Sentences with phrase «in gnostic»

The manifold variety of doctrines which could be encountered in early Greek philosophy and in the early Hellenistic age was abandoned (though to some extent revived in Gnostic circles), and in its place came a fairly uniform teaching, largely Stoic in origin, which laid emphasis on the four virtues of justice, courage, sobriety and understanding, and was addressed by preachers to individuals.

The Thomas version has introduced gnosticizing elements into the parable, the tilled ground representing the aspect of labouring in the gnostic soteriology, and the great branch the growth of the «heavenly man», (B. Gärtner, Theology of the Gospel According to Thomas, p. 232.)

It's in Gnostic writings like the Infancy Gospel of Thomas where the child Jesus is a supernatural prodigy, incapable of error though prone to fits of vengeance against adults and other children.

I am not in the Gnostic, Jesus - is - only - divine - not - human camp; He was and is human (yesterday, today and forever, in fact); however, I would argue that as divine, Jesus shares in the divine attributes, of which omniscience is one.

For a total refusal of our actual existence, of, our destiny, can only be grounded in a Gnostic negation of the world about us.

Such views had been common in gnostic circles for centuries.

(There are parallels to both these figures in the Gnostic myths, but if the latter influenced St. Paul in any way, they did so in a form which was already largely derived from Judaism.

Bultmann's «earthly existence» is somewhat dangerous, for it could be taken in a Gnostic sense.

It is unlikely that mention of any such marriage would be found in Gnostic sources, since these generally despise sex because it requires the use of the body.

First century Jewish historian Josephus referred to Jewish beliefs about the greatness of Seth, but only in the Gnostic works does one find extensive literature about Seth.

The female side of the deity and the prominence of women disciples in Gnostic Christian writings should interest feminist theologians regarding a discarded side of early Christianity.

However, Robinson noted that Colpe enthused in a 1974 article over the «stupendous parallels» to the prologue of John in a Gnostic «classic» in the Nag Hammadi collection — the heaven - sent Logos of the Father who makes frequent «I am» statements in the text Trimorphic Protennoia.

This «ironic choice» for Mary and for all women - that the better choice is not to see oneself as female — is reinforced by the words of Jesus in the gnostic Gospel of Thomas: «For every female (element) that makes itself male will enter the kingdom of heaven.»

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

Some of the sayings which he relates are ascribed to oral tradition by the Church Fathers; others are to be found in Gnostic sources which the Fathers quote.

Reality in the gnostic negotiation is ultimately dependable.

II 24.6, that this parable was much used by Gnostics, and, both in Thomas and in the Gospel of Truth where a version of it is also to be found, it has become so much a vehicle for expressing gnostic teaching that the versions do not help us to reconstruct the teaching of Jesus (for a good discussion of the meaning and use of this parable in its gnostic setting, see B. Gärtner, Theology of the Gospel According to Thomas, pp. 234 ff.)

You can either believe Paul's version of the Gospel or you can believe in the Gnostic version, but you can't believe both.

Consequently, a faith which nostalgically clings to a lost past, a past having no integral relation to our present, can not escape the charge of Gnosticism; for a total refusal of our destiny can only be grounded in a Gnostic negation of the world.

In our Gnostic culture, which devalues the givenness of things and the revelatory power built into that givenness, this Franciscan reminder to twenty - first - century Christians is of crucial importance.

But in the Gnostic view the extremist reactions from the disorienting complexities of our condition are only the means the Demiurge employs to enlarge his domain in which the entertainments of abundance beguilingly promise a triumph over matter and time.

And in Gnostic gospels - many of which were written in Coptic - Jesus referred to Mary Magdalene as his wife.

It also is used in Gnostic and other fringe - cult «gospels» to refer to Mary Magdalene.

Instead, it has Sex Week, an occasion to catechize tomorrow's leaders in the Gnostic dogma that our bodies — and the bodies of others universally available under the sole limitation of consent — are there for us to do with as we wish.

