- Gnosticism - Wikipedia
Gnostic and pseudo-Gnostic ideas became influential in some of the philosophies of various esoteric mystical movements of the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe and North America, including some that explicitly identify themselves as revivals or even continuations of earlier Gnostic groups
- Gnosticism | Definition, Texts, Movements, Influence | Britannica
gnosticism, any of various related philosophical and religious movements prominent in the Greco-Roman world in the early Christian era, particularly the 2nd century The designation gnosticism is a term of modern scholarship
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Gnosticism is a type of early Christianity that taught that the material world was created by an evil being, and that Christ came to earth to liberate people from this evil world through the spiritual experience called “gnosis” – the root of the word “Gnostic ”
- GNOSTIC Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of GNOSTIC is an adherent of gnosticism
- The Gnostic World View: A Brief Summary of Gnosticism
In the Gnostic view, there is a true, ultimate and transcendent God, who is beyond all created universes and who never created anything in the sense in which the word “create” is ordinarily understood
- Gnosticism Definition and Beliefs Explained - Learn Religions
Gnosticism was a second-century religious movement claiming that salvation could be gained through a special form of secret knowledge Adherents believed that the material world was created by a lesser divinity, and only through this esoteric wisdom could one transcend this flawed reality
- Gnosticism | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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 CE
- What is gnosticism? - U. S. Catholic
Much of early Christianity was consumed with refuting gnostic theology The gnostics were not a single uniform group Gnosticism began in second-century Christianity and had many forms through the fifth century
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