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Gnosticism (from Greek gnosis , knowledge) is a term created by modern scholars to describe a diverse, syncretistic religious movement, especially in the first centuries C.E. Gnostics believed in gnosis , the knowledge of God enabled by secret...


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Gnōsis ("knowledge") is a Greek word of Indo-European origin, related to the English know and the Sanskrit jñāña. The term has long been used in comparative religion to indicate a current of antiquity that...
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Gnosticism "Gnosticism" (from the Greek gnosis , "knowledge") designates a broad variety of religious teachings that were rife in the Hellenized Near East of the first centuries CE and purported to offer knowledge of the...
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The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
Was There a Gnostic Religion?
10/01/2006: 765 words, approx. 3 pages
ANTTI MARJANEN (ed.), Was There a Gnostic Religion? (Publications of the Finnish Exegetical Society 87; Helsinki: Finnish Exegetical Society; GOttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005). Pp. viii + 151. Paper euro26. The title of this short collection of essays leaves open the question of...
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Publishers Weekly
Wondering about the Gnostics. (Gnostic literature)
08/15/1994: 1,607 words, approx. 5 pages
The search of this ancient faith for a personal vision of godhead has made it a hot contemporary topic Most people "wouldn't know the difference between Gnosticism and gnocchi," states Jed Lyons, president of National Book Network. Yet Lyons predicts that a spiritually...
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How Can Jesus Be 100 Percent God and 100 Percent Man?
12/31/2007: 653 words, approx. 2 pages
"He did things like his Dad (100 percent God), and He did things like we do (since he's 100 percent man)," says Candice, 10. I'm impressed, Candice! You have succeeded where others have failed.Probably no question in all of philosophy and theology has spawned more...
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The New York Observer
More on the Da Vinci Code's Appeal
5/20/2006: 259 words, approx. 1 pages
All this to say that one commenter, Judy, has responded to my somewhat-snarky take on the Da Vinci Code and explained the popular impact of its ideas. Go read her comment in full. Here are some key bits: lots of christian women respond to the...
 


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