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Demiurge
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
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Demiurge. The English form of a Greek word meaning ‘craftsman’, used of the Divine Being by
Plato in his account of the formation of the visible world, and so by Christian writers of God as the Creator of all things. The
Gnostics used the word disparagingly of the inferior deity to whom they ascribed the origin of the material universe, distinguishing him from the supreme God.
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demiurge Software Announces CompanyTime.com Service.
Business Wire; 4/19/1999; 640 words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 1999-- demiurge software, the leading developer of E...information and start using the service. demiurge software is utilizing banner ad technology...quarter. Also, in the next release, demiurge software will be adding integration functionality...
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Pacere as the demiurge of orature.
Magazine article from: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Pacere as the demiurge of orature Not all unwritten literatures...consequently, to present him as the demiurge of this innovative genre in emerging...Pacere is one of them. He is the demiurge or creator of a new kind of print literature...
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Every man a demiurge: a matrix of your own.
Magazine article from: Reason; 2/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...paranoid thrillers about inauthentic realities. Call it the demiurge cycle, after the Gnostic notion that our world is governed...proclaim the tritest sort of faith. When critics comment on the demiurge genre, they usually cite the novelist Philip K. Dick as its...
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Pierre Bruneau: peintre demiurge (Viens) (exposition).
Magazine article from: Etc. Montreal; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...texturee. Cette installation monochrome jaune verdatre se presente comme element architectural ajoute, presqu'un mobilier. Demiurge, l'artiste oublie les codes familiers et les regles de base de la peinture, il delaisse les outils et les moyens habituels...
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Every Man a Demiurge.(Letters)
Magazine article from: Reason; 5/1/2004; ; 512 words
; Jesse Walker's "Every Man a Demiurge" (February) traces the rise and demise of an entertainment genre depicting reality as an illusion or simulation. A similar...
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Demiurges in the short fiction of Pee Wee Herman.(analysis of canonical works)
Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; What the ghost really needs is not echoing passages and hidden doors behind tapestry, but only continuity and silence" (Ghost Stories 3). This passage in the author's Preface to The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton refers ostensibly to the physical silence that she found increasingly unavailable in
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Caliban upon the demiurge: gnosticism on the island in "Caliban upon Setebos".
Magazine article from: Victorian Newsletter; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; In a seminal article on Robert Browning's "Caliban upon Setebos: Natural Theology on the Island," C. R. Tracy summarizes various interpretations of the poem. One is to see it as a play on the argument by design. In Natural Theology (1802), William Paley proposed a metaphor that explains this
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DOCTOR AS DEMIURGE.(physician and patient relationship)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 5/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; THE LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DOCTORS AND PATIENTS Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses you may have of him, for the Lord hath created him. For of the most high cometh healing --Ecclesiasticus 38 MANCHESTER DOCTOR Harold Shipman was found guilty of murdering fifteen
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Francesco Gennari: Galleria Zero.(Italian artist)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...artist went so far as to use the word demiurge to describe himself. The show's title...superhuman after all about the action of this demiurge--the form assumes a function after...clothes stand. The universe that the demiurge creates is a small universe of microevents...
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Francesco Gennari
Magazine article from: Artforum; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...artist went so far as to use the word demiurge to describe himself. The show's title...superhuman after all about the action of this demiurge-the form assumes a function after the...clothes stand. The universe that the demiurge creates is a small universe of microevents...
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demiurge
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
demiurge [Gr.,=workman, craftsman], name...to the creator God. In Gnosticism the Demiurge, creator of the material world, was...aeons. According to the Gnostics, the Demiurge was able to endow man only with psyche...
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Demiurge
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Demiurge. The English form of a Greek word meaning ‘craftsman’, used of the Divine Being by Plato in his account...
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Space and Time
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...the cosmos was the work of a divine craftsman, the demiurge. The demiurge was not to be conceived as a god in the sense of...identified as time. Therefore, at the creation, the demiurge had produced time as well as space. Both Plato and...
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Gnosticism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...founder of the sect. Gnostic teaching distinguished between the Demiurge or ‘creator god’ and the supreme and unknowable Divine Being. From the latter the Demiurge was derived by a series of emanations or ‘aeons...
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Valentinus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the Holy Spirit, and Jesus the Savior, who is the "common fruit" of the pleroma. Ruler of the outcast world is the proud Demiurge, identified with the deity of the Old Testament, who created the forms of life by which man is ensnared. Jesus appears in...
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