Gnostic is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GNOSTIC in dictionary:

NOUN:
• one who knows
• an adherent of Gnosticism.
• 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.
• an advocate of Gnosticism
ADJECTIVE:
• knowing; wise; shrewd, also GNOSTICAL
• relating to knowledge, especially esoteric mystical knowledge.
• relating to Gnosticism.
• of, relating to, or possessing knowledge
• Knowing; wise; shrewd.
• Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy.
• of or relating to Gnosticism
• possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things

Words related to GNOSTIC

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Words that contain GNOSTIC

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How to use GNOSTIC in a sentence

• The Gnostic trinity of Manes consisted of one God and two principles, one of good and the other of evil.
• It furnished a great bulwark against the Gnostic teachers, who had come to deny the diety of Jesus.
• Never certainly did the brethren at Rome more require the services of a skilful and energetic leader, than when the Gnostic chiefs settled in the great metropolis.
• On the other hand, according to Clement, the true Gnostic has an office like that of the Apostles.
• Hence we must compare not only the Gnostic Christ, but the Gnostic Sophia, with the Christ of the Church.
• Irenaeus certainly tried to mark off the Church use of the Scriptures as distinguished from the Gnostic practice.
• The Gnostic Schools and the Marcionite Church are to some extent the answer.
• On the other hand, the turning away from Judaism is also the result of the mass of things which were held in common with it, even in Gnostic circles.
• This conception is earlier than the great Gnostic crisis, for the Gnostics also shared it.
• It is of value to Ignatius only, who has before his mind the full Gnostic contrast.
• The Encratite controversy was, on the one hand, swallowed up by the Gnostic, and on the other hand, replaced by the Montanistic.
• A deeper, more thorough distinction between the Church and the Gnostic parties hardly dawned on the consciousness of either.
• This Gnostic estimate of Christ has undoubtedly had a mighty influence on the later Church development of Christology.
• A Gnostic sect of the 2nd century was known by the name of Cainites.
• The idea that the true Initiates and Faithful become Kings and Priests, is at once Persian, Jewish, Christian, and Gnostic.
• Tertullian tells us that the Valentinians, the most celebrated of all the Gnostic schools, imitated, or rather perverted, the Mysteries of Eleusis.
• Basilides, the Christian Gnostic, taught the seven emanation idea, 553-l.
• Eight stars of the Gnostic ogdoade represent the angles of the cube, 635-l.
• Emanations, theory of the Basilidean or Gnostic, 554.
• Gnostic doctrine, rise and explanation of, 248-256.
• Gnostic Mysteries made known to the heads of the Templars, 817-m.
• Gnostic seals and abraxae adopted by Templars, 235-m.
• Gnostic Simonians had a Priesthood of the Mysteries, 542-m.
• Gnostic Stauros an image of generative power, 771-l.
• Gnostic Valentinians imitated the Mysteries of Eleusis, 542-l.
• Numbers an example of the Gnostic emanation doctrine, 249-u.
• There is abundant evidence, from gems, monuments and fragments, to show that there was a mystery language employed by the Gnostic and other schools.
• We have evidently here a version of the great Sophia-mythus, which plays so important a part in all Gnostic systems.
• In reality there were Gnostic sects scattered over the Hellenistic world BEFORE Christianity as well as after.
• But the whole discourse should be read by those who wish to understand the Gnostic philosophy of the period contemporary with and anterior to the birth of Christianity.
• Priscillian, bishop of Avila, was led into error by his intercourse with an Egyptian gnostic.
• The emanistic theories which played so great a part in Neoplatonic philosophy and Gnostic theology are forms of evolution.

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