↑ ghi chú: khái niệm tiếng Latinh có gốc từ tiếng Hy Lạp, có trong một số trường phái triết học, đề cập tới đấng tác tạo đảm trách việc chế tác và duy trì vũ trụ vật chất nhưng chỉ là thứ đẳng thần, không phải là vị thần tối cao
↑ On the complexity of gnosticism, see Larry W. Hurtado (2005). Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. tr. 519–561.
↑ John Hinnel (1997). The Penguin Dictionary of Religion. Penguin Books UK.
↑ Tobias Churton (2005). Gnostic Philosophy: From Ancient Persia to Modern Times. Inner Traditions, VA USA. ISBN978-159477-035-7.
↑ Karen L. King, What is Gnosticism? (2005) "Bousset held that Gnosticism was a pre-Christian religion, existing alongside of Christianity. It was an Oriental product, anti-Jewish and un-Hellenic... "
↑ James M. Robinson, one of the chief scholars on Gnosticism said at the 1978 International Conference on Gnosticism at Yale "At this stage we have not found any Gnostic texts that clearly antedate the origin of Christianity." cited in Edwin Yamauchi, "Pre-Christian Gnosticism, the New Testament and Nag Hammadi in recent debate," in Themelios 10.1 (Sept 1984): 22–27.
↑ To this end Paul Trebilco cites the following in his article "Christian Communities In Western Asia Minor Into The Early Second Century: Ignatius And Others As Witnesses Against Bauer" in JETS 49.1: E.M. Yamauchi, "Gnosticism and Early Christianity," in W. E. Helleman biên tập (1994). Hellenization Revisited: Shaping a Christian Response Within the Greco-Roman World. University Press of America. tr. 38. ; Karen L. King (2003). What is Gnosticism?. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. tr. 175. ; C. Markschies (2003). Gnosis: An Introduction. London: T&T Clark. tr. 67–69. ; cf. H. Koester (1982). Introduction to the New Testament, Vol 2: History and Literature of Early Christianity. Walter de Gruyter. tr. 286. ; For discussions of "Gnosticism" see Yamauchi, "Gnosticism" 29–61; M. A. Williams (1996). Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category. Princeton University Press. ; Gerd Theissen (1999). A Theory of Primitive Christian Religion. London: SCM Press. tr. 231–39. .
