When the Nag Hammadi codices were discovered in Egypt in 1945, the world gained access to a body of writings that challenged some of the most deeply rooted assumptions in Western religion. Among these ...

This week your professor continues a very brief introduction into the early rivals of Christianity. We know of a great many religious cults which existed in ancient times, most of which have vanished ...

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 theory ...

I was assigned to build my own religion. And sometimes I get carried away with my projects. <BR>This is what I've outlined so far, and I want to flesh it out and create a mythology and "universe" for ...

The Mandaeans are one of the world’s oldest surviving religious groups, with roots in ancient Gnostic traditions. Centered around the veneration of John the Baptist and a dualistic cosmology of light ...