Sentences with phrase «gnostic movement»

The ancient gnostic movement was characterized by a radical dualism.

In sum, even though he was absorbed by the spiritual crisis of modern man — a crisis he traced back to the ancient gnostic movement — it can hardly be said that he viewed history in a Christian fashion, that is, as a drama of sin and redemption.

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To say that «we continue to consider Lutheranism a confessional movement in the one comprehensive Church of Christ whose full lineaments will be made clear only in the End Time» is a neo «gnostic myth which refuses to believe that Jesus Christ founded a historical church that we are to take seriously.

Narrative movement in the canonic world view thus directly contradicts the gnostic, its polar opposite.

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

Possibly the Gnostic sect which emerged later is a development of this old Baptist sect, and perhaps many of the Mandæan conceptions go back to the beginning of the movement.

The major alternative movements — the Ebionites, Marcionites and Gnostics — had historical liabilities.