Sentences with phrase «ancient gnostics»

This foundational void was first the site of research by the Ancient Gnostics who passed it on to H.P. Lovecraft — like Lucier, a New Englander — and from him to the most advanced of death metal bands.

The ancient Gnostics (in Ancient Greek the word...

Moreover, some ancient Gnostics, in what Jones rightly describes as their «obsession with salvation and purification,» followed a path that, while erroneous, is unlike — and superior to — the hedonism of many contemporary neo-Gnostic dualists.

But it is especially pertinent to the «Mormons and Southern Baptists [who] call themselves Christians, but like most Americans... are closer to ancient Gnostics than to early Christians.»

Such a view would be more appropriate for proponents of ancient gnostic theories, come alive again in our day, than for those who profess a biblical basis for their religion.

Ancient Gnostic Christians were a large and influential branch of the early Church who believed that the physical world was a lower, less perfect creation than the high, pure spiritual world.

I told them that to me, this sounds a lot like the ancient Gnostic and Docetic heresies which taught that Jesus wasn't fully human.

In sum, even though he was absorbed by the spiritual crisis of modern man — a crisis he traced back to the ancient gnostic movement — it can hardly be said that he viewed history in a Christian fashion, that is, as a drama of sin and redemption.

The ancient gnostic movement was characterized by a radical dualism.

Not exact matches

Both the material and the script looked authentically ancient at first glance, and though the notion of Jesus having a wife was remarkable, these «lost» Christian writings, such as the Gnostic Gospels, are full of unorthodoxies.

The Gnostic Jesus (Part One in a Two - Part Series on Ancient and Modern Gnosticism) by Douglas Groothuis: equip.org/free/DG040-1.

The Gnostic Jesus (Part One in a Two - Part Series on Ancient and Modern Gnosticism) by Douglas Groothuis: equip.org/free/DG040-1.htm 11.

But he cautions that «the comparison with the Pelagian and Gnostic heresies intends only to recall general common features, without entering into judgments on the exact nature of the ancient errors.»

There is an ancient Christian tradition (more prevalent among the Gnostics, IIRC; there's no supporting verse in Scripture) that Jesus was lame in one leg.

Repellent as Gnostic belief and practice may be, it at least bespeaks the ancient obsession with salvation and purification.

Ancient Egyptian Coptic gospel of Jesus» wife can be genuine or forged Coptic — Gnostic text, but in every case, it is the false text as the purpose to distort genuine Biblical gospels.

Although the ideas of Clement and Origen about teachers, gnostics, and angels are important for the later theories both of prelacy and the pastoral function of the monks, we must return to Rome and Carthage for the more immediately significant developments in the history of the ancient ministries of the Church.