Sentences with phrase «gnostic dualism»

This sounds somewhat like Gnostic Dualism.

What you are saying sounds a lot like Gnostic dualism that was condemned by many in the early church.

There were people in John's day who taught a form of Gnostic dualism which taught that some sin came as a result of being born of God.

Briefly, Gnostic dualism is the idea that the universe is divided into two sides, the physical and the spiritual, and the physical side is mostly bad while the spiritual side is mostly good.

The basic problem with Gnostic dualism is that it severs people and issues into two.

We will take creation and incarnation themes seriously, and reject Gnostic dualism that denigrates the material and terrestrial aspects of life.

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

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This dualism enters deeply into Paul's essentially Gnostic view of the world.

For some this has meant a more and more complete determinism and naturalism, for others a return to Gnostic ideas of dualism or early Protestant emphases on original sin.

The ancient gnostic movement was characterized by a radical dualism.