Sentences with phrase «as gnosticism»

None are scripture as gnosticism is a perversion of Christianity.

Not exact matches

One goes to what you know (gnosticism means «to know» — or as it was used in ancient times, «to have knowledge of god») and one goes to what you believe (theist means to «believe in god» or «a god»).

In this modern vision, as in ancient gnosticism, the decline of real narrative has gone hand in hand with a blurring of the dialogical or event - character of man's existence and of the relation between God and Man.

This attitude represents a kind of gnosticism, as Oakeshott explicitly observed, and he traced the rise of Rationalism to a concurrent falling away from faith.

Is this identity which is claimed between my visible self and my invisible self not in fact a speculation as in gnosticism or anthroposophism, which also speak of relations of my self to higher worlds, relations which are real beyond my consciousness and which are in reality highly indifferent to me?

Any defection from high sacramentalism is gleefully identified as matter - hating, body - denying, salvation - by - cognition, capital G, gnosticism.

Most Conservative American * Christians * cling to the Law, not the Cross, Pentecostal / Charismatics use traditional church - speak to cloak a spiritual gnosticism in much the same way as Liberal * Christians * hid their secular humanism behind traditional theological terminology that has been redefined by context.

It will then be transformed into the style of religious escapism known as «gnosticism.»

Voegelin was even led to suggest that liberalism and totalitarianism, so commonly regarded in our times as polar opposites, were both fundamentally forms of gnosticism.