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Ads by Google      Technorati Tag: Gnosticism Gnosticism and Jesus The Mystic Christ book reveals the path of gnosticism as taught by Jesus. Gnosticism, which figures prominently in The Da Vinci Code, has roots... This is an interesting blog entry about the roots of gnosticism, by waterbug. http://technorati.com/tag/Gnosticism   (500 words)      "Pre-Christian Gnosticism, the New Testament and Nag Hammadi in recent debate" by Edwin M. Yamauchi In the last two decades the existence of a non-Christian Gnosticism has been amply demonstrated, but the existence of a pre-Christian Gnosticism in the first century or before, that is, a fully developed Gnostic system early enough to have influenced the New Testament writers, remains in doubt. Gnosticism with a fully articulated theology, cosmology, anthropology, and soteriology cannot be discerned clearly until into the Christian era. New Testament exegesis on the basis of pre-Christian Gnosticism http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/article_gnosticism_yamauchi.html   (5610 words)      Gnosticism - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Gnosticism "was a product which did not spring up spontaneously in the minds of the mechanics and slaves and women and children, whom most, like Celsus, suppose to have formed the bulk of the Christian communities, but could only have taken its rise in minds of a more cultured and speculative cast. Gnosticism has combined the two, the Greek opposition between spirit and matter, and the sharp Zoroastrian dualism, which, where the Greek mind conceived of a higher and a lower world, saw instead two hostile worlds standing in contrast to each other like light and darkness. Gnosticism in its ancient form has passed away, but it is interesting to observe how its spirit reappears from time to time in modern days. http://www.searchgodsword.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T3837   (5610 words)      The Sethians The Rediscovery of Gnosticism: Proceedings of the International Conferenceon Gnosticism at Yale, New Haven, Connecticut, March 28-31, 1978. John D. Turner, "The Figure of Hecate and Dynamic Emanationism in The Chaldean Oracles, Sethian Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism," Second Century 7.4 (1989/90): 221-232. John D. Turner, "Sethian Gnosticism: A Literary History," Charles W. Hedrick and Robert Hodgson, eds. http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/sethians.html   (5610 words)      University of Helsinki: Department of Biblical Studies - Gnosticism and Early Christian Culture Sethian Gnosticism derives its name from Seth, the third son of Adam, who was considered to be the mediator of divine knowledge to mankind. In the latest research, Sethian Gnosticism is beginning to be considered as one of the earliest forms of gnostic thought, indeed as a certain kind of "classical Gnosticism", from which later forms of Gnosticism such as Valentinianism gradually developed. Gnosticism is also referred to in a looser sense as the stress on the spiritual and seeking for truth within. http://www.helsinki.fi/teol/hyel/gnosti/english/gnosticism.html   (5610 words)      Gnosticism Pheme Perkins, The Gnostic Dialogue: The Early Church and the Crsis of Gnosticism. R.P. Casey, "Gnosis, Gnosticism and the New Testament," W.D. Davies and D. Daube, eds., The Background of the New Testament and Its Eschatology. Birger A. Pearson, "Early Christianity and Gnosticism in the History of Religions," Studia Theologica 55.1 (2001): 81-106. http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/gnosticism.html   (5610 words)      The Nag Hammadi Library after Fifty Years She has published several articles in the study of Gnosticism and Nag Hammadi and is currently completing a book on the uses of gender imagery in the Nag Hammadi texts. She is past Chair and current member of the Steering Committee of the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Section of the Society of Biblical Literature. He is currently Chair of the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Section of the Society of Biblical Literature. http://www.brill.nl/product.asp?id=2823   (270 words)      The Gnostic Christ: Gnosticism vs. Christianity See Edwin M. Yamauchi, “Jewish Gnosticism?” in Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic Religions, ed. See Edwin M. Yamauchi, Pre-Christian Gnosticism, 2d ed. Quispel, “From Its Origins,” 567 f.; see also Yamauchi, “Jewish Gnosticism?” 494; and Wilson, The Gnostic Problem (London: A. Mowbray and Co., 1958), 221, 226. