Sentences with phrase «gnostic interpretations»

So, one Gnostic interpretation of the Cain and Abel story might be that it isn't really about Cain's wickedness at all.

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They have been stirred together in a mortar, and the two elements have completely neutralized each other in a compound which is neither history nor interpretation, but mystical rhapsody and poetry of devotion, not so much a theology as a half - Gnostic Christian theosophy — history turned inside out in order to reveal its inner meaning, but ceasing to be history in the process.

As David Yeago has noted in a critique of Gerhard Forde, the most eloquent American proponent of such an interpretation of Luther, in this scheme Lutheranism is reduced to a kind of gnostic sect.

43 urban farmers eating plant - based diets I am not in a position to assess Gnostic or anagrammatic interpretations of the Bible, but I found Hatfield's analysis of biblical diets to be thought - provoking: Hatfield, 2009, pp. 23 — 29.