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INFINITY NOW: The Prosperity Gospel: God In a Box
In Platonism and Gnosticism the body is bad and the spirit is good. The material is bad and the spiritual is good. “Revelation Knowledge,” the Prosperity Gospel's first principle, is decidedly more pagan and Gnostic than Christian. ...
Obama Gnosticism: Creating Heaven on Earth «Remnant Culture
Robert Cheeks recently wrote a piece on the prevalence of Gnosticism in current American politics. His basic argument is that our society has recently been energized and engaged by utopian heaven-on-earth fantasies, particularly those ...
Karma in Gnosticism?
I know there is reincarnation in Gnosticism and some Gnostic texts but is there anything equivalent to Karma in Gnostic texts? I mean how do Gnostics explain that for instance: Why some people were born healthy while others handicapped? ...
Don't think about Ancient And Gnosticism Traditions
Ancient Gnosticism Traditions And Written by Gnosticism expert Birger A. Pearson (Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, University of California Santa Barbara), Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature is an overview of all … ...
Resurrection or Disembodiment? Gnosticism in Evangelical Theology
Someone left an interesting comment on my post about Gnosticism, saying "I so often feel like an outsider with my hope not resting in the so-called immortality of the soul, but rather the resurrection from the grave. ...
His Dark Materials, Blake, and Gnosticism: William Blake's Deep ...
The worlds created by Philip Pullman owe a great debt of inspiration to the works of William Blake; specifically, his alliance to The Gnostic Myth.
Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio: Teaser for 'Postmodern Gnosticism ...
We've delved into Mary M. as the Gnostic Master, the Bride of the Heavenly Logos and the Lower Avatar of Sophia. We've contrasted her position in Orthodoxy versus Gnosticism. But now we find some new amazing truths about Mary Magdalene ...
Jung and Gnosticism
In truth, Jung's involvement with Gnosticism and Mysticism was very scientifically appropriate. Gnosticism and Mysticism actually takes a scientific approach to discovering truth. The difference between Gnostic studies and the more ...
Gnosticism in America
They say we should know history because if you don't know history, history will repeat itself. Unfortunately that is truer than you might think. One thing that has really caught my attention lately is the false doctrine that has become ...
Tackling the charge of Gnosticism - Daily Episcopalian
While leaving it to others to draw their own conclusions about whether the charges of Gnosticism should stick, I want to revisit this episode a bit more deeply, because in our prayer life, the daily office lectionary has been moving ...
A Complete Introduction to Gnosticism Part 3 8/27/2010 ...
Father Bryan and Bishop Mani continue their discussion from last month about the limitations of the human condition. Aug 27 2010.
The Valentinian School of the Universal Church of Autogenes: A ...
Our goal is to reconcile Sethian classical Gnostic theology with orthodox Christian practices and understandings. Our praxis carries with it a strong eastern liturgical focus while maintaining a freedom of spirituality that is true to ...
Some brief insights into Gnosticism
Below we have two clips from a short essay by Bertonneau on classical Gnosticism. What makes this particularly interesting is that we find obvious parallels between it and today's Left, as Voegelin would point out in a different way. ...
Benny Hinn, ”jag är en ande” och gnosticism | Anders Gerdmar
Det har med rätta varit diskussion om vissa uttalanden av Benny Hinn på Livets Ord och eftersom det kommit en del kommentarer svarar jag på dessa i ett.
A Complete Introduction to Gnosticism Part 1 - Jul 30,2010
Gilmore, presiding Bishop of the Universal Church of Autogenes, to launch this new monthly series on the subject of Gnosticism in practice. Tonight, they will begin the series with an introduction to the Church along with a discussion ...
Hypotyposeis » Neoplatonism and Gnosticism – Part Six
Secondly, a late date for the Platonic Sethian texts would mean that full-blown Neoplatonic ideas are not present in Christianity (Orthodox or Gnostic) before the very late 3rd century. The Platonic Sethian texts would be early evidence ...
Master of Gnosticism Course - Universal Life Church by Rev. Alexander
When Jesus came of age within the Essenes he purified the structure of the Mystery traditions and re-instated the original Gnostic faith. Hence, the Gnosticism of Jesus is not superior to other Gnostic traditions, but is a refinement or ...
Terra Nova: The Gnostic Revolution
Gnostics are people who Know. Gnosticism is a school, or a philosophy, or a frame, or what have you, grounded on the notion that there are things to be Known out there that are only poorly reflected in the "real" world. ...
