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Christian History Magazine—Issue 96: The Gnostic Hunger for Secret Knowledge is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Gnostics called themselves “enlightened.” The early church called them heretics. In recent years the early church has become a subject of public debate and an enormous amount of confusion. Gone are the days when the average Christian can get away with not knowing about the Gnostics, the early church’s Rule of Faith, or how the biblical canon developed. In this issue the editors lay out the...

Gnostic interpretation of Scripture, therefore, often made the villains into heroes and the heroes into villains. For example, Eve and the serpent in the garden were the ones really in touch with the knowledge of the ultimate God; the inferior creator misled humanity. (In fact, some Gnostic groups were known as the Naassenes or Ophites, from the Hebrew and Greek words for “serpent.”) The 20th-century classics scholar Arthur Darby Nock once quipped that all one needed to do to create Gnosticism was
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