Top Gnostic Quotes
Gnosticism is undeniably pre-Christian, with both Jewish and gentile roots. The wisdom of Solomon already contained Gnostic elements and prototypes for the Jesus of the Gospels...God stops being the L...
Arthur Drews
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wisdom, facts, church, paul, solomon, jewish, gnosticism, christ myth, historicity of jesus, christ myth theory
Gnostic Definition
(a.) Knowing; wise; shrewd.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy.
(n.) One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.
However it—or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces—can lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform ev...
Richard Bauckham
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wisdom, facts, church, paul, solomon, jewish, gnosticism, historicity of jesus, christ myth theory, epistles