According to Dan Brown’s book The Da Vinci Code the Gnostics were a bunch of right-on feminist liberals who preserved the secret original Gospel in which Jesus and Mary Magdalen got it together, that she was the embodiment of the Divine Feminine, and that all of this is contained in the Gnostic Gospels, hidden until 1945 until discovered at Nag Hammadi. Yeah, right.
Find out who the Gnostics were, why they were people of their time, their lasting influence on the theology, structure and spirituality of the Christian Church. Oh… and whether Jesus ever used the toilet.
All this awaits you in the first of the new series of The Bluffer’s Guide to Heresy. 7.30pm, Wednesday night at the Bristol Folk House in Park Street. Or podcast later on this website.
Now what’s the phone number of the Metatron…