Sentences with phrase «from gnosticism»

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Linguistic differences from 1 Peter, its apparent use of Jude, allusions to 2nd - century gnosticism, and more — does any of this so far sound like political correctness?

[3][4] Reasons for this include its linguistic differences from 1 Peter, its apparent use of Jude, possible allusions to 2nd - century gnosticism, encouragement in the wake of a delayed parousia, and weak external support.

In his fiction, the church exists on the periphery of the community's fellowship, and exhibits what philosopher Norman Wirzba calls a «disincarnate form of Christianity,» a kind of gnosticism, isolated and disconnected from where the people live their lives during the week.

It is only a short step from this to the breakdown of narrative vision altogether, which happens in gnosticism.

Instead of analyzing ancient gnosticism, let me quote from a term paper which was submitted recently.

Bloom, rather loosely, calls the American religion «gnosticism,» the belief that each individual possesses a divine spark and salvation consists in the liberation of that divine spark from the body and from the particularities of its constraints in history and cultural space.

Even though the «historical section» or humiliation seems even to disappear from some of these kerygmatic texts, their original intention was to emphasize the meaningfulness of Jesus» historicity or humiliation, and only with gnosticism was this original meaning lost.

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.

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

To say otherwise is to revert back into a kind of dualistic gnosticism, and the history of such isolationism and retreat from all of God's creation (including all spheres of human endeavor) is very troubling.