Gnosticism - Wikipedia
网页Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: γνωστικός, romanized: gnōstikós, Koine Greek: [ɣnostiˈkos], 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects.
Gnosticism: Definition and Beliefs - Learn Religions
网页2024年8月30日 · Gnosticism was a second-century religious movement claiming that salvation could be gained through a special form of secret knowledge. Adherents believed that the material world was created by a lesser divinity, and only through this esoteric wisdom could one transcend this flawed reality.
Gnosticism | Definition, Texts, Movements, & Influence
网页5 天之前 · Gnosticism, any of various Greco-Roman philosophical and religious movements prominent in the early Christian era.
What Is Gnosticism and Who Are the Gnostics? - Learn Religions
网页2019年1月26日 · Gnosis is a Greek word for knowledge, and in Gnosticism (and religion in general) it refers to awareness, experience, and knowledge of the presence of God. It also frequently refers to self-awareness, as one realizes and recognizes the divine spark within their mortal shell.
Gnosticism - World History Encyclopedia
网页2021年4月9日 · Gnosticism is the belief that human beings contain a piece of God (the highest good or a divine spark) within themselves, which has fallen from the immaterial world into the bodies of humans. All physical matter is subject to decay, rotting, and death.
Gnosticism: Origin, Meaning and Relation to Christianity
网页2024年6月10日 · What Was Gnosticism? Gnosticism was a notable heretical movement of the 2nd-century Christian Church, partially of pre-Christian origin. The gnostic doctrine taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity, the demiurge, and that Christ represented the remote supreme divine being.
Gnosticism - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
网页Gnosticism (after gnôsis, the Greek word for “knowledge” or “insight”) is the name given to a loosely organized religious and philosophical movement that flourished in the first and second centuries CE.
Gnosticism summary | Britannica
网页Male and female saviours (including Jesus) were sent from the world above to instruct humanity in the knowledge of the true God and humanity’s own divine nature. In general, Gnostics taught cosmological dualism, strict asceticism, repudiation of material creation as evil, docetism, and the existence of the divine spark in humans.
What is gnosticism? | Britannica
网页Gnosticism is a term modern scholars have used to refer to any of various philosophical and ideological movements in the Greco-Roman world in the early Christian era, particularly in the 2nd century.
What is Christian Gnosticism? | GotQuestions.org
网页2022年1月4日 · It is God’s written revelation to mankind and is never superseded by man’s thoughts, ideas, writings, or visions. The Gnostics, on the other hand, use a variety of early heretical writings known as the Gnostic gospels, a collection of forgeries claiming to be “lost books of the Bible.”