The Return of Gnosticism
Although Gnosticism is primarily considered a second century heresy, a precursor to it known as Docetism was present in the time of the Apostles. John addresses this heresy in 1 John 4:1–6. Like Cher and her annual “farewell tour,” this ...
GNOSTICISM: Understanding the Liberal Mind
Gnosticism is not a term we usually hear today, and yet we live in the age of the Gnostic. Gnosticism permeates every aspect of modern life. I tell my kids that it's even in our ice cream. Many people associate this term with early ...
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Now, Gnosticism is “the dichotomy between the spiritual realm, considered sacred, and the physical realm, considered profane. It has many historical and contemporary variations,” but the definition I'm operating with is more or less the ...
The Concept of “Reverse Gnosticism”
In the course of teaching on Gnosticism in several different classes, I once had the idea that Scientology was a kind of “reverse Gnosticism” — you have the secret knowledge, etc., but instead of identifying the foreign particles (in ...
The Zennist: Buddhism and gnosticism
Both Buddhism and gnosticism (gnosticism as a typological category) see our phenomenal world as a deception (maya) insofar as it is not what it appears to be. Worse still, at bottom, it only gives suffering to its subjects who cling...
Postmodern Gnosticism & Gnosis as the Last Hope to Bridge Faith ...
Now, more than ever, the message of the Classic Gnostics can help heal a wounded, infirm society. From the Gnosis transmitted by the Serpent in The Garden, to the Gnostic saviors found in Comic Books, we go deep into the dangerous heart ...
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The most radical tenet of Gnosticism is that the world is a stupendous mistake, created by a foolish or vicious creator-god. This creator or Demiurge is a god of a very low grade on the celestial hierarchy, himself the result of an ...
Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism
The success of books such as Elaine Pagels's Gnostic Gospels and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code proves beyond a doubt that there is a tremendous thirst today for finding the hidden truths of Christianity – truths that may have…
Alexander Bard: Zoroastrianism vs Gnosticism
Gnosticism itself simply means 'good at knowing', one could almost say that it is the Greek word for 'Good Mind/Thoughts'. It is post classical Semitic Christian Gnosticism that adopted much of the dualistic 'spirit against matter' ...
Ekman om Hinns förkunnelse: Ren och skär gnosticism « Dagen.se
Ulf Ekman kritiserar i sin blogg Benny Hinn för gnosticism och för att ge en falsk bild av vem Jesus verkligen är. Hinn medverkade på Europakonferensen i Uppsala.
On Theoretical Overstretch and Oligarchic Gnosticism
Each is a form of Gnosticism. The outcomes all resemble the Oligarchic Socialism of Nineteen Eighty-Four. The appeal of Islam may partly rest on its' granting a similar exalted role to the qadis or scholars of the sacred texts. ...
GNOSTICISM: A Perennial Philosophy
An excellent lecture by Peter Jones: A Gnostic Gospel. As usual, Peter provides us an informed look at Gnosticism and its revival in our time. A few notes from this lecture: 1) Gnosticism: Dualism on the back of Monism ...
Gnosticism?
by Birrell Walsh. Question by JP: Gnosticism? What does the term mean? How did Gnosticism affect the Christian understanding of the nature of God and Jesus? Best answer: Answer by EazyE it means “hidden knowledge”, it was a believed ...
The inscrutableness of Gnosticism: part 1 and 2
John Lash, a Gnostic expert helps us understand just how enigmatic and useless they really are. The inscrutableness of Gnosticism: part 2 John Lash, author of "Not in his image" talking about.
Modern Gnosticism's disregard for reality
Bertonneau adduces the current American economic crisis as an example of modern Gnosticism, where “the magical spending of money that does not exist [snip], stubbornly fails to result in the rescue of an economy whose collapse stems, ...
The Circle of the Silver Moon: The Druze
The Druze faith began as a movement in Ismailism that was mainly influenced by Greek philosophy and gnosticism and opposed certain religious and philosophical ideologies that were present during that epoch. ...
Gnosticism from a Non-Voegelinian Perspective, Part II | The ...
Part I of this series posed the linked questions whether Eric Voegelin's characterization of Gnosticism in his various books on the topic was valid – and whether, as Voegelin asserted, modernity, in the form of the liberal and ...
Pious Fabrications: Calvinism, Gnosticism, Orthodoxy & Church ...
I would like to see you finally address the actual point that I've made about the links between Gnosticism and Calvinism, especially in regards to their doctrines of Predestination and its logical consequences. The only responses you've ...
