Sentences with phrase «gnostic escape»

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.

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Consequently, a faith which nostalgically clings to a lost past, a past having no integral relation to our present, can not escape the charge of Gnosticism; for a total refusal of our destiny can only be grounded in a Gnostic negation of 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?

In the first place, hope has to come to expression in quite specific and concrete sacramental images in order to connect with present reality and thereby to avoid the docetic and gnostic temptations to escape from the present altogether.

Another way to escape from history is to follow the gnostic path of dreaming up some radically other world, to which we «essentially» belong by virtue of an esoteric knowledge or «gnosis,» membership in which therefore keeps us from having to dwell fully within the messiness of historical existence.

This perception led directly to the project of escaping from the world, and gnostics typically saw such an escape as possible though a secret but teachable knowledge (gnosis) in the possession of the spiritual elite.