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Gnosticism

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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related to Modern times · 59
Gnosticism → Accordingly, Albert Camus, Albert Pike, Aleister Crowley, Alexandrian Gnostic Church, Alfred North Whitehead, Allen Ginsberg, Apostolic Johannite Church, Aramaic, Arthur Schopenhauer, Baptist, Carl Jung, Celia Green, Crowley's, Dick, Early, Ecclesia Gnostica, Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, Eric Voegelin, Essarts
related to Heresiologists · 38
Gnosticism → Adversus Valentinianos, Against, Against Heresies, Antoninus Pius, Carthage, Church Fathers, Colorbasus, First Apology, Flavia Neapolis, Gnostic, Heracleon, Heresies, Hippolytus, Irenaeus, It, Justin Martyr, Marcion, Marcus, Menander, Nag Hammadi
related to Development · 34
Gnosticism → According, Adolf, Apocrypha, Christian Gnosticism, Christianity, Dogma, During, Ernest Anton Lewald, From, Gnostic, Greece, Greek, Harnack, Hellenization, History, Horn, In, Jacques Matter, Jesus, Jewish
related to Origins · 31
Gnosticism → Alexandria, Ancient Greek, Apostle, Christian, Christianity, David Brakke, Elaine Pagels, Evangelist, Gnostic, Gnostics, Gospel, Greek, Halakha, Hellenistic, Hellenistic Judaism, Jesus, Jewish, Jewish Christianity, John, Judaic
related to Syriac–Egyptian Gnosticism · 31
Gnosticism → Apostle, Basilidians, Christian, Christianity, Egyptian, Egyptian Gnosticism, Evangelist, Gnostic, Gospel, Hermeticism, It, Jesus, John, Many, Mary, Mary Magdalene, Most, Nag Hammadi Library, Orthodox, Paul
related to Paul and Gnosticism · 29
Gnosticism → According, Alexandria, Cainites, Catholic, Christ, Christianity, Clement, Coptic Apocalypse, Corinthians, Elaine Pagels, Gnostic, Gnostics, God, Greek, However, In, James Dunn, Jewish, Jewish Christians, Many Nag Hammadi
related to Platonic influences · 27
Gnosticism → Against, Both, Both Sethian Gnostics, Congress, Demiurge, Enneads II, Gnostic, Gnostics, God, Greek, In, Messina, Middle Platonism, Neoplatonists, Neopythagorean, One, Orphic, Plato, Platonic, Platonism
related to Jewish Christian origins · 25
Gnosticism → Alexandrian Jews, Christian, Christian Gnostics, Church Fathers, Drower, Galilee, Gershom Scholem, Gilles Quispel, Gnostic, God, Hebrew, Jewish, Jewish Christians, Judaism, Maaseh Breshit, Maaseh Merkabah, Many, Persia, Quispel, Recent
related to Further reading · 24
Gnosticism → Barnstone, Christian Apocyrypha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Essential Gnostic Scriptures, Gnostic Scriptures, Harper, Human Beings, Hylic, ISBN, Jewish Pseudepigrapha, Kabbalah, Landi, Martin, Marvin, Meyer, Pneumatic, Primary, Psychic, Row, San Francisco
related to Sophia · 23
Gnosticism → Achamoth, AD, Because, Christ, Demiurge, Gnostic, God, Godhead, Greek, Hebrew, Holy Spirit, In, In Gnostic, Jesus, Jewish Gnosticism, Ptolemy's, She, Sophia, Sophia's, The

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Gnosticismis acollection of different religious and philosophical ideas and systems that fully developed by the mid-second century among sects of early Christianity and other faiths0.90text
Gnosticismis aform of monism0.90text
Gnosticismis aacute Hellenization of Christianity0.90text
Gnosticismis amap for the human development in which an undivided person0.90text
cosmic dualisminstance ofwhich adopted Gnostic concepts0.80text
emerged as a major religious movement in the third centuryinstance ofwhich adopted Gnostic concepts0.80text
briefly rivaling Christianity.Early Church Fathers denounced Gnostic ideas as heresyinstance ofwhich adopted Gnostic concepts0.80text
although early Gnostic teachers such as Valentinus saw themselves as Christiansinstance ofwhich adopted Gnostic concepts0.80text
Irenaeus of Lyonsinstance ofand often incomplete writings of early Christian figures0.80text
Hippolytus of Romeinstance ofand often incomplete writings of early Christian figures0.80text
Simone Pétrementinstance ofscholars0.80text
David Brakke have argued that Gnosticism originated as an intra-Christian movementinstance ofscholars0.80text

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