Sentences with phrase «gnostic writings»
It's in Gnostic writings like the Infancy Gospel of Thomas where the child Jesus is a supernatural prodigy, incapable of error though prone to fits of vengeance against adults and other children.
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This does not include the Gnostic writings or Jewish writings explaining the empty tomb.
It contained three gnostic writings, which purported to present the teachings of the risen Jesus and part of an apocryphal work about Peter.
Marvin Meyer's slim anthology provides readable translations of the basic texts from the New Testament and gnostic writings.
The three gnostic writings all take the form of dialogues in which the risen Savior appears to his disciples.
Other Gnostic writings say that while a human being named Jesus did actually die, the divine part of him, or the Christ, did not.
This work was discovered in a library of forty - nine Gnostic writings in thirteen leather - bound volumes.
El Flaco, technically this was not the teaching of the Church scholars but gnostic writings from first centuries of Christianity.
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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.
They put over thirty years of research into this book, getting their material from the gnostic gospels, and other writings which were excluded from the King James Bible.
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.
The popular revival of interest in these so - called «Gnostic» writings was led by Dan Brown, whose 2003 religious thriller The Da Vinci Code (Doubleday) mixed fact and fiction together (and lo, «faction» was born).
Bock agreed with the notion that the text fragment shared similarities with those gospels, called the Gnostic Gospels, which were the writings of an early outlier sect of Christians.