Esotericism is the search for an absolute but hidden knowledge accessed through mystical
vision, the mediation of higher beings, or personal experience. In Western cultural history …

Philo was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who left behind one of the richest bodies of work
from antiquity, yet his personality and intellectual development have remained a riddle …

For 1,600 years its message lay hidden. When the bound papyrus pages of this lost gospel
finally reached scholars who could unlock its meaning, they were astounded. Here was a …

I thought. That is how I read the Gospel of Thomas for the first time, in the opening pages of
The Other Gospels. As I read this gospel, I encountered a Jesus who impressed me, a Jesus …

For the first time a noted historian of Christianity explores the full story of the emergence and
development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centuries. The means by which Mary …

IN ADAM'S FALL Few doctrines of Christian teaching are more controversial than original
sin. For how is it possible to affirm the universality of sin without losing sight of the distinct …

In the second century, Platonist and Judeo-Christian thought were sufficiently friendly that a
Greek philosopher could declare," What is Plato but Moses speaking Greek?" Four hundred …

Page 1 Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking Page 2 Nag Hammadi and Manichaean
Studies Editors Johannes van Oort & Einar Thomassen Editorial Board AD DeConick—W.-P …

Out of 'decent respect for the opinion of others', my monograph Christ's Resurrection in Early
Christianity (2011), and its then preliminary hypothesis of the Making of the New Testament …

What are the roles of canon and community in the understanding and articulation of
Christian doctrine? Should the church be the doctrinal arbiter in the twenty-first century? In …