Forbidden Faith

Scholar Richard Smoley reveals the secret history of the religious doctrines of Gnosticism in Forbidden Faith . The success of books such as Elaine Pagels's Gnostic Gospels and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code proves beyond a doubt that there is a tremendous thirst today for finding the hidden truths of Christianity—truths that may have been lost or buried by institutional religion over the last two millennia. In Forbidden Faith , Richard Smoley narrates a popular history of one such truth, the ancient