gnosticism

What I call gnosticism rests on the view, unknown to the Old Testament and cogently argued against by Aristotle, that man is a spirit with a body, whereas in my view ” that it is my view is of course absolutely unimportant ” man is a body with distinctive capacities.

Sex in the Head Singer, Peter 1976

This intellectualism, sometimes called gnosticism, claims that knowledge is the source of life, and that the possession of knowledge delivers us from the power of evil.

Herein is Love A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships. Reuel L. Howe 1945

The gnosticism is the belief that we can discount the chronology and still cling to the message of the text, as if the chronology isn't part of that message.

Kata Iwannhn 2008

The gnosticism is the belief that we can discount the chronology and still cling to the message of the text, as if the chronology isn't part of that message.

Kata Iwannhn 2008

The gnosticism is the belief that we can discount the chronology and still cling to the message of the text, as if the chronology isn't part of that message.

Kata Iwannhn 2008

The gnosticism is the belief that we can discount the chronology and still cling to the message of the text, as if the chronology isn't part of that message.

Kata Iwannhn 2008

(against Judaizing tendencies), Colossians (against an apparently gentile heresy which had adopted rituals and philosophies from many sources), I John (against a budding philosophical heresy later known as gnosticism) and even Hebrews.

Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews 1973

Then there is the other side, which is reactionary, hates technical innovation, wants to reserve liturgical forms to a tiny elite, fears freedom, detests the idea of human choice, and advances a kind of gnosticism over doctrine and liturgy - always wants it to remain the private preserve of the elect who appoint each other and operate as a kind of liturgical guild.

Guido the Innovator 2009

Indeed, there are more than a few indications that some of the very same threads that coalesced into "gnosticism" proper existed during the apostolic age.

Heidelblog R. Scott Clark 2008

At the same time, Greek thought had combined with religious feelings from a little further east and produced something then known as gnosticism ... "

The Guardian World News Laura Barton 2010