4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Augustine's 386 CE philosophical dialogue written at Cassiciacum just after his conversion — arguing against Academic skepticism (the view that certain knowledge is impossible) — and representing the convergence of Platonism and Christianity that Augustine synthesized throughout his career.
American New Testament scholar at Rice University who specializes in early Christianity, Gnosticism, and mysticism — whose work on the Gospel of Judas (challenging the National Geographic interpretation) and mystical Judaism made her a public figure in biblical studies.
A non-canonical collection of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus — discovered in Nag Hammadi Egypt in 1945 — which has no narrative framework, only sayings, and which some scholars argue preserves early independent Jesus tradition, while others read it as Gnostic theology.
American biblical scholar at Columbia who controversially claimed to have discovered the 'Secret Gospel of Mark' at Mar Saba monastery in 1958 — and whose work on Jesus the Magician and Clement of Alexandria contributed to scholarly debates about early Christian diversity.