Gnosticism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GNOSTICISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the belief that freedom derives solely from knowledge
• a prominent heretical movement of the 2nd-century Christian Church, partly of pre-Christian origin. Gnostic doctrine taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity, the demiurge, and that Christ was an emissary of the remote supreme divine being, esoteric knowledge (gnosis) of whom enabled the redemption of the human spirit.
• The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.
• a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person\'s spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the thought and practice especially of various cults of late pre-Christian and early Christian centuries distinguished by the conviction that matter is evil and that emancipation comes through gnosis

Words related to GNOSTICISM

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Words that contain GNOSTICISM

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How to use GNOSTICISM in a sentence

• The early heresies numerous, 429 The systems with which Christianity had to struggle, 430 The leading peculiarities of Gnosticism, ib.
• Gnosticism developed itself in both these directions.
• But Gnosticism, in whatever form it presented itself, was a miserable perversion of the gospel.
• Shortly after the middle of the second century the Church began to be troubled by a heresy in some respects very different from Gnosticism.
• When Gnosticism was spreading so rapidly, and creating so much scandal and confusion, schism upon schism appeared unavoidable.
• Montanism appeared whilst Gnosticism was yet in its full strength, and this gloomy fanaticism created intense agitation.
• Gnosticism was the effort of a reason excessively given to speculation, undisciplined and greatly unrestrained by any sense of reality to possess and transform the Church.
• The Gnostics The first school of thought to create a schism in Christianity was the collection of sects known under the generic name of Gnosticism.
• Matter is therefore right in saying that Gnosticism was not a defection from Christianity, but a combination of systems into which a few Christian elements were introduced.
• This system is distinguished from Gnosticism by the history of redemption appearing as the natural continuation of the history of creation and not simply as its correction.
• On the decay of Gnosticism after the end of the 2nd century, see Renan, Origines, Vol.
• The first fundamental idea, in its all-dominating importance, was suggested to Irenaeus by his opposition to Gnosticism.
• Yet the great majority had one thing in common, as is proved, among other things, by the gradual expulsion of Gnosticism.
• On the contrary, it sees in Gnosticism a series of undertakings, which in a certain way is analogous to the Catholic embodiment of Christianity, in doctrine, morals, and worship.
• It is therefore no paradox to say that Gnosticism, which is just Hellenism, has in Catholicism obtained half a victory.
• To prove the existence of that left wing of Gnosticism is of the greatest interest for the history of dogma, but the details are of no consequence.
• If this makes the Gnostic literature approximate to the profane, that is much more the case with the scientific theological literature which Gnosticism first produced.
• They shew with admirable clearness, the way in which Gnosticism originated.
• Scientific, theological literature has undoubtedly its origin in Gnosticism.
• Upon the whole we may see here how foolish it is to seek to dispose of Gnosticism with the phrase lawless fancies.
• The aversion to barbarism also co-operated here, in so far as Gnosticism delighted in mysterious words borrowed from the Semites.
• The denial by Gnosticism of free will, and therewith of moral responsibility, called forth very decided contradiction.
• It is admitted that the cradle of Gnosticism is probably to be looked for in Syria, and even in Palestine.
• Like the Satan of Gnosticism, he was confounded with Matter.
• Deity, among the fundamental teachings of Gnosticism were emanations from, 248-l.
• Gnosticism imperfectly revealed the disfigured occult science of the Magi, 839-m.
• Manes derived his doctrine from Zoroasterism, Christianity, Gnosticism, 565-m.
• It was Gnosticism come again in a very different age to men in an opposite phase of culture, but with its logic unchanged.

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