Sentences with phrase «gnostic view»

It's actually a very Gnostic view of Jesus an anti-material view, which is not Jewish at all.

Summation: I reject both the view that Jesus had to learn ONLY like a human to become God and I also reject the Gnostic view that Jesus was not human at all and was completely divine at all times.

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

(Some scientists now find evidence for both forces in the universe.5) Gnostic and charismatic approaches assume the spontaneous inner energy of the known world, whether in the cosmos itself (the gnostic view), or by active spirit, as the charismatic view has it.

Again, any echoes of the gnostic view — the structural opposite of the canonic position — were difficult to identify in members» accounts of crises.

But in the Gnostic view the extremist reactions from the disorienting complexities of our condition are only the means the Demiurge employs to enlarge his domain in which the entertainments of abundance beguilingly promise a triumph over matter and time.

Not exact matches

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.

Narrative movement in the canonic world view thus directly contradicts the gnostic, its polar opposite.

Because the canonic and gnostic sides function both conceptually and statistically» as opposites, as do the charismatic and empiric sides, it is possible to display the world view pattern of a congregation in graphic form according to the x and y axes of a coordinate system.

But the Gnostics departed even further from orthodox views of Jesus's suffering and death.

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.

In practical terms then what you would describe as a gnostic theist would be one who would, say have an ineerant view of scripture.

The Fourth Gospel especially is concerned to preserve this awareness of the historicity of revelation, in an environment sufficiently gnostic in its view of religious experience to dissolve Jesus into docetism.

Such views had been common in gnostic circles for centuries.

This theory is not as popular today as it once was, but it was a common view held by many during the first centuries of the church (e.g., the Gnostics held this view), and was rightly condemned as heresy by many of the early church leaders.

Many sects nor books viewed Jesus as the literal son of god, notable example, Gnostics, and Muslims don't today although they believe Jesus is a prophet.

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.

Austin The Gospel of John almost didn't make it into the canon of the Bible because it was a favorite book of the Gnostics, deemed «heretics» by the winning variety of Christianity that was able to declare it's views orthodox.

Originally, Gnostics simply called themselves, «Knowledge seekers» as Gnosis means Knowledge, the idea being, if Truth is ONE, then all Knowledge Seekers who GENUINELY seek the truth, should eventually end up at the same view, but by their own paths.