This week we shall consider “Gnosticism,” a movement which was similar in some ways to Christianity but in other ways very ...

Scholars disagree on whether Gnosticism evolved out of ancient Judaism, Christianity, or is better identified with other salvation sects from the Roman world. It may have been a set of beliefs ...

King is Professor of New Testament Studies and the History of Ancient Christianity at Harvard University in the Divinity School. She has published widely in the areas of Gnosticism, ancient ...

But it is an idea with ancient roots. Gnostics, who flourished in the second and third centuries, taught the separation of body and soul and that being male or female gets in the way of salvation. In ...

but more recent scholars have viewed Gnosticism as a world-wide syncretistic movement that drew from many ancient religions. Bultmann and others argue that Gnosticism, widespread before the rise ...

other philosophical and religious movements of the ancient Mediterranean, including Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and Manichaeism; and modern continental philosophy and theology, especially as they ...

Pahlevani is an Iranian martial art that combines elements of Islam, Gnosticism and ancient Persian beliefs. It describes a ritual collection of gymnastic and callisthenic movements performed by ten ...