Sentences with phrase «of gnostic»

«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).

One of the recent additions to this pantheon seems like a perfect fit: the William Blake Docs, offering your «choice of gnostic kicks for a night out,» as Dangerous Minds quips.

But I'm a fan of the Gnostic Media podcast, and the host (Jan Irvin) is constantly touting the benefits of ketosis & avoidance of wheat, etc., for ALL humans, saying that the brain & reproductive system function better when the body is in ketosis, and that glycolysis is actually the body's starvation mode, which leads to brain fog & degradation of health in the form of many common illnesses (particularly neuro - degenerative ones).

So, we're kind of gnostic when it comes to macronutrients.

Epiphanius says that Basilides, one of the greatest of the Gnostic thinkers, began with the question: «Whence comes evil?»

This antinomianism was a characteristic feature of Gnostic teaching, and it issued in the most deliberate and licentious immorality.

Second, the new knowledge now entrusted to this community (the very antithesis of gnostic secrets) is radically democratized.

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

There were people in John's day who taught a form of Gnostic dualism which taught that some sin came as a result of being born of God.

Brown seems unaware that the duality of Gnostic cosmology portrays the «flesh» and its appetites consistently in derogatory tones.

As David Yeago has noted in a critique of Gerhard Forde, the most eloquent American proponent of such an interpretation of Luther, in this scheme Lutheranism is reduced to a kind of gnostic sect.

Possible Jewish origins of Gnostic thought are stimulated in part by the wealth of material about Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve.

He uses the term only once, and that in what appears to be an adaptation of a Gnostic hymn.

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

To me this is a very Gnostic - sounding word raising the question whether Dr. Altizer's resolute dialectical inversion of Gnostic patterns of thought has really been successfully achieved.

and the exposition of the Church as the Body of Christ), he uses these concepts of Gnostic cosmology because he refuses to isolate the person of Jesus.

Theosophy was an occult cocktail made of Gnostic, Egyptian, and Hinduistic ingredients and topped off by a good shot of the Aryan myth.

Thus the form of Gnostic self - expression can be understood as a consequence of the direct impact of Socratic existence on highly civilized peoples prepared for the axial revolution, but not yet freed from the dominant power of the mythical.

Yet we find that, independently of Christianity, «spiritual existences» was the self - definition of the Gnostic as well.

However, according to preliminary reports, the Gospel of Thomas from Nag Hammadi actually contains a considerable body of sayings of Jesus, some of which are not purely of gnostic invention, but are of a type similar to those in the Synoptics.

The aim of the author was to establish the doctrine that marriage is sinful and Christians ought to abstain from it, and therefore the book was of Gnostic origin.

We get stuck because of our Gnostic worldview of spirit and flesh, emotion and action.

This sort of teaching was part of the Gnostic heresy in the early church, but has worked its way through numerous forms of the modern church as well.

Certainly the low Christology of the Qur» an matches well with some forms of Gnostic teaching: Jesus was not crucified (a substitute was found) and therefore was not resurrected; God instead snatched him up to immediate ascension.

Does the psychiatric literature shed light on personality types that are particularly susceptible to conspiracy thinking, or on the appeal of Gnostic subcultures that claim to possess secret knowledge?

Despite those critics who cite this fragment of Blake's vision as evidence of a Gnostic hatred of the body, we have only to recall his continual and ecstatic celebration of sexuality and the body to recognize these lines as containing a vision of the regeneration and reversal of a fallen sexuality.

Nor can we believe that the Word acts through a fleeting series of Gnostic mirages and masks.

In the Nag Hammadi Library, found in Egypt, 1945, a number of Gnostic texts were found.

You're thinking of the gnostic gospels which were written a long time later.

The glorying of the Jew over his faithfulness to the law and the glorying of the Gnostic in his wisdom are both illustrations of the dominant attitude of man, of his independence and autonomy which lead in the end to frustration.

Others modify that perception by a secondary use of gnostic and canonic categories.

Again, any echoes of the gnostic view — the structural opposite of the canonic position — were difficult to identify in members» accounts of crises.

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

Thus the dislocation of sign from reality by nominalism makes ready the manipulations of gnostic intellect.

The redefinition of marriage to exclude the difference between male and female bodies is deeply symbolic of this Gnostic revolution, which is why it's a focal point.

In the West a parallel to the cosmic nihilism of the Gnostics is found in Nietzsche.

He had the Gnostic gospels burned and many of the Gnostics were killed.

J. N. D. Kelly has described his contribution as «the twofold one of expounding the truth against (a) the crude literalism which pictured the body as being reconstituted, with all its physical functions, at the last day, and (b) the perverse spiritualism of the Gnostics and Manichees, who proposed to exclude the body from salvation».43

This was typical of the Gnostics, who had to supply each of their acons and their emanations with a genealogy and a history.

Ignatius (The Letter to Smyrna 6:2) says of the Gnostics of his day: «They give no heed to love, caring not for the widow, the orphan, the afflicted, neither for those who are in bonds, neither for the hungry nor the thirsty.»

Austin The Gospel of John almost didn't make it into the canon of the Bible because it was a favorite book of the Gnostics, deemed «heretics» by the winning variety of Christianity that was able to declare it's views orthodox.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

El Flaco, technically this was not the teaching of the Church scholars but gnostic writings from first centuries of Christianity.

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!).

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.»

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

Moreover, after Christ death, there were several competing groups of Christians each with their own version of Chrisitanity... (Much like today lol) Such as the gnostic gospels, and others that were destroyed by order of Roman emperors....

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

And there are probably a lesser number of hard core Gnostic Atheists (or true Atheists).