Holograms, Gnosticism, Celebrity, and Mission « Heidelblog
Holograms, Gnosticism, Celebrity, and Mission. Posted on March 6, 2010 by R. Scott Clark. Two jarring facts came to my attention in recent days. The first of these is that there is a huge surplus of preachers relative to pulpits in some ...
Gnosticism : Yet ANOTHER Road to HELL !
Anyway , to continue , I can now add yet ANOTHER doctrine he seems to be embracing - and that is Gnosticism . In his latest blog ramblings he cites the works of "religious scholar" Elaine Pagels, and her Gnostic Gospels. ...
Hypostasis of the Archons- ExChristian.Net - Articles
While the historical and theological details are far too complex for proper explication here, the tide of history can be said to have turned against Gnosticism in the middle of the second century. No Gnostic after Valentinus would ever ...
Technology and the Dangers of Gnosticism | revelife
Technology and the Dangers of Gnosticism. Most of us here online are probably "addicted." Inboxes go 'ping,' status updates and pulses bombard us constantly. The phone rings and a text comes in a second later. ...
Gnosticism in Antiquity: book presentation in a historical environment
The specialist of gnosticism, hermetism and early Christianity, Roelof van den Broek, presented his latest book, Gnosis in de Oudheid: Nag Hammadi in Context in the magnificent Huis met de Hoofden (“house with the heads”) in Amsterdam. ...
Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions And Literature
Directly addressing the nettling questions of origins and definition, Pearson situates the advent of Gnosticism within the Greco-Roman religious world and critically appraise. Rating: (out of 2 reviews). List Price: $ 25.00 ...
A rare example of “magic” and Gnosticism in Django
Gnosticism, on the other hand, is pretty obvious when it rears itself: If you MUST use jQuery or you MUST name every variable drupal.something, you know that you are not working with an agnostic framework. ...
Gnosticism, Marriage, Singleness, Matchmaking and Martin Luther
I have been thinking a lot about Gnosticism recently because of an article I have been asked to write on the subject for Christianity & Society and this has forced me to revisit my earlier thoughts on the relationship between Gnosticism ...
What's Wrong with Gnosticism?
Recently we Christians have been bombarded with a slew of Gnostic readings and studies which gnaw at the heels of Christianity. Since the discovery of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas at Nag Hammadi in Egypt in 1945, scholars have had a ...
Carl Jung, Neo-gnosticism, and the MBTI « Edhird's Blog
[4] One of the key questions for the ARM Board to settle is whether the MBTI is an integral part of Jungian neo-gnosticism, or alternately, that it may be a detachable benevolent portion of Jung's philosophy in an otherwise suspect ...
“Gnosticism : It's History & Influence” B Walker; HC/DJ
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Wake Up! Gnosticism and Buddhism in The Matrix by Frances Flannery ...
[6] In the Gnostic myth, the supreme god is completely perfect and therefore alien and mysterious, "ineffable," "unnamable," "immeasurable light which is pure, holy and immaculate" (Apocryphon of John). In addition to this god there are ...
On the built-in duplicity of liberalism
In Jonas's analysis, the fundamental gesture of the Gnostic mentality is resentment seeking reversal. I refer readers to my series of articles on Gnosticism from earlier this year at The Brussels Journal, especially Part III, ...
Gnosticism | Apologetics Index
Gnosticism, an early heresy faced by the Christian church.
Ancient Gnosticism – Traditions And Literature
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Postmodern Christianity as Reverse Gnosticism
Consider,. Gnosticism holds a hyper-platonic worldview that says all flesh is bad. Salvation for them involves escaping mortal bodies. Salvation is gained through knowing the correct secret knowledge. Dualistic worldview that undermines ...
Politics Books: Modernity Without Restrain: The Political ...
Published together for the first time in one volume are Eric Voegelin'sPolitical Religions,The New Science of Politics, andScience, Politics, and Gnosticism.Political Religionswas first published in 1938 in Vienna, the year of ...
Worldviews at anomalogue blog
Three of these recurring worldviews are of particular interest: Fundamentalism, gnosticism, and philistinism. Fundamentalists interpret symbols strictly literally, which means in strictly objective terms, using violent magical stop-gap ...
Catholics and Professional Football « The American Catholic
Cleveland Browns: Having a team named the Browns while having an orange helmet is something that makes no sense outside of Browns fans, and therefore is obviously a display of Gnosticism. Presumably this embrace of Gnosticism will lead ...
Unholy Shadows: Gnosticism
Gnosticism is a term derived from the Greek “gnosis” and translates “knowledge.” It generally applied collectively to the majority of those second century movements which called themselves Christian or borrowed heavily from Christian ...
