Sentences with phrase «from gnostic»

For some, the danger comes from a gnostic direction — abstracting from a particular time and place, and simply expunging the specific traces of that particularity (such as language like «father»).

Meeks contended that the androgynous concept received expanded — even «luxuriant» — treatment from Gnostic Christians, some of whom developed the sacrament of the bridegroom chamber to reunite the two halves in the believer.

... or just believe the next piece of garbage somebody digs up from some gnostic heap instead of the 500 people who testified that Jesus rose from the dead.

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.

What a far cry this statement is from a gnostic Neoplatonism wherein to know the One is to huddle alone with the One.

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.

What differentiates the charismatic and canonic approaches to the world from gnostic and empiric negotiations is their sense of transcendence.

Except this is a Coptic text from the 2nd - 4th century, and likely from the Gnostic communities there - in which case, it could be a reference to an actual wife, or a metaphorical discussion.

The ones from the gnostic gospels are fascinating as well.

They are quite different from the gnostics.

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.

El Flaco, technically this was not the teaching of the Church scholars but gnostic writings from first centuries of Christianity.

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.»

Thus the dislocation of sign from reality by nominalism makes ready the manipulations of gnostic intellect.

Could the text be one gnostic text from centuries after jesus» life that got nothing to do (like most gnostic stuff) with the actual Jesus, and is just recycled Platonic philosophy?

But in the Gnostic view the extremist reactions from the disorienting complexities of our condition are only the means the Demiurge employs to enlarge his domain in which the entertainments of abundance beguilingly promise a triumph over matter and time.

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).

This view is a little too mystical (or maybe even Gnostic) for most Christians, and yet it can not be proven or disproven from the text any more than the traditional view that God killed an animal to make clothes for Adam and Eve.

In contrast, the gnostic and empiric understandings find God and self ultimately embedded in the experienced world, finally indistinguishable from its nature.

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.

We take no particular pleasure in engaging the militant feminists and homosexual activists, the Nietzschean deconstructionists and relativists, the enemies of traditional morality and religious faith; indeed, the ongoing conflict with our various utopians and Gnostics is dirty business from which no one emerges with entirely clean hands or uncoarsened sensibilities.

I'm left with the nagging fear that the old cranks have been right all along, and with the worse fear that I'm the Gnostic, fantasizing that I can shield my self from my body's failings, soldier through, pretend it's not happening.

Buddhist sects in the United States today range from Jodo Shin - Shu (canonic) to Soka Gakkai (charismatic) to Zen (gnostic).

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

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.

The most probable conclusion to draw from passages of this sort is that either Thomas or earlier Gnostic tradition made use of the canonical gospels at points where we find parallels, and that there is no reason to suppose that any passage in Thomas (in spite of interesting textual variants) provides an earlier or a more reliable version of any saying of Jesus.

It may be possible to show, however, that (1) sayings reported in Thomas but not in the canonical gospels reflect special (e.g., Gnostic) tendencies, while (2) sayings reported in Thomas and in the canonical gospels have come from the canonical gospels to Thomas.

But the Gnostics departed even further from orthodox views of Jesus's suffering and death.

James the Just is prominent in the Gospel according to the Hebrews, but also among the Naassene Gnostics, who claimed to have traditions derived from him.

The Gnostic and Marcionite position represented one extreme: The entire Old Testament comes from the evil demiurge who trapped humans in materiality.

At the same time, our common life during the week helps keep our Sunday work from becoming gnostic.

The aim of the author was to establish the doctrine that marriage is sinful and Christians ought to abstain from it, and therefore the book was of Gnostic origin.

He would then be merely a hostile and terrifying «Other» or some Gnostic divinity entirely cut off from our world and our life.

For Buber the real distinction is not between a naïve acceptance of the world and the experiencing of its tragedy, but between the Gnostic belief in a contradiction that cuts the world off from God and the Jewish belief that «tragedy» can be experienced in the dialogical situation, that the contradiction can become a theophany.

Being neither a Gnostic escape from the world nor a romantic flight from history, dialectical thinking moves by means of a negation that is simultaneously affirmation.

However, according to preliminary reports, the Gospel of Thomas from Nag Hammadi actually contains a considerable body of sayings of Jesus, some of which are not purely of gnostic invention, but are of a type similar to those in the Synoptics.

If creation were not divine, if God were not immanent as well as transcendent, then we would have a gnostic division between God and the world which would leave the world for ever cut off from God and for ever unredeemable.

Hence, the movement from apocalypticism to the Gnostic rejection of law was more abrupt than that from Stoicism.

Gnostics wanted to purify and detach their spirits from material existence by ascetic disciplines, including abstention from sex and procreation.

Thus the form of Gnostic self - expression can be understood as a consequence of the direct impact of Socratic existence on highly civilized peoples prepared for the axial revolution, but not yet freed from the dominant power of the mythical.

The Gnostic as «spirit» transcended all other elements in his psychic life in the sense that he differentiated himself from them and distanced them.

Whether the Gnostic understanding of the relation of the «spirit» to other elements in the psyche resulted from or was projected onto the understanding of God's relation to the created world, the close correlation and mutual reinforcement is apparent.

They would argue that it stems more from Greek and gnostic influences than from the Bible itself.

Marvin Meyer's slim anthology provides readable translations of the basic texts from the New Testament and gnostic writings.

At the Westminster conference, Robert George used the concept of neo-Gnosticism that he develops in this issue («Gnostic Liberalism») to analyze progressive moral crusades from transgenderism to doctor - assisted suicide.

From Emerson to Harold Bloom and «New Age» spirituality, the Gnostic afflatus has had a long and profitable run in American culture.

J. N. D. Kelly has described his contribution as «the twofold one of expounding the truth against (a) the crude literalism which pictured the body as being reconstituted, with all its physical functions, at the last day, and (b) the perverse spiritualism of the Gnostics and Manichees, who proposed to exclude the body from salvation».43

One way of describing Dr. Altizer's effort is to say that he recognizes that Gnosticism, as flight from reality into a private religious world (or ideological world), is the great temptation or even treason of today, and that to combat this threat he has boldly adopted a typically Gnostic pattern of thought as the vehicle for expressing total commitment in and for the world.

But how shall he escape Dodd's charge that his sermons are gnostic evaporations of history and departures from the tradition which Paul and others, having received it, were careful to pass along to others?

So it follows that the notion of God's revelation, as Christians believe it, must be understood always through the great Hebrew affirmations — this, in fact, is why the early Church refused to cut the Gospel of Jesus Christ loose from its moorings in the Old Testament, and why such thinkers as sought to do this, like Marcion and other Gnostic writers, were condemned as perverters of the faith.