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1. Gnosticism: Gnosticism is a general term describing various mystically-oriented groups and their teachings, which were most prominent in the first few centuries of the Common Era. It is also applied to later and modern revivals of these teachings. The term ... [100%] 2023-02-03
2. Gnosticism: Gnosticism (after gnôsis, the Greek word for "knowledge" or "insight") is the name given to a loosely organized religious and philosophical movement that flourished in the first and second centuries A.D. Though the exact origins of this school of ... [100%] 2023-02-17 [Christian History] [Heresies]...
3. Gnosticism: Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek:, Koine Greek: [ɣnostiˈkos], 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems which originated in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects. These various groups emphasised personal spiritual knowledge (gnosis) above ... (Collection of religious ideas and systems among early Christian and Jewish sects) [100%] 2021-12-22 [Spirituality]
4. Gnosticism: Gnosticism is the belief that human beings contain a piece of God (the highest good or a divine spark) within themselves, which has fallen from the immaterial world into the bodies of humans. All physical matter is subject to decay ... [100%] 2021-04-09
5. Gnosticism: An esoteric system of theology and philosophy. It presents one of the most obscure and complicated problems in the general history of religion. It forced itself into prominence in the first centuries of the common era, and the Church Fathers ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
6. Gnosticism: Gnosticism is a general term describing various mystically-oriented groups and their teachings, which were most prominent in the first few centuries of the Common Era. It is also applied to later and modern revivals of these teachings. The term ... [100%] 2023-02-04
7. Gnosticism: Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: γνωστικός, romanized: gnōstikós, Koine Greek: [ɣnostiˈkos], 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects. These various groups emphasized personal spiritual knowledge ... (Early Christian and Jewish religious systems) [100%] 2024-01-13 [Gnosticism] [1st-century establishments]...
8. Gnosticism: Gnosticism is a hard-to-understand mystical religious idea or philosophy rooted in the idea of secret knowledge about god and the spirit, built on the core idea that the physical world is evil and that salvation comes through gnosis ... [100%] 2024-01-14 [Christianity] [Religions]...
9. Gnosticism: GNOSTICISM nos'-ti-siz'-m: I. GENERAL DEFINITION II. SOURCES OF GNOSTICISM 1. Alexandrian Philosophy 2. Zoroastrianism III. NATURE OF GNOSTICISM Chief Points IV. GNOSTICISM IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH 1. Colossians 2. 1 Corinthians: "Knowledge" at Corinth 3. Pastoral Epistles ... [100%] 1915-01-01
10. Gnosticism: Gnosticism is a general term describing various mystically-oriented groups and their teachings, which were most prominent in the first few centuries of the Common Era. It is also applied to later and modern revivals of these teachings. The term ... [100%] 2023-02-04
11. Gnosticism: Gnosticism, the name generally applied to that spiritual movement existing side by side with genuine Christianity, as it gradually crystallized into the old Catholic Church, which may roughly be defined as a distinct religious syncretism bearing the strong impress of ... [100%] 2022-09-02
12. Rethinking Gnosticism: Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category, is a 1996 book by Michael Allen Williams. This is one of the first critical works that goes about comparing the established academic definitions of gnosticism to the texts discovered at ... (1996 book by Michael Allen Williams) [70%] 2024-07-16 [Religious studies books] [Gnosticism]...
13. Neoplatonism and Gnosticism: Gnosticism refers to a collection of religious groups originating in Jewish religiosity in Alexandria in the first few centuries CE. Neoplatonism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that took shape in the 3rd century, based on the teachings of Plato ... (Philosophy) [57%] 2023-03-30 [Neoplatonism]
14. Buddhism and Gnosticism: Buddhologist Edward Conze (1966) has proposed that similarities existed between Buddhism and Gnosticism, a term deriving from the name "Gnostics" given to a number of Christian sects. To the extent that the Buddha taught the existence of evil inclinations that ... (Religion) [57%] 2023-10-18
15. Agnosticism or Gnosticism: Template:Use DMY dates Comparative Religion CORE 130 textbooks: 'Wisdom crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the opening of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words saying: ... the fools hate knowledge. [57%] 2023-03-01 [Theology] [Comparative Religion]...
16. Gnosticism in modern times: Gnosticism in modern times (or Neo-Gnosticism) includes a variety of contemporary religious movements, stemming from Gnostic ideas and systems from ancient Roman society. Gnosticism is an ancient name for a variety of religious ideas and systems, originating in Jewish ... (Religion) [50%] 2023-08-25 [Gnosticism]
17. Neo-Gnosticism: Neo-gnosticism, from the Greek words neo- "new", and gnostikos, from gnosis "knowledge", and -ismos "doctrine, system", is a generic term used to describe any resurgence of the ancient Gnostic belief in salvation through grasping the teachings of an esoteric ... [70%] 2023-02-22
18. Pneumatic (Gnosticism): The pneumatics ("spiritual", from Greek πνεῦμα, "spirit") were, in Gnosticism, the highest order of humans, the other two orders being psychics and hylics ("matter"). A pneumatic saw itself as escaping the doom of the material world via the transcendent knowledge of ... (Gnosticism) [70%] 2023-08-24 [Gnosticism] [Mysticism]...
