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 ...

This definition of Gnosticism was formulated mostly by its enemies. Until the 1940s, almost everything scholars knew about Gnostics came from the writings of early Christian bishops such as Irenaeus ...

In this last entry for the Register on the great Father of the Church, St. Irenaeus, I hope to describe the primary heresy that he was combatting — Gnosticism. However, this is not so easy! Why?

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 ...

Lagos — The Gnostic gospels of Mary Magdalene was written around 2nd century and that of Philip in 3rd century, that is, more than 100 years after the authentic Gospel of St. John was written. Suffice ...