This week your professor continues a very brief introduction into the early rivals of Christianity. We know of a great many religious cults which existed in ancient times, most of which have vanished ...

Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity continue to attract attention centuries after being labeled heretical. These movements promised secret knowledge, personal transformation, and spiritual depth ...

The release in 1992 of celebrity literary critic Harold Bloom’s The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation was less than the smashing success that both the author and Simon & ...

The other week I read a quaint little communique that the publishers of a projected multi-volume religious encyclopedia had sent out to authors and editors. “It appears to us impossible,” said the ...