Jordan on Gnosticism versus History
“Throughout history, the Christian Church has had to guard against the heresy of gnosticism. Gnosticism is not an ordinary heresy, because it does not manifest itself as a set of defined beliefs. Rather, gnosticism is a tendency: the ...
Essay for the Master of Gnosticism Course by Joseph H Kovacic
Having dabbled in the study of Gnosticism for several years, a formal examination of the subject seemed in order. The course, “Master of Gnosticism,” offered at Universal Life Seminary appeared to be a means of satisfying that goal. ...
W(h)ither 'Gnosticism'? « The Palm Tree Garden
Current terminological usage makes being Gnostic, or more properly, “a Gnostic” an indication of uncertainty of one's beliefs. In fact, you likely are not “a Gnostic”, nor would you want to be one. Not now. Not today. Here's why. ...
Chilton on Gnosticism
"Neo-Gnosticism [is] a modern revival greatly encouraged by the discovery at Nag Hammadi. In co-opting these ancient sources, the neo-Gnostics are unlike their ancient counterparts. They want to embrace the earth, while Gnostics often ...
SNIPPITS and SNAPPITS: Gnosticism - Illuminism - The Satanic ...
World Terrorism has the most sinister agenda behind it: Gnosticism - Illuminism - The Satanic religion of the New World Order centered in the Vatican and the base of Terrorism they Perpetrate on the World, is for the sole purpose of ...
Occultism and Gnosticism Fill in the Void in the Czech Republic
Thanks to the deceits of Masonic associations fueling Czech Nationalism and the destructive presence of an impending Soviet menace, the Catholic Church has been sorely beaten in this once mostly Catholic nation. ...
What Is Gnosticism? | Beyond Within
This is an intro to Gnosticism, to kick off a new category of posts inspired by Gnostic texts.
Gnosticism from a Non-Voegelinian Perspective, Part I | The ...
The texts of Plotinus and Augustine tell us that Gnosticism remained peculiarly and tenaciously implicated in the fabric of Late Antique society, against whose existing institutions and convictions the devotees of Gnosis (“Secret ...
Gnosticism Redivivus
Gnostic heresies abandoning the accepted doctrine of the incarnation assailed the ancient church with their abjuration of the goodness of the material creation, approving, alternatively, an abstracted mysticism accentuating the mind and ...
Science, Self-Deification, and Gnosticism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Birthmark provides a springboard for reflecting on the problems of scientism, especially the temptation to self-deification and, what Eric Voegelin terms, modern Gnosticism.
Science Politics and Gnosticism
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Gnosticism!
This post is about gnosticism, so if ye' don't want to hear about it just skip over this post. ^_^ I'm not preaching to anyone, just making an attempt to explain what I believe. I'm trying to avoid making a huge post, so this'll just be ...
Modern Gnosticism's Relationship With the World
Ancient "Gnostic" sects looked at the world in various ways. Some saw it as garbage. Others as almost like a prison. The Gospel of Thomas that says, "he who has found the world, has found a corpse," also says "lift a stone I am there, ...
Gnosticism from a Non-Voegelinian Perspective, Part III ...
Voegelin did not evoke the topic of Gnosticism in a vacuum. The scholarship of Gnosis goes back to various students of G.W.F. Hegel, particularly to Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860), whose pioneering study, Die Christliche Gnosis ...
Gnosticism: Gnot What People Think « A Letter To The Times
Gnosticism was the solution some people came up with when they could not reconcile the perfection and goodness of God, which they had accepted, with the imperfection and pain of the material world, which they could not deny. ...
Gnosticism from a Non-Voegelinian Perspective, Part IV (Revisiting ...
Eric Voegelin's critique of modernity claims that liberalism, the creed of the Enlightenment, is “Gnostic.” Voegelin (1901-1985) drew the term “Gnosticism” from a strain of Late Antique religiosity. The term “Gnostic” refers to that ...
Mary Magdalene in Gnosticism: How Early Pagan Converts Regarded ...
To the Gnostics, the Magdalene was a revered and sacred figure who had a special relationship with Christ, readily absorbing his esoteric teachings.
Euangelion: Jewish Origins of Gnosticism
I think you could look at John's gospel as having an anti-gnostic polemic. I think gnosticism roots go back as far as Plato. The use of the demiurge took on anti-Jewish tones i.e. Israel/Torah/the G-d of Abraham, the ...
Gnosticism -Part 1
Most people in modern times do not know or understand what Gnosticism is, or what it means to be a Gnostic. People are extremely familiar with the term AGNOSTIC however, they are not the same thing, or even similar, as most people ...