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/6111/pneumatikos/gnostic.htm   (2580 words)      CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gnosticism As Christianity grew within and without the Roman Empire, Gnosticism spread as a fungus at its root, and claimed to be the only true form of Christianity, unfit, indeed, for the vulgar crowd, but set apart for the gifted and the elect. Christianity survived, and not Gnosticism, because the former was the fittest -- immeasurably, nay infinitely, so. Whereas formerly Gnosticism was considered mostly a corruption of Christianity, it now seems clear that the first traces of Gnostic systems can be discerned some centuries before the Christian Era. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06592a.htm   (2580 words)      Nag Hammadi Library The discovery and translation of the Nag Hammadi library, completed in the 1970's, has provided impetus to a major re-evaluation of early Christian history and the nature of Gnosticism. This immensely important discovery includes a large number of primary Gnostic scriptures -- texts once thought to have been entirely destroyed during the early Christian struggle to define "orthodoxy" -- scriptures such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Truth. Several of the major texts in the Nag Hammadi collection have more than one English translation; where more than one translation is made available, we have listed the translators' names in parenthesis below the name of the text. http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html   (2580 words)      Gnostic websites Gnosticism: The Gnostic Gospels of Thomas and Eve. The seven chapters of this workbook are The Seven Spiritual Principles of Gnosticism and within each chapter are specific methods for applying these spiritual principles. Gnostic Society Library: Sources on Gnosticism and Gnosis http://www.sullivan-county.com/nf0/nov_2000/gnostic_sites.htm   (2580 words)      Bibliography on Seth Schenke, H.-M. "The Phenomenon and Significance of Gnostic Sethianism." In The Rediscovery of Gnosticism: Proceedings of the International Conference on Gnosticism. Williams, Michael A. "Stalking Those Elusive Sethians." In The Rediscovery of Gnosticism: Proceddings of the International Conference on Gnosticism. Francis, F. "The Gnostics: The Undominated Race." NT 21 (1979): 271-288. http://faculty.washington.edu/wheelerb/bibliography_seth.html   (2580 words)      Search The Llewellyn Encyclopedia: gnostic The two major branches of Gnosticism were Sethian or Jewish Gnosticism, and Valentinian or Christian Gnosticism. Gnosticism : A word derived from the Greek gnostikos, meaning one who has acquired gnosis or "knowledge" (literally, "one who knows"). Any of several Gnostic sects that flourished in the Mediterranean world during the time of Christ, particularly during the second and third centuries C.E. and for many centuries after. http://www.llewellynencyclopedia.com/term/gnostic   (2580 words)      Review of Paul and Hellenism by Hyam Maccoby, SCM 1991 Given that Paul did have his background in Gnosticism and the mystery religions this in itself is not a crime, we may admire Paul for being able to combine three religions so fundamentally different: Judaism, mystery religions and Gnosticism. Historically Gnosticism has identified the God of the Jews as the creator of the world, and hence the source of evil. He defines Gnosticism as a religion which sees the world as fundamentally evil, and salvation as a mystical escape to the higher realms beyond this world. http://www.btinternet.com/~fountain/theology/paul.html   (2580 words)      DANGEROUS GNOSTICISM ON THE RISE The author says that gnosticism is the ideological soil that "Harry Potter, the Star Wars series, The Matrix, Masonry, New Age and the Raelian cult, which claims to have cloned the first baby", all have in common. Aguilar writes that "Gnosticism may be, at the beginning of the third millennium, the most dangerous enemy to our Christian faith". For those who treasure life and family, gnosticism must be seen as a serious danger. http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/apr/03041407.html   (2580 words)      CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gnosticism Gnosticism died not by chance, but because it lacked vital power within itself; and no amount of theosophistic literature, flooding English and German markets, can give life to that which perished from intrinsic and essential defects. Gnosticism deserves attention as showing what mention dispositions Christianity found in existence, what obstacles it had to overcome to maintain its own life; but "means of mental progress it never was". Gnosticism came early into contact with Judaism, and it betrays a knowledge of the Old Testament, if only to reject it or borrow a few names from it. