The movie and book are fiction. But anyone who took in The Da Vinci Code in theaters over the weekend might be wondering whether they had fallen asleep in Sunday School. From the big screen, viewers ...
The Gnostic Gospels; Were They Illegal? Posted: July 14, 2025 | Last updated: July 14, 2025 A common theory is that the Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of Gnostic texts, were an illegal stash of ...
The 52 texts discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt include 'secret' gospels poems and myths attributing to Jesus sayings and beliefs which are very different from the New Testament. Scholar Elaine Pagels ...
Recent gadfly theories about church council conspiracies that manipulated the New Testament into existence are bad—really bad-history. In Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, villain ...
Yesterday the world learned of a newly-discovered early Christian text that depicts Jesus as a married man. Jesus’ wife may be big news today, but striking and unusual variations on Christian faith ...
Sixty years ago this December, texts that came to be known as the Nag Hammadi Library were discovered in the Egyptian desert. The leather-bound sheets of papyrus, now housed in a Cairo museum, include ...
Just before Christmas, an article appeared in The Washington Post comparing the Star Wars prequel trilogy to the “Gnostic gospels,” such as the “Gospel of Thomas” and the “Gospel of Judas”: “Like the ...
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Just before Christmas, an article appeared in The Washington Post comparing the Star Wars prequel trilogy to the “Gnostic gospels,” such as the “Gospel of Thomas” and the “Gospel of Judas”: “Like the ...