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Gnosticism is a collection of different religious and philosophical ideas and systems that fully developed by the mid-second century among sects of early Christianity and other faiths. It is not a singular, homogeneous tradition or religion, but an umbrella term used by modern scholars to describe different groups and beliefs that shared certain…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Gnosticism | is a | collection of different religious and philosophical ideas and systems that fully developed by the mid-second century among sects of early Christianity and other faiths | 0.90 | text |
| Gnosticism | is a | form of monism | 0.90 | text |
| Gnosticism | is a | acute Hellenization of Christianity | 0.90 | text |
| Gnosticism | is a | map for the human development in which an undivided person | 0.90 | text |
| cosmic dualism | instance of | which adopted Gnostic concepts | 0.80 | text |
| emerged as a major religious movement in the third century | instance of | which adopted Gnostic concepts | 0.80 | text |
| briefly rivaling Christianity.Early Church Fathers denounced Gnostic ideas as heresy | instance of | which adopted Gnostic concepts | 0.80 | text |
| although early Gnostic teachers such as Valentinus saw themselves as Christians | instance of | which adopted Gnostic concepts | 0.80 | text |
| Irenaeus of Lyons | instance of | and often incomplete writings of early Christian figures | 0.80 | text |
| Hippolytus of Rome | instance of | and often incomplete writings of early Christian figures | 0.80 | text |
| Simone Pétrement | instance of | scholars | 0.80 | text |
| David Brakke have argued that Gnosticism originated as an intra-Christian movement | instance of | scholars | 0.80 | text |
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