Sentences with phrase «called gnostic»

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.

I don't know who invented the argument that anybody lower than you on the sacramental realism scale is supposed to be called gnostic, but it's an argument that has caught on.

For example, in the 1st century C.E., a group of people called the Gnostics (from the Greek word gno ′ sis, meaning «knowledge») claimed superior knowledge through secret revelation and boasted that they were the «correctors of the apostles.»

The first I should like to call the Gnostic model, the other the Christian model.

I also found orientations that I came to call the gnostic and the charismatic categories.

They use to call gnostics heretics, you know?

In early Christian history we call them Gnostics.

The people calling me a gnostic can not understand that I am a psychologist, describing modes of psychical behaviour precisely like a biologist studying the instinctual activities of insects.

Not exact matches

Some Gnostics believe it was someone else, someone called Simon, who was killed on that occasion.»

I would argue that many if not most people who call themselves Christians are gnostic theists, while most people who call themselves atheists are agnostic atheists.

Were I to follow what I would call the comic or gnostic vein in Schleiermacher's thought, I would gain the assurance that I, like any other single entity, am actually resolved in the eternal.14 All things, including my cancer, are really signs, miracles in themselves that signify the encompassing One.

Both gnostic and charismatic narrative can be distinguished from the other categories by what scientists call spontaneity.

(He is alternately called Demiurge, Samael, and Ialdabaoth, depending on which gnostic teacher you read).

Or, you could just call such a person a «gnostic atheist», one who doesn't believe in a god and thinks that his non-belief can be proved.

Strong atheism is sometimes called «gnostic atheism» because people who take this position often incorporate knowledge claims into it — that is to say, they claim to know in some fashion that certain gods or indeed all gods do not or can not exist.

But it is especially pertinent to the «Mormons and Southern Baptists [who] call themselves Christians, but like most Americans... are closer to ancient Gnostics than to early Christians.»

It is ironic that in his unpublished doctoral dissertation, in two subsequent articles, 22 and in Mircea Eliade and the Dialectic of the Sacred (none of which displays an acquaintance either with Answer to Job or the Philp volume), Altizer has persisted in calling Jung a modern Gnostic whose work amounts to an undialectical world - negation and a flight into a discarnate eternity.

The Gnostic gospels were indeed «scripture» far more so than the present form of the so called «Holy Bible».

These glosses called into question the creation of the world in time, the role of the senses and the imagination in human knowing, the individuality (and personal responsibility) of the human intellect and will, the immortality of the human composite of body and soul, the role of divine Providence, the simple standard of one truth governing both theology and philosophy, and other foundations of both Catholic faith and empirical (as distinct from gnostic) reason.

In the religiosity of Hellenistic culture there was a world - denying, gnostic kind of piety that scholars equate with the so - called «divine man» that was in its own way just as illusory and immature as the nationalist warrior piety of Palestinian Judaism.

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).

I'm more for the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, as I believe they are the closest anyone will ever be to the man called Jesus.

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.