The term “gnostikoi” (from a root word meaning “knowledge-supplying”) was first used by Irenaeus of Lyons to describe a theological development in …
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Heresies and Heretics in Christianity
These Christian splinter groups were persecuted and damned for their unique understanding of the Christian faith.
Nestorianism is an alternate Biblical viewpoint that Jesus Christ is not the Son of God, but is united with the Son (as the second Person of the …
Arius was a Catholic priest from Cyrenaica, a part of modern-day Libya in mid-200s CE. While little is known of his personal history, his greatest …
Arriving in the Languedoc region of southern France as early as the 11th century, Cathars (deriving from the Greek Katharoi, meaning ‘pure ones’) were …
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is notoriously difficult to classify. He was an Italian philosopher, astronomer, magician, mathematician and many other …
