gnostic

It’s a fitting creation story for our age, with a sort of Gnostic, fallen-world inflection: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was a mistake.

I’ve spent years reading books about Christianity including about the Gnostic Gospels.

Bloom called himself an “unbelieving Jew of strong Gnostic tendencies”.

Perhaps, as the Gnostic Gospels suggest, the first step is clear-eyed humility.

Feeling confused and overwhelmed, she turned to the New Testament, the Gnostic gospels of the Nag Hammadi library and Buddhism.