Sentences with word «gnosticism»

This is just a new kind of gnosticism with its own esoteric knowledge reserved for the initiated who desire to escape the tangible realities of this fleshy world and ascend to the unsullied heights of theological thought.

One difficulty has to do with the relationship between the political and revolutionary activism of modern gnosticism and the otherworldliness and political detachment of its ancient variety.

The appeal of pantheistic gnosticism was something that Lewis understood and withstood; it lies at the heart of occult «New Age» spirituality, «Deep Ecology,» and a good deal of «Eco-feminism» today.

In this modern vision, as in ancient gnosticism, the decline of real narrative has gone hand in hand with a blurring of the dialogical or event - character of man's existence and of the relation between God and Man.

It is clear that a one - sided reliance on what insiders think to be normative to faith can at times lead to an elitist gnosticism.

@Moby Schtick «Atheism / theism deal with BELIEF., Agnosticism / gnosticism deal with KNOWLEDGE of «spiritual» ideas.»

(A) gnosticism only pertains to whether you think it is possible to know for certain if there are deities or not.

(A) gnosticism pertains to knowledge, (a) theism to belief — there is a difference and they are not mutually exclusive.

None are scripture as gnosticism is a perversion of Christianity.

One goes to what you know (gnosticism means «to know» — or as it was used in ancient times, «to have knowledge of god») and one goes to what you believe (theist means to «believe in god» or «a god»).

In the more popular and pervasive gnosticism, the body was forever a barrier to the fulfillment of human life.

The second expression of gnosticism rejected the existence of the soul and wallowed in the base materiality of the human body, centring solely on empty self - pleasure and raw power.

This indignity, which has been termed gnosticism, has expressed itself in human history in two major campaigns against the human body.

Influenced by gnosticism, many conceptions of the human person, his body and soul, of personal acts, and the flourishing of Goodness and Beauty in personal and communal life, are either too pessimistic or optimistic.

This reality (described in an oxymoron), which would otherwise confound us and lock us up in endless gnosticism, has become «that which we have seen with our eyes and touched with our hands» (1 John 1:1).

The first expression of gnosticism hid in the spiritual nature of the human person and focused on meditation and sacrifice.

But you forgot the Kabbalah, which many gentiles think is cool It's like Jewish gnosticism Arcane knowledge.

Your contention that Calvinism arose from gnosticism or that Calvinism departs from Scripture is laughable!

It is new probably only in this sense that today this problem has become more urgent, even though it has recurred again and again in Church history ever since gnosticism.

To think this way is pure and simple gnosticism.

The rule of law, I think, does not admit very well of the irony of doubt, or any therapeutic gnosticism.

This model powerfully supports an ecclesiastical gnosticism that exempts the hierarchy from standard forms of scholarly accountability and reduces the theological task to mediating authoritative documents.

Atheism / theism speaks to belief whereas agnosticism / gnosticism speaks to knowledge.

The blatant gnosticism of this conclusion will be obvious to any well - formed Christian, but perhaps not to Endō himself.

Now gnosticism is a religion which takes the need for salvation seriously, and it presented a real problem to Christians, for much of its teaching seemed to parallel the Christian.

Modern day gnosticism.

and with the Christian doctrine of the restoration of all things (apokatastasis hapanton) advocated by Origen (following early Christian gnosticism)(I Cor.

Most Conservative American * Christians * cling to the Law, not the Cross, Pentecostal / Charismatics use traditional church - speak to cloak a spiritual gnosticism in much the same way as Liberal * Christians * hid their secular humanism behind traditional theological terminology that has been redefined by context.

The same underlying theology, often called incipient gnosticism, explains Corinthian immorality (viewing fornication as immoral attests ignorance of the freeing power of insight), asceticism (mundane behavior should reflect the ethic of the eschaton), denial of the resurrection (lofty spiritual experience is itself the resurrection, which is thus «already past» - cf. 2 Tim.

To say otherwise is to revert back into a kind of dualistic gnosticism, and the history of such isolationism and retreat from all of God's creation (including all spheres of human endeavor) is very troubling.

Voegelin's interpretation of gnosticism provides a dramatic way of conceptualizing the history of political though and even of Western culture.

The Christian effort to overcome gnosticism and apocalypticism and to integrate the God of the messianic future with the divine Ground of Being failed because it continued to be based on the patriarchal denigration of the female.

If you know about gnosticism, you know that means it's incredibly likely to be inaccurate.

Yet there is an opposite temptation that Lewis also criticized — the temptation to defy science, from the standpoint of either romantic / pantheistic gnosticism or theological fideism.

[3][4] Reasons for this include its linguistic differences from 1 Peter, its apparent use of Jude, possible allusions to 2nd - century gnosticism, encouragement in the wake of a delayed parousia, and weak external support.

Instead of analyzing ancient gnosticism, let me quote from a term paper which was submitted recently.

Faith becomes irresponsible, an elitist gnosticism.

Agnosticism / gnosticism deal with KNOWLEDGE of «spiritual» ideas.