- Title: Gnostics: Knowledge Of The Heart
- Date: 3rd January 1990
- Summary: IN 1945 AN EGYPTIAN PEASANT DISCOVERED A COLLECTION OF EARLY CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURE S - THE NAG HAMMADI CODICES, WHICH REVEALED THE EXISTENCE OF A GNOSTIC VERSION O F GNOSIS, THE GREEK WORD FOR KNOWLEDGE-FELT THAT THEY COULD KNOW GOD, AND THEIR OWN SOUL, GOING A STEP BEYOND FAITH.THEIR MESSAGE, AND THE WORDS OF THEIR 'GNOST IC GOSPELS', WERE BURIED IN THE SAND OF THE EGYPTIAN DESERT.SOME SCHOLARS NOW BE LIEVE THESE SCRIPTURES TO BE JUST AS AUTHENTIC, OR MORE SO, THAN THE BOOKS WE KN OW AS THE NEW TESTAMENT 'GNOSTICS'TELLS THE REMARKABLE STORY - FOR THE FIRST TIM E-OF THIS ALTERNATIVE, LOST VERSION OF CHRISTIANITY.
- Description:DOCUMENTARY SERIES OF THREE PROGRAMMES DEALING WITH THE GNOSTICS AND THE GRAND HERESIES
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Border Television PLC
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:03/01/1990
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s