No More Gnosticism
He makes a comparison between Gnosticism and the spirit of every age to try to wed Christianity to the prevailing popular enlightened ideas of the culture in an effort to make it more appealing. I post this as a warning to all of us to ...
Gnosticism was a minor religion, overshadowed by the Eleusinian ...
Question by Greek, Coptic, & Bible Forensic: Gnosticism was a minor religion, overshadowed by the Eleusinian Cult. So why do gnostics get more press today? And why ar the Eleusinian Orgia rarely mentioned today? ...
Eric Voegelin And Gnosticism
The View From 1776: Professor Voegelin was a pioneer in identifying secular religions such as socialism with the pattern of gnosticism experienced in ancient times. In Part IV of his disquisition on Eric Voegelin's philosophy of history ...
Culture Following » Blog Archive » Interview with Andrew Phillip Smith
We interviewed Andrew Phillip Smith, author of numerous books, editor of The Gnostic, and founder of small publishing house Bardic Press. We asked him about his writing, his focus on Gnosticism, and what he's working on next. ...
Michael Heiser – Gnosticism (part 5) – “Neither Lord nor Christ ...
“Neither Lord nor Christ?” The Belief in Jesus as God before The Council of Nicea and the Exalted Christ of Gnosticism”. A refutation of two ideas put forth in The DaVinci Code: That Constantine invented the idea that Jesus was God at ...
Priestettes, VOT"F", Resurrection, Reincarnation, and Gnosticism ...
Here we return to the question of Gnosticism, which denied that Christ was "true man" (and often, that He was "true God"). Suppose we take the last remaining way "out" for VOT"F"C's and say that while all of these passages are true as ...
Masonic Magazine » Blog Archive » Gnosticism in the Third Degree
Many Masonic authors mention the influence that Gnosticism had on the gradual development of the Speculative Freemasonry that perpetuates today. In their noble efforts to theorize the genealogy of the Fraternity of Free and Accepted ...
Gnosticism: There is Nothing New Under the Sun
The book seeks to dismantle the intricate heretical teachings of the Greek gnostics. [You can find the book for free audio download here.] While their teaching is very involved, something very simple struck me about the method [...]
The Positive Challenge of Gnosticism: Ancient and Modern
I've always had an extreme dislike of the way modern religious scholars have treated Gnostic sources as being on equal footing to patristic sources as a means of gauging early Christian faith. Many Gnostic writings are pure, ...
Gnosticism
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The Gnosticism of the 1832-33 Revelations
Joseph Smith's “exaltation revelations” of 1832 and 1833 resonate strongly with certain ancient ideas that can be loosely described as “gnostic” (although of course this is a term for which there is no consensus definition). ...
k-punk: Hobbesian Gnosticism
March 17, 2010. Hobbesian Gnosticism. Me on the Hobbesian Gnosticism of The Road in Film Quarterly... Posted by mark at March 17, 2010 09:47 PM | TrackBack.
Discovery, Destruction and Exposure of the Nag Hammadi Scrolls
The Nag Hammadi scrolls have a wealth of information to modern theologians. But their discovery was riddled with drama, destruction, murder, illegal trades.
Letting Go of Gnosticism: A Personal Reflection
The term “Gnosticism” was coined in the Seventeenth Century, picked up by scholars in the centuries following who had access to perhaps 20% of the material now best represented by the Nag Hammadi collection of codices (“Nag Hammadi ...
Gnosticism, Facts & Fantasies
Most of the written history of Gnostics and the various groups that practices Gnosticism come from those who opposed them. As a result, that written history tends to be largely negative and misleading. Let's clear up a few of these ...
Summer Hedonism
In other words, Gnosticism was a whole lot like Greco-Roman voodoo. It was a Gnostic sect called Manichaeism that Augustine fell into in his youth. Gnostic notions would re-emerge in the Middle Ages in southern France with the ...
Heresies: Gnosticism – A Divided World
They key here is that Gnostics believe that the physical world and all it contains is evil, or at least of far inferior quality. Whether it is the rocks, trees, human inventions, the human brain, or physical bodies, these are all of ...
A Complete Introduction to Gnosticism Part 2 - Jul 30,2010
Today, Fr. Bryan speaks with Bishop Mani about the limitations of the human condition. How do these natural restrictions affect our spiritual development and is there a way to transcend such obstacles?
Slaves to Government: Constitutional Gnosticism Will Destroy a ...
You cannot sustain a free republic when the citizens who are expected to comply with the law have no understanding of what the law is or how their.