Sentences with phrase «known gnostic»

Along with sayings based on the gospels and on known Gnostic traditions, Thomas provides some highly mysterious materials which reflect his theology.

She is the author of a number of books, notably the well - known Gnostic Gospels (1979) and....

We know the Gnostics are wrong, blasphemously so, and we should probably leave that one be.

Hence it can never know the Gnostic attitude of simple world - negation.

Not exact matches

Did you know that the Gospel of Thomas is a late Gnostic text that just about anyone with an education doesn't take seriously (nor, pretty much anyone with familiarity with the Bible who has actually read it!).

Gnostic / Agnostic refers to knowledge... what you can know or not know.

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.

It will no longer do for New Testament scholars to place the Roman emperor amongst the ranks of divine men, gnostic redeemers, divinized heroes and other assorted and «Hellenistic» characters and then dismiss his significance by reason of the disreputable company that he keeps.

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.

I don't know who invented the argument that anybody lower than you on the sacramental realism scale is supposed to be called gnostic, but it's an argument that has caught on.

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

True Gnostics with their avant - garde knowledge know all this just as they know all about those avid and gullible others to whom the Demiurge's aesthetic images guarantee abundance without end if they are bold and clever enough to seize it.

(Some scientists now find evidence for both forces in the universe.5) Gnostic and charismatic approaches assume the spontaneous inner energy of the known world, whether in the cosmos itself (the gnostic view), or by active spirit, as the charismatic view Gnostic and charismatic approaches assume the spontaneous inner energy of the known world, whether in the cosmos itself (the gnostic view), or by active spirit, as the charismatic view gnostic view), or by active spirit, as the charismatic view has it.

Few of the Church Fathers even mention it, and it seems that the only group that loved John as much as the evangelicals now do were the gnostics, and we know what the early Church did to them.

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

There are Gnostic Atheists (better known as Militant to some) and I believe they are lying also.

To state that you are not that, is a Gnostic Theist... and then we know you're insane!

What a far cry this statement is from a gnostic Neoplatonism wherein to know the One is to huddle alone with the One.

Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Baha'i, Jainists, Gnostics, Vajrayanists, Seicho - no - Ieinists, Cheondoists, and Tenrikyoists are but a few example of other believers with perfectly legitimate «proper» monotheistic theologies.

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.

They use to call gnostics heretics, you know?

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.

A gnostic atheist is one who would say «I know gods do not exist.»

The extreme stances would be the gnostic atheist who is convinced that God can't exist and the gnostic theist that is convinced that God has to exist and knows a bunch of details about Him.

If one insisted that one «knew» there was no God it would be referred to as «gnostic atheism».

These glosses called into question the creation of the world in time, the role of the senses and the imagination in human knowing, the individuality (and personal responsibility) of the human intellect and will, the immortality of the human composite of body and soul, the role of divine Providence, the simple standard of one truth governing both theology and philosophy, and other foundations of both Catholic faith and empirical (as distinct from gnostic) reason.

No, the gnostic gospels refer to others not included in the new testament, such as the gospel of thomas

They could recognize that everything in this gospel, no matter how close it might seem to be to authoritative tradition, had been given a special Gnostic twist.

Once known as gnostic cells, after the Greek word for knowledge, they were dubbed grandmother cells in the late 1960s by neuroscientist Jerome Lettvin of MIT.

An «A» - Gnostic is simply saying «I do not know» (which is functionally indistinguishable from «I see no evidence»).