SYLLABUS  2012

Introduction 

What is Gnosis 

What is Gnosticism 

How we got acquainted with Gnosticism 

     Nag Hammadi Story 

Gnostic Teachings 

     Cosmos - God - Human Being - Salvation

Gnosticism and Christianity

    Valentinus 

    Revelation in Gnosticism 

    Gnostic Gospels 

Gnosis: Self-Knowledge, Knowledge of God       

    Jesus a Gnostic? - Paul a Gnostic?

How/Why Gnosticism got lost 

    How Orthodoxy reported on the Gnostics 

Answering the Question 

     Is the Loss of Gnosticism a Loss for Christianity