Sentences with phrase «gnostic christians»

Meeks contended that the androgynous concept received expanded — even «luxuriant» — treatment from Gnostic Christians, some of whom developed the sacrament of the bridegroom chamber to reunite the two halves in the believer.

Suggesting in an interview that the contemporary ecumenical mood be extended back to the «losers» of the early centuries, the Gnostic Christians, he concluded: «I would hope we could open minds to a big hunk of early Christianity and rethink our conceptions of what was «heresy» and «orthodoxy.»»

Her conclusion is that Gnostic Christians merely expanded on traditions once shared widely.

I'm sure in retrospect the Roman Christian church realized it was a bad PR move to kill off fellow Gnostic Christians even though technically they were heretics.

In fact, many Gnostic Christians could not reconcile the idea of Jesus being fully God and fully man because they believed the supreme spiritual Being could not take on a physical identity without defiling His holiness.

Many Gnostic Christians believed that, because of his divine origins, Jesus did not suffer on the cross, that the heavens were populated by all sorts of entities including a lower Creator God and a superior God of Light — and that knowledge of one's ultimate origins from the latter was the key to salvation.

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.

The early Gnostic Christians use to drink sperm and treat it like communion wine.

Without that detail, gnostic Christians of the second century would never have cast her as the enlightened companion of the Savior.

It was they, not the Marcionite or gnostic Christians, who developed a communal life strong enough to become the great majority and win the Empire, despite their lack of social, economic, intellectual, political or military power.

They have been stirred together in a mortar, and the two elements have completely neutralized each other in a compound which is neither history nor interpretation, but mystical rhapsody and poetry of devotion, not so much a theology as a half - Gnostic Christian theosophy — history turned inside out in order to reveal its inner meaning, but ceasing to be history in the process.

The female side of the deity and the prominence of women disciples in Gnostic Christian writings should interest feminist theologians regarding a discarded side of early Christianity.

Sunken - place theology is a theology that separates the key matters of the soul from the equally important matters of the body, and in America it privileges a soul - obsessed gnostic Christian whiteness over a biblical Christian witness.

Not exact matches

At the end, having agonized through much of the poem over the questions posed by his gnostic favorites, he comes back much more strongly to a defense of the categories of Christian worship.

The first I should like to call the Gnostic model, the other the Christian model.

Moreover, after Christ death, there were several competing groups of Christians each with their own version of Chrisitanity... (Much like today lol) Such as the gnostic gospels, and others that were destroyed by order of Roman emperors....

These three poems may help us to understand Milosz's ultimate message in the Treatise — namely, his choice to «sing with them,» his fellow Christians, despite the fact that he is naturally a skeptic, and despite his lengthy grappling with gnostic theories.

These terms have been watered down, and most (not all) people equate them as follows: - Most Christian / Muslim / Hindu / Pagan = a Gnostic Theist = Know of god's existence / non-existence, and believe in god.

I would argue that many if not most people who call themselves Christians are gnostic theists, while most people who call themselves atheists are agnostic atheists.

this web site does nt really put christians in a good light as far as acceptance of the 2nd largest religion... islam... and that category is shared with catholics, restorationists, gnostics and episcopalians... so do nt flatter your self too much.

This has devolved into a shorthand: I am a Christian / Muslim / Pagan / Hindu et al (Most times means: I am a gnostic theist); I am an atheist (Most time means: I am an agnostic atheist); I am agnostic (Most times means: I am an agnostic theist).

The Cages and the Falstaffs of the world are least likely to know this, but true - believing Gnostics, an avant - garde elite if there ever was one, have always known it and have always known too how to move into and stake out claims in Christian and Jewish territory.

His books include: The Powers that Be: Theology for a New Millenium (1999), Homosexuality and Christian Faith (1999), and Cracking the Gnostic Code (1993).

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.

Understanding the gnostic violence to the human body, what can be made of the numerous ascetics of the Christian Church?

The early Christian Gnostics had gone further and said, «If you fast, you bring sin upon yourselves.»

This view is a little too mystical (or maybe even Gnostic) for most Christians, and yet it can not be proven or disproven from the text any more than the traditional view that God killed an animal to make clothes for Adam and Eve.

In our Gnostic culture, which devalues the givenness of things and the revelatory power built into that givenness, this Franciscan reminder to twenty - first - century Christians is of crucial importance.

The Gnostics completely turn what Christians believe about Satan on its head, and I think there is real danger in digging into the fall of Satan too hard.

I believe they would see the former as corrupted with certain gnostic beliefs that slander God's character and make Him out to be a liar, while the latter would be seen as so corrupted by paganism that it basically boils down to rude idolatry sprinkled with certain Christian beliefs.

This is especially true when Christians live nobly, courageously, and compassionately in service to those who have been most deeply wounded by the Gnostic cultural tsunami and its personally lethal effects.

The original Christian cosmovital notion of the sacred was attacked by «orphic and gnostic dualism» before it could create a culture equal to itself.

Dear Nakedpastor; I am a former Christian Gnostic Pastor.

The traditional Christian message is probably far from the truth, and the more one learns about the Gnostic Gospels, the more one begins to feel this has to be the case.

Or, one could take a more Gnostic approach and turn the whole story round on Yahweh, indicting him, as did early Christian ministers like Valentinus.

It is also interesting that there were Gnostic women priests and may have been a Gnostic woman bishop, had Tertullian not introduced traditional mysogyny into the early Christian church.

In Thomas the Jewish and Christian doctrine of election is pushed to its Gnostic extreme.

The aim of the author was to establish the doctrine that marriage is sinful and Christians ought to abstain from it, and therefore the book was of Gnostic origin.

The concept of nature as evil and alien to humanity began basically in late apocalyptic and gnostic thought in the Christian era.

Like Marcion, a Christian heretic excommunicated in the second century, the Gnostics repudiated the depiction of God in the Hebrew Scriptures, beginning with the affirmation in Genesis 1 that the whole creation of earth and the heavens is good.

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.»

There is nothing Baptist about these Baptists, thinks Bloom, and maybe little that is Christian, but much that is Gnostic.

The thesis propounded by this self - described sometimes gnostic and sometimes agnostic Jew is that the American religion is not Protestant or Christian but Ggnostic and sometimes agnostic Jew is that the American religion is not Protestant or Christian but GnosticGnostic.

These gnostic and discarnate forms of Christianity are especially evident in the sappiness of what passes as contemporary Christian culture.

Bloom declares that the American religion is not Protestant or Christian but Gnostic, that even most American Methodists, Roman Catholics, and even Jews and Muslims are more Gnostic than normative in their deepest and unwariest beliefs.

If Mormonism is OK, why not recognize Coptics, Gnostics, Jews and Islamists as equals to American Christians?

If any Christians are currently promoting a «gnostic split of soul and body,» it is those on the left who seem satisfied with social programs that feed the body but starve the soul and, even worse, turn a blind eye to growing efforts by the government to discriminate against faith - based charities that are serious about ministering to the whole person.

Adherents of the new Christian sects, of which there were many competing ones, e.g., Ebonites, Gnostics, etc., would have been familiar with the Serapis and likely would not have wanted their godman to seem any less impressive than the gods of the Serapis and other religions of the time, so there would have been a need for a miraculous birth story and other miracle stories for their godman, as well.

As a Christian Gnostic, I don't have a hard time with this cartoon at all; If we read the Gospels carefully, when Jesus asked that He be believed in, it's not in the modern connotation of «I believe in Santa Claus», but in the first century idiomatic, «Trust me enough to emulate me through my teachings».

1) The Greek Gnostic way (which, I admit, many Christians believe in actually) which is, that God has no limits.