Sentences with phrase «gnostics hold»

This theory is not as popular today as it once was, but it was a common view held by many during the first centuries of the church (e.g., the Gnostics held this view), and was rightly condemned as heresy by many of the early church leaders.

And verse 3 reminds us that there are no intermediaries or levels between this redemptive God and his creation, as the gnostics held.

Not exact matches

It was a belief held by several of the gnostic groups, but not by the church.

The horizontal x axis in Figure E holds in binary opposition the canonic and gnostic sides, while the vertical y axis has as its poles the charismatic and gnostic sides.

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.

The same holds good, mutatis mutandis, of the Gnostic myths.