From The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels Vintage Books, New York: 1979 pp. xiii-xxiii In December 1945 an Arab peasant made an astonishing archeological discovery in Upper Egypt. Rumors obscured ...

or theology inconsistent with commonly accepted books. For a time, much of what we knew about the gnostic writings came ...

Some recent books leave the impression that there were no shared definitions upon which most churches agreed. But do esoteric Gnostic texts or lost gospels mean that early Christians shared no ...

In an enormous book called "Against Heresies" in which he outlined all the difficulties, particularly, he said, many of these heretics decried the created order. They thought the material world ...

By Alexandra Alter Two new books by psychologists explore the roots of group identity, arguing that it is natural and potentially useful — even in polarized times. By Jennifer Szalai In “Don ...

Meanwhile he has co-written “We Are Free, You & Me,” an illustrated book for kids. Two new books by psychologists explore the roots of group identity, arguing that it is natural and ...

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Yascha Mounk’s new book “The Identity Trap ... one that mirrors a larger ideological shift, which I’ll call “gnostic liberalism.” This mutation within liberal thought has reshaped ...

Yascha Mounk’s new book “The Identity Trap ... one that mirrors a larger ideological shift, which I’ll call “gnostic ...