Gnosticism: From Nag Hammadi to the Gospel of Judas

Discover the mysteries of Gnosticism-its worldview, rituals, and sacred texts-and reveal its remarkable impact on western religious history.

Topics Covered:

• 1: Rediscovering Gnosis
• 2: Who Were the Gnostics?
• 3: God in Gnostic Myth
• 4: Gnosticism on Creation, Sin, and Salvation
• 5: Judas as a Gnostic Tragic Hero
• 6: Gnostic Bible Stories
• 7: Gnosticism's Ritual Pathway to God
• 8: The Feminine in Gnostic Myth
• 9: The Gospel of Thomas's Cryptic Sayings
• 10: The Gospel of Thomas on Reunifying the Self
• 11: Valentinus, Great Preacher of Gnosis
• 12: God and Creation in Valentinian Myth
• 13: "Becoming Male" through Valentinian Ritual
• 14: Valentinian Views on Christian Theology
• 15: Mary Magdalene as an Apostle of Gnosis
• 16: Competing Revelations from Christ
• 17: The Invention of Heresy
• 18: Making Gnosis Orthodox
• 19: Gnosticism and Judaism
• 20: Gnosis without Christ
• 21: The Mythology of Manichaeism
• 22: Augustine on Manichaeism and Original Sin
• 23: Gnostic Traces in Western Religions
• 24: "Gnosticism" in the Modern Imagination