19. Proto-Gnosticism: Proto-Gnosticism or pre-Gnosticism refers to movements similar to Gnosticism in the first few centuries of Christianity. Proto-Gnostics did not have the same full fledged theology of the later Gnostics but prefigured some of their views. (Philosophy) [70%] 2023-11-30 [Gnosticism] [Spirituality]...
20. Monad (Gnosticism): The Monad in Gnosticism is an adaptation of concepts of the Monad in Greek philosophy to Christian gnostic belief systems. The term monad comes from the Greek feminine noun monas (nominative singular, μονάς), "one unit," where the ending -s in the ... (Religion) [70%] 2023-08-25 [Gnosticism] [Conceptions of God]...
21. Aeon (Gnosticism): In many Gnostic systems, various emanations of God are known by such names as One, Monad, Aion teleos (αἰών τέλεος "The Broadest Aeon"), Bythos (βυθός, "depth" or "profundity"), Proarkhe ("before the beginning", προαρχή), Arkhe ("the beginning", ἀρχή), and Aeons. In different systems these emanations are ... (Religion) [70%] 2024-01-26 [Gnosticism]
22. Yao (Gnosticism): In Sethian Gnosticism, Yao or Iao (Ἰαω) is an archon. In On the Origin of the World, he is one of the three sons of Yaldabaoth, with the other two being Astaphaios and Eloai. (Gnosticism) [70%] 2023-08-25 [Gnostic deities]
23. Sophia (Gnosticism): Sophia (Koinē Greek: Σοφíα "Wisdom", Coptic: ⲧⲥⲟⲫⲓⲁ "the Sophia") is a major theme, along with Knowledge (γνῶσις gnosis, Coptic sooun), among many of the early Christian knowledge-theologies grouped by the heresiologist Irenaeus as gnostikoi (γνωστικοί), ‘knowing’ or ‘men that claimed to have deeper wisdom ... (Gnosticism) [70%] 2023-12-18 [Gnosticism] [Wisdom]...
24. Aeon (Gnosticism): In many Gnostic systems, various emanations of God are known by such names as One, Monad, Aion teleos (αἰών τέλεος "The Broadest Aeon"), Bythos (βυθός, "depth" or "profundity"), Proarkhe ("before the beginning", προαρχή), Arkhe ("the beginning", ἀρχή), and Aeons. In different systems these emanations are ... (Religion) [70%] 2023-07-23 [Gnosticism]
25. Sophia (Gnosticism): Sophia (Koinē Greek: Σοφíα "Wisdom", Coptic: ⲧⲥⲟⲫⲓⲁ "the Sophia") is a major theme, along with Knowledge (γνῶσις gnosis, Coptic sooun), among many of the early Christian knowledge-theologies grouped by the heresiologist Irenaeus as gnostikoi (γνωστικοί), "knowing" or "men that claimed to have deeper wisdom ... (Gnosticism) [70%] 2023-08-20 [Gnosticism] [Gnostic deities]...
26. Ogdoad (Gnosticism): The concept of an Ogdoad appears in Gnostic systems of the early Christian era, and was further developed by the theologian Valentinus (ca. 160 AD). (Religion) [70%] 2023-11-05 [Gnosticism]
27. Proto-Gnosticism: Proto-Gnosticism or pre-Gnosticism refers to movements similar to Gnosticism in the first few centuries of Christianity. Proto-Gnostics did not have the same full fledged theology of the later Gnostics but prefigured some of their views. (Precursors to Gnosticism) [70%] 2023-11-27 [Gnosticism] [1st-century establishments]...
28. Archon (Gnosticism): Archons (Greek: ἄρχων, romanized: árchōn, plural: ἄρχοντες, árchontes) in Gnosticism and religions closely related to it, are the builders of the physical universe. Among the Archontics, Ophites, Sethians and in the writings of Nag Hammadi library, the archons are rulers, each related ... (Gnosticism) [70%] 2023-08-23 [Demons in Gnosticism] [Evil deities]...
29. Monad (Gnosticism): The Monad in Gnosticism is an adaptation of concepts of the Monad in Greek philosophy to Christian gnostic belief systems. The term monad comes from the Greek feminine noun monas (nominative singular, μονάς), "one unit," where the ending -s in the ... (Gnosticism) [70%] 2023-11-19 [Conceptions of God]