Sentences with phrase «more gnostic»

In fact, Delvoye is more Gnostic than Catholic, as his penchant for converting the quotidian into fine - art «gold» attests.

Bloom declares that the American religion is not Protestant or Christian but Gnostic, that even most American Methodists, Roman Catholics, and even Jews and Muslims are more Gnostic than normative in their deepest and unwariest beliefs.

Even our secularists, indeed even our professed atheists, are more Gnostic than humanist in their ultimate presuppositions.

Or, one could take a more Gnostic approach and turn the whole story round on Yahweh, indicting him, as did early Christian ministers like Valentinus.

Not exact matches

At the end, having agonized through much of the poem over the questions posed by his gnostic favorites, he comes back much more strongly to a defense of the categories of Christian worship.

Perhaps even more unfortunate for them, is that that translation remains pretty much forgotten by academia, laity, and other Gnostic organizations.

Yet so to apotheosize earthly existence is, almost inevitably, to have gnostic contempt for it, to see it as the realm of darkness more than light.

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.

This view is a little too mystical (or maybe even Gnostic) for most Christians, and yet it can not be proven or disproven from the text any more than the traditional view that God killed an animal to make clothes for Adam and Eve.

Charismatic negotiations are more significant for churches F, G, and J. Church K is guided by a gnostic orientation.

The traditional Christian message is probably far from the truth, and the more one learns about the Gnostic Gospels, the more one begins to feel this has to be the case.

Logion 3 is a much more highly developed and gnosticized version of the saying; the question and the two negations have disappeared, and in their place we have, in fact, a highly developed gnostic midrash on the original affirmation, the Kingdom is entos hymon.

The most probable conclusion to draw from passages of this sort is that either Thomas or earlier Gnostic tradition made use of the canonical gospels at points where we find parallels, and that there is no reason to suppose that any passage in Thomas (in spite of interesting textual variants) provides an earlier or a more reliable version of any saying of Jesus.

For some this has meant a more and more complete determinism and naturalism, for others a return to Gnostic ideas of dualism or early Protestant emphases on original sin.

Such a view would be more appropriate for proponents of ancient gnostic theories, come alive again in our day, than for those who profess a biblical basis for their religion.

Hence, the movement from apocalypticism to the Gnostic rejection of law was more abrupt than that from Stoicism.

They would argue that it stems more from Greek and gnostic influences than from the Bible itself.

Such a «gnostic» idea, tempting though it has been since very early in the history of Christianity, trivializes the idea of revelation, making it appeal more to our sense of curiosity than to our need for transformation and hope.

(Never mind that the canonical Jesus is far more appealing than the docetic Jesus of the Gnostic gospels.)

Now he confesses hostility to Catholic belief and sympathy for «Gnostic texts that allow women a discipleship and see Jesus more as a spiritual person and not as a demigod.»

More likely, it was a fictional collection put together by gnostics, falsely attributed to the Apostle Thomas to try to lend it credibility.

There is an ancient Christian tradition (more prevalent among the Gnostics, IIRC; there's no supporting verse in Scripture) that Jesus was lame in one leg.

Whether or not Jung may truly be identified as a Gnostic (and he has so identified himself on numerous occasions), there is nothing in what he describes as individuation that is not far more fully present in classical mystical ways of both the East and West.

The Gnostic gospels were indeed «scripture» far more so than the present form of the so called «Holy Bible».

Perhaps some of that will be learned from texts of the Essenes or Gnostics or Zoroastrians as we learn more.

This is directed against the Gnostics who claimed that they were in the most intimate possible fellowship with God, fellowship not even possible for the ordinary man, and who yet wallowed in sin, either on the principle that the body is evil and therefore it does not matter what is done with it or in it, or on the principle that in sin the body does no more than fulfil its own nature, and that in either case the spirit is left quite untouched.

The Gnostics divided men into two classes, the pneumatikoi, the spiritual ones, for whom such knowledge is a possibility and to whom such knowledge is open, and the psuchikoi, those who, as it were, have no more than an animal soul, and for whom such knowledge is impossible and to whom such knowledge is a closed book.

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.

Although the ideas of Clement and Origen about teachers, gnostics, and angels are important for the later theories both of prelacy and the pastoral function of the monks, we must return to Rome and Carthage for the more immediately significant developments in the history of the ancient ministries of the Church.

I'm more for the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, as I believe they are the closest anyone will ever be to the man called Jesus.

«If I want to reach wisdom, I have to learn to be humble, and after I get wiser I have to become more humble than before» (VM Samael Aun Weor, founder of international schools of gnostic - anthropology).