Yet those who called gnosticism heresy were adopting--consciously or not--the viewpoint of that group of Christians who called themselves orthodox Christians. A heretic may be anyone whose outlook ...

"HERETICS" DEFINED IN RESPONSE TO PERSECUTION ... the list of acceptable teachings, the rituals. Gnosticism is a term that's etymologically connected with the word "to know." ...

Many modern scholars have come to agree that the gnōstikoi, or Christian heretics, were most active during the second and third centuries CE. However, “gnosis” and “Gnosticism” are ...

Gnosticism as a theological position developed ... in his 39th Festal Letter on Easter 367 CE: “…an invention of heretics, ...