Sentences with phrase «on gnostic»

But as Joe Anderson pointed out, the traditional categories seem to be based on Gnostic ideals.

That opinion would be based on a gnostic misinterpretation for which the highest form of the love is the painful renouncing and suffering love; cf. against this misinterpretation: Faber (1995) 405 - 420.

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And even Christianity, a religion founded on the notion, had its deniers as well» most notably the Gnostics.

Some Gnostics believe it was someone else, someone called Simon, who was killed on that occasion.»

I'm sure the «I see the Virgin Mary on a piece of toast» crowd considers themselves to be gnostic, but the reality is that none of us are.

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.

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.

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

The Gnostics completely turn what Christians believe about Satan on its head, and I think there is real danger in digging into the fall of Satan too hard.

Apocalyptic visions flirt with gnostic aeons and Stoic conflagrations, while affirmations of creation lean toward Pelagian schemes of human progress and Epicurean fixations on the here - and - now.

The Gnostic Jesus (Part One in a Two - Part Series on Ancient and Modern Gnosticism) by Douglas Groothuis: equip.org/free/DG040-1.htm 11.

A university dropout and part - time pornographer, Fritz managed to fabricate a Gnostic artifact that duped one of the world's leading experts on early, extra-canonical Christianity, plus enough of her peers to satisfy the Harvard Theological Review.

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.

This is why, at one point in the book, I grant the Gnostics of old the validity of their questions, though I go on to revile the answers at which they arrived.

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.

(He is alternately called Demiurge, Samael, and Ialdabaoth, depending on which gnostic teacher you read).

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?

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

He would not defy science on romantic or gnostic grounds.

You are looking for a gnostic take on this, again something the new testament writers were opposed to, as well as those that met to canonize the New Testament.

But he cautions that «the comparison with the Pelagian and Gnostic heresies intends only to recall general common features, without entering into judgments on the exact nature of the ancient errors.»

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.

Also, the understanding of Gnosticism reflected in the Appendix is largely dependent on Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion.

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.

His failure to interpret correctly the philosophical and theological traditions that precede this revolution shows how difficult it is to think outside the nominalist and Gnostic horizon once we're inside it, especially when our technologically mediated relationship to the natural world and our own bodies reinforces its hold on us.

A gnostic atheist, on the other hand, says that there are no god (s), period.

If any Christians are currently promoting a «gnostic split of soul and body,» it is those on the left who seem satisfied with social programs that feed the body but starve the soul and, even worse, turn a blind eye to growing efforts by the government to discriminate against faith - based charities that are serious about ministering to the whole person.

Many Gnostic Christians believed that, because of his divine origins, Jesus did not suffer on the cross, that the heavens were populated by all sorts of entities including a lower Creator God and a superior God of Light — and that knowledge of one's ultimate origins from the latter was the key to salvation.

In fact, many Gnostic Christians could not reconcile the idea of Jesus being fully God and fully man because they believed the supreme spiritual Being could not take on a physical identity without defiling His holiness.

To add an image to Professor Robert P. George's reflections on the intimate union of the «body - self» in his typically thought - provoking article «Gnostic Liberalism» (December 2016), I share the Pauline «body of Christ.»

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.

To say that the word became flesh (1: 14), to insist on Jesus» thirst and weariness, and the reality of his death (20:27), is to argue directly against the basic gnostic idea of the unreality of this world.

7, on the one hand, and the Gnostic redeemer on the other, lies in the relation of the former to Jahweh and his revelation of himself in history.)

On Coptic language have been made several Gnostic false gospels as the purpose to distort genuine Biblical gospels.

I was very careful not to mention any specific gods either, merely giving a general criteria on what kind of god I would take a gnostic atheist stance on.

On the other hand, the fact that the Coptic manuscript is dated several hundred years after his resurrection, and neatly fragmented with the writing cut - off in the «right» place, suggests that the message most likely would have been a heretical Gnostic scripture, something that was fairly common at the time.

Her conclusion is that Gnostic Christians merely expanded on traditions once shared widely.

The Gnostics allowed this immorality on three grounds: (i) Spiritual things are provided for the spiritual nature and carnal things for the carnal nature; the carnal nature legitimately and properly expresses itself in the things of the flesh.

Before answering Tommaso Maria Gras» argument, I have to admit that I am thrown off by the phrase «the gnostic dream of building paradise on earth,» which is about as total a contradiction in terms as one could imagine.

What Peter Leithart is reading about: J. Louis Martyn on Paul, gnostic Protestantism, Sergei Bulgakov, Jenson, writers writing about writers, modes of existence, movie remakes, and religious freedom.

Gnostic teaching, with its emphasis on spirit and its condemnation of matter, came preaching either that it did not matter what a man does with his body, or that it was nothing less than a duty to give the fleshly nature its full sway.

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.

Caesars and pharisees of the religious right should shiver in their shoes at news of a living, embodied savior (while Gnostics of all types concentrate on some world other than this one).

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.

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.

For in this very text and a related place71 Clement goes on to say that though the Christian gnostic or seeker will conform to church life as it is ordered by the ordained clergy, spiritually, he is already on his way to becoming himself an angel, indeed, divine:

His use of terminology also found among Gnostics suggests either that he is Christianizing their vocabulary or that both he and they are drawing on a common stock of expressions.

Life and love are neglected as he labors obsessively on his Catalogue of Obsolete Entertainments, where he contemplates the Gnostic essence of Donkey Kong, and applies a Marxist critique to Pac - Man's bottomless appetite for consumption.

This foundational void was first the site of research by the Ancient Gnostics who passed it on to H.P. Lovecraft — like Lucier, a New Englander — and from him to the most advanced of death metal bands.

The «prohibition against asking questions», currently being practiced by proponents of «consensus» Climate Science, is a polemical device of modern gnostics — i.e. of those who preach Salvation through the acquisition of Hidden Knowledge, in the form of Systems constructed by the Enlightened Elite — as part of intellectual swindles in a variety of venues, all focused on obtaining political power.