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Gnosticism
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Gnosticism a prominent heretical movement of the 2nd-century Christian Church, partly of pre-Christian origin. Gnostic doctrine taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity, the demiurge, and that Christ was an emissary of the remote supreme divine being, esoteric knowledge (
gnosis) of whom enabled the redemption of the human spirit.
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A History of Gnosticism.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 11/8/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...through whom he linked paganism to Gnosticism. Satinover claimed that in its striving for wholeness Gnosticism accommodates matter as well as spirit...to transcend conventional morality, Gnosticism relativizes morality. Finally, in...
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What Is Gnosticism?
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; KAREN L. KING, What Is Gnosticism? (Cambridge/London: Belknap...neither a history nor a definition of Gnosticism, as one might expect from the title...that created the faulty category "Gnosticism." King's purpose is "to contribute...
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Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 2/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature. By Birgir...familiar to anyone working in the field of Gnosticism and Nag Hammadi Studies. Produced...the past thirty years about ancient Gnosticism, much of it has been fairly impenetrable...
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Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; BIRGER A. PEARSON, Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature (Minneapolis...sources and testimonia. Ancient Gnosticism is a first-rate introduction...salient chapters entitled "What Is Gnosticism?" and "Gnostic Biblical Interpretation...
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What Is Gnosticism?(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; WHAT IS GNOSTICISM? By Karen L. King. Cambridge, Mass...characteristics, there is no such thing as gnosticism. As a construct used to define the...normative Christianity, however, gnosticism thrives. The problem, K. argues...
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Shorter reviews -- Gnosticism and the New Testament by Pheme Perkins
Magazine article from: Interpretation; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; Gnosticism and the New Testament, by Pheme Perkins...Perkins, an accomplished student of Gnosticism and of the New Testament, does just...narrative of the origins and development of Gnosticism, but to construct a mosaic of various...
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Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy: A Study in the History of Gnosticism
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Christian Heresy: A Study in the History of Gnosticism. By Alastair H. B. Logan. Peabody...to reverse the current consensus on gnosticism's origin and development. Against...Stroumsa, he argues that "Sethian Gnosticism" is "basically a Christian phenomenon...
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Gnosticism and the New Testament.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 3/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...collections of essays on the relation of Gnosticism and the New Testament, this is the...P. treats the relationship between Gnosticism and the NT in three parts. "Gnostic...investigates the question of a non-Christian Gnosticism that may have emerged prior to or concurrently...
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Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition, by John...no stranger to students of ancient Gnosticism. Indeed, he has been one of the leading...Codices as well as his work on Sethian Gnosticism. In this monumental and exhaustive...
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What is Gnosticism?
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; What is Gnosticism? By Karen L. King. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard...survey of twentieth-century scholarship on Gnosticism critiquing the scholarly construct of the category "Gnosticism" within the larger category of identity formation...
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Gnosticism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
GNOSTICISM. Gnosticism is a modern category used for defining a set of second-and third...Hebrew kabbalah, or Islamic esoteric traditions. However, in the Gnosticism of the second century c.e. a complex historical reality occurred...
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Main Leaders of Gnosticism
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
Main Leaders of Gnosticism Simon Magus: The earliest known Gnostic...Valentinus: Founder of the largest Gnosticism school which lasted into the fourth...able to return to God. Source: "gnosticism: ancient and modern." [online...
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Monism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...and plurality and difference are an illusion. Gnosticism. Gnosticism is the name given to various doctrines of salvation...religions as possible roots of Gnostic thought. Gnosticism came into contact with Judaism and early Christianity...
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Demonology
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...greatly facilitated by the emergence of Gnosticism (from Greek gnosis, "knowledge...the early years of the common era. Gnosticism held that the mortal realm was created...rejection of God linked Manichaeism to Gnosticism, but for the Gnostics the "real...
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Crucifixion, Gnostic Conception of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Crucifixion, Gnostic Conception of Gnosticism was a pre-Christian religious movement...beginning in the first century C.E. Gnosticism developed its own form of Christian...the New Testament. A basic tenet of Gnosticism is that the created, material world...
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