If we want to know how that would develop we can read it and find it in the Gnostics, against whom the Gospel of St John was the great rock of support and document of clarity of the Fathers of the Church.

Not exact matches

Each step in this retreat from the body reinforces the Gnostic claim that God cares only about the soul, that what is right and good and holy transcends the body, that the created order is no order at all.

For example, in the 1st century C.E., a group of people called the Gnostics (from the Greek word gno ′ sis, meaning «knowledge») claimed superior knowledge through secret revelation and boasted that they were the «correctors of the apostles.»

These three poems may help us to understand Milosz's ultimate message in the Treatise — namely, his choice to «sing with them,» his fellow Christians, despite the fact that he is naturally a skeptic, and despite his lengthy grappling with gnostic theories.

another gnostic gospel... not even close to the true Gospel found in matthew, mark, luke, and john gospels that line up with Paul, and the other apostles teachings of Jesus, those four gospels have hundreds of manuscrips not like these puny 1 time fragments dated way after apostles

Except this is a Coptic text from the 2nd - 4th century, and likely from the Gnostic communities there - in which case, it could be a reference to an actual wife, or a metaphorical discussion.

These terms have been watered down, and most (not all) people equate them as follows: - Most Christian / Muslim / Hindu / Pagan = a Gnostic Theist = Know of god's existence / non-existence, and believe in god.

this web site does nt really put christians in a good light as far as acceptance of the 2nd largest religion... islam... and that category is shared with catholics, restorationists, gnostics and episcopalians... so do nt flatter your self too much.

The libertine and ascetic Gnostics strike us as being incompatible heretics, however in the act of day - by - day living each may have slipped into the other's territory.

A confirmed Gnostic would recognize in these words that the Demiurge, having seduced McKenna into a categorical choice for abundance, still had the situation well in hand.

But at the same time, he says, «To live without music would be a torment to me, an absurdity,» which a true - believing Gnostic could take as a sign that the Demiurge still has him in thrall.

The Cages and the Falstaffs of the world are least likely to know this, but true - believing Gnostics, an avant - garde elite if there ever was one, have always known it and have always known too how to move into and stake out claims in Christian and Jewish territory.

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

The true Gnostic, knowing the wiles of the Demiurge, is not about to be taken in by the pseudo-Gnostic promise of a new consciousness by way of McKenna's golden mushrooms.

Yet there is something like faith in his fascination with the Gnostic picture of things as they are, always have been, and always will be.

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

By contrast with this vision, embedded as it was in history and actual transformation, the dispensational chart appeared contrived, ahistorical, and almost gnostic in character.

On the other hand, a true - believing Gnostic, oriented to a transcendental state of being, would have to see the computer as the means the Demiurge uses to imprison humans more securely in the world of time and matter in which the rigged environment frustrates any attempt at transcendental relief.

A genuinely dialectical form of faith can never be Gnostic, for it can never dissociate negation and affirmation; hence its negation of «history» must always be grounded in an affirmation of the «present.»

The Gnostic Jesus (Part One in a Two - Part Series on Ancient and Modern Gnosticism) by Douglas Groothuis: equip.org/free/DG040-1.

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 were helped in this through their Gnostic gospels which record many sayings attributed to Jesus, whom they regarded as savior from demonic powers (Pagels 1979).

To say that «we continue to consider Lutheranism a confessional movement in the one comprehensive Church of Christ whose full lineaments will be made clear only in the End Time» is a neo «gnostic myth which refuses to believe that Jesus Christ founded a historical church that we are to take seriously.

The believer who says no to our historical present, who refuses the existence about and within him, who sets himself against our time and destiny, and yet seeks release in an «eternity» having no relation, or only a negative relation, to our present moment, is succumbing to the Gnostic danger.

Instead of considering my condition a frustration of life, I could, by the gnostic negotiation, work to see the inherently miraculous nature of my state, and rest upon its indication of being in God.

The exact same arguments the gnostics put forth to explain their beliefs are the same teachings you hear today in calvinistic circles.