Category: Gnosticism
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Forbidden Gospels, the Gnostic Jesus, and Dr. James Charlesworth
Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by world-renowned biblical scholar Dr. James Charlesworth, Professor of NT Language and Literature at Princeton. Charlesworth was joined by Dr. Lee McDonald (Acadia Divinity College) at the beautiful Lanier Theological Library for an evening of discussions around the Apocrypha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the canonization process,…
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Audio Interview: A Discussion on My Book, and on Pagan and Gnostic Influences on Orthodox Theology
This week I joined Sean Finnegan again for another interview on the excellent Restitutio podcast. In this interview, Finnegan and I discuss my new book, The God of Jesus in Light of Christian Dogma. You’ll hear about the books’ content and fundamental arguments, and a conversation on how historical pagan and Gnostic thinking influenced the development of orthodox…
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Plotinus Among the Gnostics: The Neoplatonic Trinity in the Late Third Century
Most Christians today seem woefully unaware of the important religious interchange which gave rise to their most beloved church doctrines. Hardly noticed are the historians who have challenged the common, whitewashed Church history perpetuated by mainstream evangelicalism, which has ever sought to paint such ecclesiastical standards at the doctrine of the Trinity (or at least…
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The Secret of Nag Hammadi: An Introduction
Mohammed Ali al-Samman and his brothers had approached the man while he slept. Their mother had told them to make sure their mattocks were sharp: their target was the son of a local sheriff, and they needed to work quickly. Without a sound, they tore Ahmad Hawara limb from limb. They ripped out his heart,…
Kegan Chandler, PhD 