Sentences with phrase «of gnosticism»

Voegelin was even led to suggest that liberalism and totalitarianism, so commonly regarded in our times as polar opposites, were both fundamentally forms of gnosticism.

This is just a new kind of gnosticism with its own esoteric knowledge reserved for the initiated who desire to escape the tangible realities of this fleshy world and ascend to the unsullied heights of theological thought.

The first expression of gnosticism hid in the spiritual nature of the human person and focused on meditation and sacrifice.

The newer generations are growing toward a tendency of gnosticism.

The second expression of gnosticism rejected the existence of the soul and wallowed in the base materiality of the human body, centring solely on empty self - pleasure and raw power.

Eric Voegelin, author of the magisterial Order and History and one of greatest historical philosophers of our age, saw in communism a secularized variety of gnosticism.

Plenty of people claim their opponents are gnostic, but nobody ever claims for themselves the badge or category of gnosticism.

This book is the third of the projected four in John Crowley's major novelistic treatment of gnosticism and hermeticism.

But his terms were the opposite of the gnosticism we hear noised abroad in our day.

The charge of gnosticism has never made much sense to me, because it explains too much and seems to offer a glimpse into the secret motivations of the opponent.

The sad consequence of gnosticism is that its etherealized piety and its demand for esoteric knowledge make it largely irrelevant to human history.

The Thomas version of this parable has been transformed in the service of gnosticism.

Voegelin's hostility toward ideology and revolutionary action flows from his concept of gnosticism — one of the most widely known and debated of his ideas.

Voegelin's interpretation of gnosticism provides a dramatic way of conceptualizing the history of political though and even of Western culture.

You seem to be bordering on a form of gnosticism.

In his fiction, the church exists on the periphery of the community's fellowship, and exhibits what philosopher Norman Wirzba calls a «disincarnate form of Christianity,» a kind of gnosticism, isolated and disconnected from where the people live their lives during the week.

It was no doubt a form of gnosticism, which creates and elite body of insiders who cultivate a higher form of religion that despises common people, common things and anything that has to do with a commitment to a moral life.

This attitude represents a kind of gnosticism, as Oakeshott explicitly observed, and he traced the rise of Rationalism to a concurrent falling away from faith.