Sentences with phrase «gnostic orientation»

To discover that a parish has, for example, an empiric - gnostic orientation may be a helpful recognition, but that finding alone does not identify the whole range of motifs and images by which a local church understands its world.

Charismatic negotiations are more significant for churches F, G, and J. Church K is guided by a gnostic orientation.

In Hinduism there are the canonic mode of karma yoga, the charismatic understanding of bhakti yoga, and the gnostic orientation of jnana yoga.

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He also frequently noted that «gnostic,» as he used the term, referred to a general orientation, not to specific historical groups or their teachings.

Islam possesses a canonic orientation in its Sunni form, a charismatic version in some Shi'ite sects and a gnostic side in Sufism.

I also found orientations that I came to call the gnostic and the charismatic categories.