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Freemasons
Freemasonry An occult movement of the seventeenth century. Freemasonry emerged as the British form of revived gnosticism analogous to the Rosicrucian movement in Germany. While having its roots in the architectural and construction guilds of the Middle Ages, modern masonry is rooted in the... Read more |
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Basilides
Basilides , fl. 120-145, Gnostic teacher of Alexandria. He wrote Exegitica (his personal gospel with 24 books of commentary) and poems. He claimed to possess a secret tradition handed down from St. Peter and St. Matthias. The Basilidean sect of Gnosticism attracted many followers.... Read more |
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Gnosticism
Gnosticism , dualistic religious and philosophical movement of the late Hellenistic and early Christian eras. The term designates a wide assortment of sects, numerous by the 2d cent. AD; they all promised salvation through an occult knowledge that they claimed was revealed to them alone. Scholars... Read more |
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demiurge
demiurge [Gr.,=workman, craftsman], name given by Plato in a mythological passage in the Timaeus to the creator God. In Gnosticism the Demiurge, creator of the material world, was not God but the Archon, or chief of the lowest order of spirits or aeons. According to the Gnostics, the Demiurge... Read more |
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Bardesanes
Bardesanes , 154?-222?, Christian philosopher and poet of Syria, missionary among the Armenians. Conflicting traditions report him both as defender of the faith against various Gnostic sects and as a heretic and founder of Bardesanism.... Read more |
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Simon Magus
Simon Magus , Samaritan sorcerer who attempted to buy spiritual power from the apostles. From this comes the term simony . He is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. He was said to have founded a Gnostic sect.... Read more |
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abracadabra
abracadabra , magical formula used by the Gnostics (see Gnosticism ) to invoke the aid of benevolent spirits to ward off disease and affliction. It is supposed to be derived from the abraxas, a word that was engraved on gems and amulets or was variously worn as a protective charm. Handed down... Read more |
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Nag Hammadi
Nag Hammadi , a town in Egypt near the ancient town of Chenoboskion, where, in 1945, a large cache of gnostic texts in the Coptic language was discovered. The Nag Hammadi manuscripts, dating from the 4th cent. AD, include 12 codices of tractates, one loose tractate, and a copy of Plato's Republic... Read more |
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Docetism
Docetism [Gr.,=to appear], early heretical trend in Christian thought. Docetists claimed that Christ was a mere phantasm who only seemed to live and suffer. A similar tendency to deny Jesus' humanity appeared in the teachings of Simon Magus, Marcion, Gnosticism, and certain phases of monarchianism.... Read more |
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Gnosis
Gnosis Gnosis , a journal of the Western Inner Tradition, was first issued in 1985 and quickly emerged as one of the highest quality newsstand periodicals serving the groups and individuals whose spiritual vision has emerged out of the Western alternative spiritual tradition that has collectively... Read more |
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John, gospel of
...that, whereas they give us history, he gives us theology. ( Clement...theological interpretation of the history, and John's theology is...that John was influenced by Gnosticism, seeing Jesus as a divine...which is very different from Gnosticism. Against the ... |
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John, Apocryphon of
John, Apocryphon of. A Coptic document known since 1896 of which three further copies were found at Nag Hammadi. It takes the form of a dialogue between Christ and the Apostle St John. It is important for the early history of Gnosticism. |
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Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy: A Study in the History of Gnosticism
...Christian Heresy: A Study in the History of Gnosticism. By Alastair H. B. Logan...reverse the current consensus on gnosticism's origin and development...Stroumsa, he argues that "Sethian Gnosticism" is "basically a Christian... |
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Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy: A Study in the History of Gnosticism.
...earliest mythological roots of gnosticism developed alongside early...defend the patristic view that gnosticism emerges from Christian circles...attempts to defend the view that gnosticism originated as Christian speculation...various redactions and textual ... |
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Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy. A Study in the History of Gnosticism
...Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy. A Study in the History of Gnosticism. By Alastair H. B. Logan. (Edinburgh: T & T...three "hypotheses." (1) "The form or forms of Gnosticism found in the so-called 'Sethian' texts cannot... |
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Gnosticism or not?: Varied accounts cloud the history of Jesus
...walking, talking and making history. Few people knew Jesus then...reflect a form of faith known as Gnosticism. It's these gospels that...centuries after Jesus' death, Gnosticism was apparently a powerful...many. Brown's vision of Gnosticism also is more ... |
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Plato's Parmenides and its heritage; v.1: History and interpretation from the...
9781589834491 Plato's Parmenides and its heritage; v.1: History and interpretation from the old academy to later platonism and gnosticism. Seminar, "Rethinking Plato's Parmenides and its...Reception" (2001... |
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Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature.(Book review)
...indeed such a thing as ancient Gnosticism (and thus, ancient Gnostics...emphasis on the Jewish origins of Gnosticism is perhaps his trademark contribution...to neglect this aspect of Gnosticism's intellectual history. As a textbook, this volume... |
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Shorter reviews -- Gnosticism and the New Testament by Pheme Perkins
...is evident. For Perkins Gnosticism is not, as ecclesiastical...as representatives of the history-of-religions school maintained. Gnosticism emerged in the first century...somewhat obscure inception, Gnosticism flourished in the environment... |
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What Is Gnosticism?(Book Review)
...origin and genealogy of gnosticism more often serves the...Harnack's casting of gnosticism as the "acute Hellenization...chap. 3). Although history-of-religions scholars...challenged the notion that gnosticism was a Christian heresy... |
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Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition
...posited by earlier scholars: Gnosticism as a form of Platonism (i...Platonism as incipient Gnosticism; and Gnosticism and Platonism as interdependent...Seth; (7) the three ages of history with the appearance of a savior... |
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What is Gnosticism?
...century scholarship on Gnosticism critiquing the scholarly...construct of the category "Gnosticism" within the larger category...write a more accurate history of ancient Christianity...modern scholars of Gnosticism understand it to be a... |
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