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06592a.htm   (2580 words)      Religious Movements Homepage: Gnosticism However, in Non-Christian Gnosticism it could be Seth (from the Bible), Zostrianos (a form of the prophet from the Persian religion Zoroastrianism), or a mythological entity (Gnosticism). This was a period in which Gnosticism came to focus on Gnosis itself, as a goal for Gnostics to reach (Edwards). One sign that there was still interest in Gnosticism between these periods was the fact that William Blake, the poet and artist, was a known Gnostic during the late 1700's and early 1800's. http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/gnosticism.html   (2169 words)      Gnosticism Gnosticism was a Middle Eastern religious and philosophical orientation that grew strong in the 1st century CE, exercising strong influence on Judaism and Christianity and at times representing a strong and competing theology. Gnosticism is furthermore recognized for its dualism, which is the theory that everything is to be understood within the tension existing between two powers or qualities; light, the good or responsible; and darkness, the evil or the irresponsible. Central figures, religions and writings of Gnosticism include Simon Magus, mentioned in the New Testament; elements in the gospel of John in the New Testament; the extinct world religion, Manichaeism; the still existing religions of the Mandeans and the Isma'ilis; and 2nd century teachers like Basilides and Valentinus. http://i-cias.com/e.o/gnostici.htm   (293 words)      Ecclesia Gnostica in Nova Albion: Gnosticism 101 While neo-valentinian gnosticism seems to be the choice for many today, this may only be the case because it is the easiest form to reconcile with their former Roman Catholic beliefs and its rites. Gnosticism's adherents were first ostracized, then persecuted, then slaughtered. We are Christian gnostics and are interested in spreading gnosticism in the continent. http://egina.blogspot.com/2004/12/gnosticism-101.html   (1709 words)      What Is a Gnostic? Gnosticism, Panton wrote, had surfaced in the twentieth century in the forms of Theosophy, Christian Science, some forms of spiritualism, and in what was called the "New Theology," which had been introduced primarily by German writers on religion. Divisive categorizations that separate "false Gnostics" from "authentic Gnostics," especially on the basis of orthodoxies which were never relevant to either Gnosticism or the Gnostics, may have to be discarded in the light of such definitions. To say that Gnosticism is "nothing but" psychology would have horrified Jung, for he opposed the concept of "nothing but." What made Jung's view radically different from those of his predecessors was simply this: he believed that Gnostic teachings and myths originated in the personal psychospiritual experience of the Gnostic sages. http://www.gnosis.org/whatisgnostic.htm   (3021 words)      DANGEROUS GNOSTICISM ON THE RISE The author says that gnosticism is the ideological soil that "Harry Potter, the Star Wars series, The Matrix, Masonry, New Age and the Raelian cult, which claims to have cloned the first baby", all have in common. Aguilar writes that "Gnosticism may be, at the beginning of the third millennium, the most dangerous enemy to our Christian faith". For those who treasure life and family, gnosticism must be seen as a serious danger. http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/apr/03041407.html   (330 words)      Gnosticism - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Gnosticism is peculiarly the heresy of the 2nd century, and in itself a proof of the extent to which a knowledge of the Christian faith had, at that early period, penetrated in literary and philosophical circles. The germ of Gnosticism in the Christian church made its appearance in the apostolic age, and is referred to by Paul in several of his epistles, notably in that to the Colossians and in the Pastoral Epistles. Gnosticism "was a product which did not spring up spontaneously in the minds of the mechanics and slaves and women and children, whom most, like Celsus, suppose to have formed the bulk of the Christian communities, but could only have taken its rise in minds of a more cultured and speculative cast. http://www.searchgodsword.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T3837   (330 words)      Elaine Pagels Pagels doesn't consider the role of the Eurcharist in the religion because, I suspect, it is simply off the radar, while the political explanation for the failure of Gnosticism prevented the question from arising at all. But with Pagels, who likes Thomas better than John and Gnosticism more than Nicaea, the question then is why the religious appeal of the two sides is different, why she clearly wants to get "beyond belief" and devotes a career to, in effect, reviving Gnostic Christianity. Another agreeable aspect to Gnosticism, to which Pagels devotes an entire chapter in The Gnostic Gospels ("God the Father/God the Mother"), is the expanded role of the feminine in the theology and of women in the Church. http://www.friesian.com/pagels.htm   (7168 words)      "Pre-Christian Gnosticism, the New Testament and Nag Hammadi in recent debate" by Edwin M. Yamauchi Impressed by the great number of 'Jewish' elements such as the use of the Old Testament and midrashic interpretations in the Nag Hammadi texts a number of scholars are now maintaining the thesis of a pre-Christian 'Jewish' Gnosticism, that is, a Gnosticism which somehow developed from within Judaism itself. Pearson, the scholar who has been most effective in ferreting out traces of Jewish traditions in the Nag Hammadi texts, is convinced that Friedländer was correct in postulating 'that Gnosticism is a pre-Christian phenomenon which developed on Jewish soil'. Nevertheless there seems to be no lack of scholars who, undeterred by the lack of pre-Christian Gnostic documents, proceed to interpret the New Testament against a backdrop of a developed or developing Gnosticism. http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/article_gnosticism_yamauchi.html   (5610 words)      Religious Movements Homepage: Gnosticism This century was also a period when Pagan, Jewish and Christian forms of Gnosticism had the most influence on the doctrine and structure of the Christian Church, even though critics treated it a Christian heresy (Crim: 277). Valentinus incorporated the pleroma, or heavenly world, into Gnosticism. What is Gnosticism: As noted, Gnosticism has been defined as a mystical religion (Ellwood and Partin: 96). http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/gnosticism.html   (2169 words)      HP Website In addition to examining the development of Gnosticism, this book addresses issues of New Testament development and the history of Judaism, Christianity, and Gnosticism as they interact in the late first and early second centuries. No Longer Jews reviews the theories about Gnosticism and its sources and details Smith’s hypothesis, offering an excellent introductory text on Gnosticism. His book will be touted as a worthy contribution to Matthean studies.” http://www.hendrickson.com/cgi-bin/pub/hp_search?category=all&main=1   (2169 words)      University of Helsinki: Department of Biblical Studies - Gnosticism and Early Christian Culture Sethian Gnosticism derives its name from Seth, the third son of Adam, who was considered to be the mediator of divine knowledge to mankind. In the latest research, Sethian Gnosticism is beginning to be considered as one of the earliest forms of gnostic thought, indeed as a certain kind of "classical Gnosticism", from which later forms of Gnosticism such as Valentinianism gradually developed. In the Sethian writings the creator god is known by the Semitic name Yaldabaoth, but he is also referred to as "the fool" and "the blind god". http://www.helsinki.fi/teol/hyel/gnosti/english/gnosticism.html   (1790 words)      Ouroboros: The Gnostic Ring This Ring is mostly dedicated to Christian Gnosticism, although non-Christian manifestations of Gnosticism such as Kaballah, Kundalini Yoga and the Mandaean religion are represented also. The French Gnostic Tradition: Gnosticism, Esoteric Initiatic Orders and the Gnostic Church - Links to those in direct succession from the 19th and 20th century Eglise Gnostique of Jules DOINEL, Jean BRICAUD, Constant CHEVILLON, René CHAMBELLANT and Robert AMBELAIN. Eye-popping graphics and side-splitting essays about gnosticism & the Nag Hammadi scriptures! http://f.webring.com/hub?ring=gnosis   (2392 words)      Hermeticism - OccultForums.com Hermeticism could be earlier or simultaneous with Setian Gnosticism, but is definately earlier than Christian (Valentinian) Gnosticism. Hermeticism is called "Pagan Gnosticism" in the sticky. I would be very interested to hear people's opinions on what are the main differences between Hermeticism and Gnosticism, and if there are indeed reasons to consider them different doctrines (other than cultural adoptation)? http://www.occultforums.com/showthread.php?t=6185   (1769 words)      Gnosticism In fact Jonas defines the essence of Gnosticism and what he calls the Gnostic Religion as, “a certain dualism, an estrangement between man and the world A cosmic nihilism as such begotten by whatever historical circumstances characteristic traits of existentialism might evolve. In addition to treating ‘Gnosticism’ as an irreducible and ahistorical phenomenon, Jonas’ and his supporters examine Gnosticism as a typological construct from which it is possible to arrange otherwise disparate groups into a univocal heresy and antagonist to early Christianity. ” The characteristics ‘dualism’ and ‘world rejection’ that Jonas perceives as paramount in Gnosticism are based for the most part on Manicheaen and patristic sources rather than primary sources. http://www.hermeticgoldendawn.org/Documents/Essays/Gnosticism.htm   (2162 words)

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