Near the nexus of Hillhurst Avenue and Sunset and Hollywood boulevards, Bishop Stephan Hoeller has presided since 1977 at Ecclesia Gnostica, the tiny, incense-infused chapel of the Gnostic Society.
ROCK ISLAND -- People curious about a church described as ''Catholic on the outside and Buddhist on the inside'' can get a close look March 5-7. The Alexandrian Gnostic Church, founded three years ago ...
Gnosticism, the religious rival that lost out to orthodox Christianity in ancient times, has become fashionable again thanks to Dan Brown's huge-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code," along with the ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... People love a mystery and, these days, Jesus is the biggest mystery of all. “The Da Vinci Code” has turned many into spiritual detectives, on the hunt for ...
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 ...
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?