When National Geographic unveiled the Gospel of Judas this month, the narrator in the accompanying television documentary solemnly announced: “It tells a different story. One that could challenge our ...

SEWANEE, Tennessee – The University of the South’s School of Theology will host Professor David Brakke, the Joe R. Engle Chair of the History of Christianity and professor of history at The Ohio State ...

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 ...

Jonathan Kirsch is the author of, most recently, "A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization." GNOSTICISM is a label ...

In refuting the Gnostics, however, the bishops did preserve some accounts of their beliefs — and even their writings. Until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi, those ancient polemics were the primary ...

Early Christianity was extremely diverse and often contradictory in its beliefs and practices. What do we know of the 'Christianities' that fell by the wayside? The once entrenched idea that early ...

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 ...

Similarity of ancient and new speculation. Now Christianity, however understood or misunderstood, has indeed posed obstacles to God’s will for man, and orthodoxy should be reminded of its need to ...