During the last 40 years German scholars, notably Rudolph Bultmann, have claimed that New Testament writers, especially in their understanding of Jesus Christ, depended largely upon Gnostic myths.

In the case of Christian Gnosticism, this savior is Jesus, but not in the way that mainstream Christianity views him. Gnostics view Jesus as a figure who is a direct emanation of the Supreme Being ...

But some of the gnostics who wrote these gospels contradict this: self-knowledge is knowledge of God; the self and the divine are identical. Second, the "living Jesus" of these texts speaks of ...

The term “gnostikoi” (from a root word meaning “knowledge-supplying”) was first used by Irenaeus of Lyons to describe a ...