Sentences with phrase «gnostic position»

Whatever external marks of similarity John may have with gnosticism, he attacks the basic gnostic position with great force: namely, that Jesus Christ could not be a true and complete man; that the Son of God could not have suffered and died.

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Again, any echoes of the gnostic view — the structural opposite of the canonic position — were difficult to identify in members» accounts of crises.

The Gnostic and Marcionite position represented one extreme: The entire Old Testament comes from the evil demiurge who trapped humans in materiality.

Strong atheism is sometimes called «gnostic atheism» because people who take this position often incorporate knowledge claims into it — that is to say, they claim to know in some fashion that certain gods or indeed all gods do not or can not exist.

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.