Abstract
The early Christian communities formed the diverse images of Christ according to their cultural backgrounds in competing conditions among them. However, while the early Catholic church had been developed and structured as an institution with an organized ministry and sacraments, many communities had disappeared from the historical stage. The Gnostic Christianity was one of a variety of religious movements which disappeared. It was not until the Nag Hammadi Library recently came to provide primary source documents for the study of ancient Gnostic movements that scholars had been entirely dependent upon the descriptions of the Gnostics by the church fathers. Though the characteristic beliefs of the Gnostic Christianity are very difficult to systematize, it is possible to find out in some clearly gnostic texts the ideas that could be acquired from the standard description of the Gnostic beliefs. As the Gnostic Christians caused the orthodoxy church to arrange its doctrine, it is expected that their beliefs may direct today’s Christians to a deep spirituality in order to overcome lots of challenging postmodern situations.
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