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.

Gnostics believed they were the elect, spiritual ones who alone had the "seed" of the divine trapped inside their earthly bodies. Salvation for them meant escape from the material world.

Just because I like this kind of email: Hi Jonah- From the point of view of Christians, the Jews are indeed the chosen people, and Gnostics hate that because they hate history. History is free ...

I come to praise, a little, rather than to just bury the siblings’ strange one-hit career.

Malcom Kyeyune The New Gnostics From neopaganism to cryptocurrency cults, the Internet today is full of strange quasi-faiths.

The secret world of the new Gnostics This week, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code became Britain's bestselling novel. But its success is just the latest triumph for an obscure, 2,000-year-old ...

alentinianism was a prominent variety of early Christianity starting in the 2nd century CE. Some call it a form of Gnosticism. But what is Valentinianism all about?

“Gnostics were inclined in this direction for a long, long time,” said Bishop Stephan Hoeller, of the Gnostic Society, who also leads a congregation in Los Angeles. The society was founded in ...