic Gospels is to first understand Gnosticism, LeCompte said. The Gnostics were a Christian sect that emerged during the second century AD.

In 1979, Ms. Pagels’s The Gnostic Gospels (Random House) was a popular success that brought the Nag Hammadi texts — and the theological, social, and political issues they raised — to a wider ...

Despite such problematic passages, boosters of Gnosticism and many seekers after the "historical Jesus" often credit the Gospel of Thomas with as much authority as the canonical gospels, using it ...

Did the gnostics see themselves as being outside? The people who wrote and circulated gospels like the Gospel of Thomas certainly didn't think they were heretics.

Within Gnosticism, the Gnostic Redeemer does not do anything other than give knowledge and once he has given us knowledge, his importance ceases.