quest for hidden knowledge. That is neo-gnosticism, and three major trends in the church today indicate it is gaining momentum: psychology, pragmatism, and mysticism. Psychology. Nothing epitomizes neo-gnosticism more than the church’s fascination with humanistic psychology. The integration of modern behavioral theory into the church has created an environment in which traditional counseling from the Bible is widely viewed as unsophisticated, naive, and even fatuous. The neo-gnostics would have us