Sentences with phrase «about gnostic»

It was about 1927, when Farrer was just a 22 - year - old Oxford student (Baillol College), that he indulged in a binge of reading about the gnostic socio - cultural milieu from which early Christianity emerged.

The traditional Christian message is probably far from the truth, and the more one learns about the Gnostic Gospels, the more one begins to feel this has to be the case.

I was so excited yesterday to learn about Gnostic Christianity.

Not exact matches

Each step in this retreat from the body reinforces the Gnostic claim that God cares only about the soul, that what is right and good and holy transcends the body, that the created order is no order at all.

Since you seem to be mixed up about what Agnostic / Gnostic and Atheist / Theist mean I will repeat so you don't confuse those terms again.

Did you know that the Gospel of Thomas is a late Gnostic text that just about anyone with an education doesn't take seriously (nor, pretty much anyone with familiarity with the Bible who has actually read it!).

Agnostic / Gnostic isn't about «belief», it's about «knowledge».

The true Gnostic, knowing the wiles of the Demiurge, is not about to be taken in by the pseudo-Gnostic promise of a new consciousness by way of McKenna's golden mushrooms.

True Gnostics with their avant - garde knowledge know all this just as they know all about those avid and gullible others to whom the Demiurge's aesthetic images guarantee abundance without end if they are bold and clever enough to seize it.

The believer who says no to our historical present, who refuses the existence about and within him, who sets himself against our time and destiny, and yet seeks release in an «eternity» having no relation, or only a negative relation, to our present moment, is succumbing to the Gnostic danger.

The Gnostics completely turn what Christians believe about Satan on its head, and I think there is real danger in digging into the fall of Satan too hard.

(Incidentally, this is why you are most certainly incorrect about me being gnostic — it's fairly impossible for me to be gnostic whilst embracing and championing the role of physical, actual resurrection.)

No — gnostic is about knowledge.

So, one Gnostic interpretation of the Cain and Abel story might be that it isn't really about Cain's wickedness at all.

A «gnostic» is one who knows about the existence of god and an «agnostic» is one who thinks that god is unknowable.

I think I qualify as a gnostic as I see my faith as spiritual and about my character.

There is nothing Baptist about these Baptists, thinks Bloom, and maybe little that is Christian, but much that is Gnostic.

It contained three gnostic writings, which purported to present the teachings of the risen Jesus and part of an apocryphal work about Peter.

If any Christians are currently promoting a «gnostic split of soul and body,» it is those on the left who seem satisfied with social programs that feed the body but starve the soul and, even worse, turn a blind eye to growing efforts by the government to discriminate against faith - based charities that are serious about ministering to the whole person.

The Gnostic gospels do not include eyewitness testimony about Jesus.

The extreme stances would be the gnostic atheist who is convinced that God can't exist and the gnostic theist that is convinced that God has to exist and knows a bunch of details about Him.

The Gnostic gospels don't provide any helpful information about the historical Jesus.

There, you can see, he describes ME as a Gnostic existentialist Heideggerian for not believing that Darwin explains it all about human beings.

[22] For Ignatius, who harboured no illusions about the fact that at the end of his journey his end would come at the teeth of beasts in the amphitheatre of Rome, [23] the letters, with their plea to the recipients that their hope to retain their unity lay in their regarding «a bishop as the Lord himself,» [24] the letters also offer a vehicle to counter the Gnostic / Docetic heresy.

Possible Jewish origins of Gnostic thought are stimulated in part by the wealth of material about Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve.

First century Jewish historian Josephus referred to Jewish beliefs about the greatness of Seth, but only in the Gnostic works does one find extensive literature about Seth.

For a total refusal of our actual existence, of, our destiny, can only be grounded in a Gnostic negation of the world about us.

Worth a read, and nothing for Christians to be worried about, as it is yet another late, 4th century Gnostic text.

You're right about the RCC being Gnostics.

Before answering Tommaso Maria Gras» argument, I have to admit that I am thrown off by the phrase «the gnostic dream of building paradise on earth,» which is about as total a contradiction in terms as one could imagine.

What Peter Leithart is reading about: J. Louis Martyn on Paul, gnostic Protestantism, Sergei Bulgakov, Jenson, writers writing about writers, modes of existence, movie remakes, and religious freedom.

Although the ideas of Clement and Origen about teachers, gnostics, and angels are important for the later theories both of prelacy and the pastoral function of the monks, we must return to Rome and Carthage for the more immediately significant developments in the history of the ancient ministries of the Church.