Third, orthodox Christians believe that Jesus is Lord and Son of God in a unique way: he remains forever distinct from the rest of humanity whom he came to save. Yet the gnostic Gospel of Thomas ...

A common theory is that the Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of Gnostic texts, were an illegal stash of books hidden from Orthodox Christian authorities. But recent scholarship has called this ...

For the purpose of this article, our focus will be on Christian Gnosticism specifically, and how this belief system differed (and opposed) early Orthodox Christian views of salvation. The ...