When National Geographic unveiled the Gospel of Judas this month, the narrator in the accompanying television documentary solemnly announced: “It tells a different story. One that could challenge our ...

The discovery at Nag Hammadi began with an Arab villager whose name was Mohammed Ali going with his brothers on an ordinary errand. They saddled up their camels and they rode out from their village, a ...

SEWANEE, Tennessee – The University of the South’s School of Theology will host Professor David Brakke, the Joe R. Engle Chair of the History of Christianity and professor of history at The Ohio State ...

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?

Early Christianity was extremely diverse and often contradictory in its beliefs and practices. What do we know of the 'Christianities' that fell by the wayside? The once entrenched idea that early ...

In early 2022, a video-essay creator named Dan Olson uploaded a two-hour-long exposé to YouTube. “Line Goes Up—the Problem with NFTs” quickly became a viral sensation, accumulating nearly 9 million ...

In refuting the Gnostics, however, the bishops did preserve some accounts of their beliefs — and even their writings. Until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi, those ancient polemics were the primary ...

The beliefs of the Gnostics, an all-but-forgotten 2nd Century Christian sect, might not seem to have much relevance to the modern world – especially the imagined futures of some of our favorite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yascha Mounk’s new book “The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time” arrives at a crucial juncture for American ...