Sentences with phrase «gnostic groups»

It was a belief held by several of the gnostic groups, but not by the church.

The Cathari owed their origin to contacts with another Gnostic group the Bogomili of Bulgaria with whom the Crusades had brought them in contact.

Not exact matches

For example, in the 1st century C.E., a group of people called the Gnostics (from the Greek word gno ′ sis, meaning «knowledge») claimed superior knowledge through secret revelation and boasted that they were the «correctors of the apostles.»

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....

He also frequently noted that «gnostic,» as he used the term, referred to a general orientation, not to specific historical groups or their teachings.

Few of the Church Fathers even mention it, and it seems that the only group that loved John as much as the evangelicals now do were the gnostics, and we know what the early Church did to them.

The only groups within Christian history that are not evangelical at bottom are those who deny apostolic Christianity or those who so thoroughly reinterpret it through their conceptual grid (i.e., Gnostics, anti-supernatural liberals) that it ceases to retain integrity with apostolic intent.