No More Creeds: How the Gnostic Gospels Are Transforming Christianity

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The astonishing discovery of the Gnostic gospels, or the Nag Hammadi Christian texts -- a cache of ancient secret gospels and other revelations attributed to Jesus and his disciples -- has revealed a much wider range of Christian groups than had been known before. Many of these diverse groups welcomed newcomers in ways that today do not subscribe to any creed recognizable in Christian doctrine. Some historians even think that the Gospel of John was written as a response to the Gospel of Thomas, a so-called Gnostic Gospel. Although later denounced by certain leaders as 'heretics,' many of these Christians saw themselves as not so much believers, but as seekers, people who 'seek for God.' Before discovering these heretics' texts, people only knew what 'their enemies had said.'
-- Elizabeth Dwoskin

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