Sentences with phrase «gnostic thought»

Possible Jewish origins of Gnostic thought are stimulated in part by the wealth of material about Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve.

The concept of nature as evil and alien to humanity began basically in late apocalyptic and gnostic thought in the Christian era.

Aristotle thought that the world was eternal and had no beginning, while the Gnostics thought it was the result of an unplanned and unfortunate accident.

Is that gnostic thinking?

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An atheist gnostic is someone who does not believe in gods, and who thinks that we can know that gods do not exist.

A theist gnostic is someone who believes in a god / gods and thinks that the existence of gods can be known.

Pastor Silleck thinks I have done some quite terrible things» abandon reason, adopt an «unholy posture,» embrace a «neo «gnostic myth,» and «strike a deal with the devil»» because I believe it highly unlikely, in any foreseeable future, that Lutherans and Catholics will achieve ecclesiastical unity.

The Gnostics completely turn what Christians believe about Satan on its head, and I think there is real danger in digging into the fall of Satan too hard.

Were I to follow what I would call the comic or gnostic vein in Schleiermacher's thought, I would gain the assurance that I, like any other single entity, am actually resolved in the eternal.14 All things, including my cancer, are really signs, miracles in themselves that signify the encompassing One.

You're thinking of the gnostic gospels which were written a long time later.

A «gnostic» is one who knows about the existence of god and an «agnostic» is one who thinks that god is unknowable.

Does the psychiatric literature shed light on personality types that are particularly susceptible to conspiracy thinking, or on the appeal of Gnostic subcultures that claim to possess secret knowledge?

Or, you could just call such a person a «gnostic atheist», one who doesn't believe in a god and thinks that his non-belief can be proved.

I think I qualify as a gnostic as I see my faith as spiritual and about my character.

I think you're asking in a gnostic sense, suggesting there might be a good and an evil God creating things.

I think it is safe to say if we were in Athens in New Testament times, Dominic would be Paul arguing against the gnostics, I would be converted to Paul's thinking.

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.

Western church fathers condemned him as a gnostic, but he was not a gnostic except in that he thought that matter was evil.

His failure to interpret correctly the philosophical and theological traditions that precede this revolution shows how difficult it is to think outside the nominalist and Gnostic horizon once we're inside it, especially when our technologically mediated relationship to the natural world and our own bodies reinforces its hold on us.

There is nothing Baptist about these Baptists, thinks Bloom, and maybe little that is Christian, but much that is Gnostic.

I get what you are saying with the atheist / thieist and gnostic / agnostic terms and I think I woudn't be in any disagreement with the ideas you are convering.

I think the classical categories are too arbitrary and gnostic; so we certainly need something different.

To me this is a very Gnostic - sounding word raising the question whether Dr. Altizer's resolute dialectical inversion of Gnostic patterns of thought has really been successfully achieved.

One way of describing Dr. Altizer's effort is to say that he recognizes that Gnosticism, as flight from reality into a private religious world (or ideological world), is the great temptation or even treason of today, and that to combat this threat he has boldly adopted a typically Gnostic pattern of thought as the vehicle for expressing total commitment in and for the world.

To add an image to Professor Robert P. George's reflections on the intimate union of the «body - self» in his typically thought - provoking article «Gnostic Liberalism» (December 2016), I share the Pauline «body of Christ.»

However, although Hall is clearly sympathetic to much in the «gnostic sensibility» as thus characterized (cf. UP 336 - 46), and although, as we have seen, he regards modern technology as the manifestation of a tendency in Western thought and culture of which he is highly critical, he does not himself recommend «a revolt against contemporary forms of technology,» at least as that phrase would ordinarily be understood.

42.2 % no religious affiliation, including agnostic, atheist, Humanist, Darwinism, and «no religion» 19.0 % Catholic 17.4 % Protestant 6.9 % Buddhist 4.4 % other Christian, not identified elsewhere 2.8 % Sikh 1.8 % Jewish 1.7 % Muslim 1.7 % Christian Orthodox 1.4 % Hindu 0.5 % other religions, including Aboriginal spirituality, Pagan, Wicca, Unity, New Thought, Pantheist, Scientology, Rastafarian, New Age, Gnostic, Satanist 0.3 % Bahá «í, Eckankar, Jains, Shinto, Taoist, Zoroastrian and Eastern religions not identified elsewhere

Wasn't it the Gnostics who thought they were the possessors of «secret knowledge»?

I think, for instance, Irenaeus, when he challenged the Gnostics, betrayed a humble deference toward them.

YOU: I think, for instance, Irenaeus, when he challenged the Gnostics, betrayed a humble deference toward them.

That is a dualistic, gnostic way of thinking which completely misses the point of Scripture and the incarnation.

Like his more speculative contemporary Ptolemy, a moderate Gnostic teacher, he undoubtedly thought of himself as standing in «the apostolic tradition» in a «succession» of teachers.24 Like pagan teachers and rabbis, Justin laid hands upon the head of each disciple on the completion of the course.25 At his trial, Justin, philosopher - prophet - teacher, describes the «school» where he has been teaching for the examining prefect, who will presently put him and several of his students to death.

He thought of the old order of teachers as each a «Peter» by gnostic faith and as compositely embodying the teaching authority of the Church.

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.