Sentences with phrase «gnostic influence»

This Gnostic influence in Christianity is what has pervaded our understanding of the Old and the New Testaments.

Paul addresses the Gnostic influences in portions of Colossians as a direct threat to Christ being our salvation and His being sufficient in all things.

They would argue that it stems more from Greek and gnostic influences than from the Bible itself.

Because it was one of the books rejected by the developing church orthodoxy and because a number of scholars today claim that Gnostic influences dominate most of Thomas, the Gospel has not caused much stir.

Not exact matches

His theory is better than the gnostic - influenced crap Augustine came up with.

Scholars who have doubted that Gnostic redeemer myths could have influenced the Gospel of John's Imagery of Jesus as the heavenly redeemer often cite European scholar Carsten Colpe as having debunked the thesis soundly in 1960.

(There are parallels to both these figures in the Gnostic myths, but if the latter influenced St. Paul in any way, they did so in a form which was already largely derived from Judaism.

Some early Christian writers, and perhaps even some New Testament writers, were influenced by what seems to us to be Gnostic terminology.

It is relatively free from extra-Christian influences; the sayings have neither a Gnostic nor a legalistic ring, the narratives do not yet exhibit the «secular» technique, the parables permit their original meaning to be recognized in spite of later «reinterpretation.»