All kinds of literature from the early Christian era, a whole discovery of text rather like the New Testament but also very different. The term gnosticism is often used as a sort of umbrella term ...

She has published widely in the areas of Gnosticism, ancient Christianity ... but as a prominent disciple and leader of one wing of the early Christian movement that promoted women's leadership.

alentinianism was a prominent variety of early Christianity starting in the 2nd century CE. Some call it a form of Gnosticism. But what is Valentinianism all about?

Gnosticism as a theological position developed ... For a time, much of what we knew about the gnostic writings came through ...