Apocryphal Texts

Gnosticism. The word is often thrown out in theological debates like a smoke bomb—meant to discredit or dismiss. It’s used to label strange, esoteric beliefs or obscure sects clinging to long-lost “gospels” like The Gospel of Thomas or The Gospel of Mary. We tend to think of it as ancient and irrelevant—a problem for early Church fathers, not for us. But what if Gnosticism never really went away? What if its most potent ideas simply slipped into the mainstream—so quietly and subtly that we … [Read more...] about The Gnostic Ghost in the Modern Church