Sentences with phrase «as gnostic»

Once known as gnostic cells, after the Greek word for knowledge, they were dubbed grandmother cells in the late 1960s by neuroscientist Jerome Lettvin of MIT.

The chefs behind «The Art of the Dinner Party» are as Gnostic as the Norwegian villagers.

Whether or not Jung may truly be identified as a Gnostic (and he has so identified himself on numerous occasions), there is nothing in what he describes as individuation that is not far more fully present in classical mystical ways of both the East and West.

Repellent as Gnostic belief and practice may be, it at least bespeaks the ancient obsession with salvation and purification.

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

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

He finds the religious portrayals of Jesus as an exorcist (Graham Twelftree), a Jewish peasant cynic (John Dominic Crossan), a prophet of social change (Gerd Thiessen), as a Gnostic teacher (Elaine Pagels), or as an eschatological prophet (E.P. Sanders) as exasperating to the befuddled layperson.

Western church fathers condemned him as a gnostic, but he was not a gnostic except in that he thought that matter was evil.

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

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.

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....

Salvation occurs as the Gnostic awakens (ahem!)

And verse 3 reminds us that there are no intermediaries or levels between this redemptive God and his creation, as the gnostics held.

Not exact matches

Instead, it has Sex Week, an occasion to catechize tomorrow's leaders in the Gnostic dogma that our bodies — and the bodies of others universally available under the sole limitation of consent — are there for us to do with as we wish.

And even Christianity, a religion founded on the notion, had its deniers as well» most notably the Gnostics.

After rehearsing all his anguished questions and the gnostic solutions to which he had sometimes turned along the way, he finishes with a serene prayer to the Beautiful Lady and takes children as his model.

And in Gnostic gospels - many of which were written in Coptic - Jesus referred to Mary Magdalene as his wife.

The ones from the gnostic gospels are fascinating as well.

She may have had a falling out with James the Just as well as other disciples after Jesus» death, as she never appears again after the «discovery» at the tomb, although there is a gnostic «gospel» attributed to her.

These terms have been watered down, and most (not all) people equate them as follows: - Most Christian / Muslim / Hindu / Pagan = a Gnostic Theist = Know of god's existence / non-existence, and believe in god.

this web site does nt really put christians in a good light as far as acceptance of the 2nd largest religion... islam... and that category is shared with catholics, restorationists, gnostics and episcopalians... so do nt flatter your self too much.

The libertine and ascetic Gnostics strike us as being incompatible heretics, however in the act of day - by - day living each may have slipped into the other's territory.

But at the same time, he says, «To live without music would be a torment to me, an absurdity,» which a true - believing Gnostic could take as a sign that the Demiurge still has him in thrall.

Yet so to apotheosize earthly existence is, almost inevitably, to have gnostic contempt for it, to see it as the realm of darkness more than light.

Yet there is something like faith in his fascination with the Gnostic picture of things as they are, always have been, and always will be.

By contrast with this vision, embedded as it was in history and actual transformation, the dispensational chart appeared contrived, ahistorical, and almost gnostic in character.

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.

On the other hand, a true - believing Gnostic, oriented to a transcendental state of being, would have to see the computer as the means the Demiurge uses to imprison humans more securely in the world of time and matter in which the rigged environment frustrates any attempt at transcendental relief.

This attraction and the surrender to it makes the person a slave to self - gratification, to gnostic self - hatred, whims and fancies, as well as social trends and opinions.

The Gnostics were helped in this through their Gnostic gospels which record many sayings attributed to Jesus, whom they regarded as savior from demonic powers (Pagels 1979).

Hippolytus of Rome, early in the third [46] century CE, referenced the gnostic Valentinus as having followed 1 John in naming God as «wholly love,» in relation to which «love is not love unless there is something loved.»

I believe they would see the former as corrupted with certain gnostic beliefs that slander God's character and make Him out to be a liar, while the latter would be seen as so corrupted by paganism that it basically boils down to rude idolatry sprinkled with certain Christian beliefs.

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

Knox distinguishes the gnostic and charismatic approaches as two distinct types of enthusiasm.

The canonic story traces a self that declines tragically from a state misunderstood as apotheosis to total subordination, while the gnostic story elevates the self from a state misunderstood as bondage to union with God.

In speaking thus, the New Testament is in agreement with the Gnostics, for they too speak of «this world», and of the princes, prince, or god of this world; and moreover they both regard man as the slave of the world and its powers.

The horizontal x axis in Figure E holds in binary opposition the canonic and gnostic sides, while the vertical y axis has as its poles the charismatic and gnostic sides.

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.

(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 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 gnostic view), or by active spirit, as the charismatic view has it.

True, St. Paul seems to agree with the Gnostics as regards the effects which he ascribes to the fall of Adam as the ancestor of the human race.

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.

Despite those critics who cite this fragment of Blake's vision as evidence of a Gnostic hatred of the body, we have only to recall his continual and ecstatic celebration of sexuality and the body to recognize these lines as containing a vision of the regeneration and reversal of a fallen sexuality.

As it stands in Thomas, the parable teaches the gnostic conception `... that most men have no idea what treasure they have within themselves and so not everyone finds the treasure hid in his field — discovers the divine self within.»

Or, one could take a more Gnostic approach and turn the whole story round on Yahweh, indicting him, as did early Christian ministers like Valentinus.

There are Gnostic Atheists (better known as Militant to some) and I believe they are lying also.

One might very well read his protest not as a brief for atheism, but as a kind of demythologized Gnostic manifesto, an accusation flung in the face of the demiurge.

This Kingdom is not in heaven or (for that matter) in the sea; instead, it is within the Gnostic (cf. Luke 17:21) and the Gnostic is within it; he comes to it by knowledge of himself, i.e. of his true nature as a son of the Living Father (3).

The early centuries were turbulent ones as different sects fought for supremacy within the Church (Ebionites, Marcionites, Gnostics, etc.).

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.

This sort of teaching was part of the Gnostic heresy in the early church, but has worked its way through numerous forms of the modern church as well.