This book may well be the most comprehensive collection of Gnostic materials ever gathered in one volume. After a dry introduction to current debates about gnosticism (by Meyer) and a luminous, ...

The discovery at Nag Hammadi began with an Arab villager whose name was Mohammed Ali going with his brothers on an ordinary errand. They saddled up their camels and they rode out from their village, a ...

I write a lot about alternative non-canonical scriptures, and the diverse Christianities they represent. One idea I challenge regularly goes something like this: for long centuries, Christians ...

If you read through the early Christian texts known as the Gnostic Gospels, you’ll find there are two primary themes that appear again and again. The first is the idea that the kingdom of God is not ...

The discovery of the Nag Hammadi collection brought ancient Gnostic writings to light. In 1945 an Arab peasant named Muhammed Ali and his brothers discovered a jar at the base of a cliff near the town ...

All Christians and scholars of early Christianity should welcome the recent publication of the Gospel of Judas. With some dissension, the general scholarly consensus so far runs like this: the Gospel ...

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 ...

The movie and book are fiction. But anyone who took in The Da Vinci Code in theaters over the weekend might be wondering whether they had fallen asleep in Sunday School. From the big screen, viewers ...

What a great miracle is Man, O Asclepius, a being worthy of reverence and honor. For he passes into the nature of a god as though he were himself a god. Admittedly, we listened to his story with some ...

All Christians and scholars of early Christianity should welcome the recent publication of the Gospel of Judas. With some dissension, the general scholarly consensus so far runs like this: the Gospel ...