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Meanings of gnostic in anglès
Synonyms
Examples for "heresy"
Examples for "heresy"
1
In 1119 Calixtus II condemned the heresy at its centre in Toulouse.
2
That would have, until relatively recently, been considered heresy round his way.
3
To rebel was sin; to doubt was heresy; to submit was piety.
4
The end that grows is heresy; the end that rots is orthodox.
5
Ruiz-Sanchez sees his research setting him firmly on the road to heresy.
1
Henceforth the theological doctrine of the flatness of the earth was irretrievably overthrown.
2
So he made the Scriptures the sole source of theological doctrine.
3
There is the theological doctrine of the tree of Eden in a new shape.
4
Homer offers theological doctrine in the guise of physical allegory.
5
Those Congressmen had no right to commit this whole country to a theological doctrine.
Usage of gnostic in anglès
1
Ralph seemed to have become, in a somewhat gnostic manner, a full-fledged financier.
2
Eternal life, not eternal knowledge, as the Alexandrian gnostic said.
3
She reads some gnostic texts about goddesses and gods and the Christ within each of us.
4
The capitalist narrative is replaced by that of the communist; the religious fundamentalist's replaced by the gnostic's.
5
Shivering Wisdom publish in High Kettai: philosophy and science and ancient texts, gnostic mechonomy and the like.
6
My library is gnostic, oecumenic and spiritual.
7
The following gnostic and praxic alterations can be explained by lesions in the association areas of the neocortex.
8
The play ranged with nearly random abandon over mythology, current events, conspiracy theories and fragments of gnostic knowledge.
9
To their external scientific socialism these Masons added mystic concepts which were thought to be "gnostic" in origin.
10
Mythology succeeded animism, and has in turn yielded to many curious and vanished theories, polytheistic, gnostic, pantheistic, and the rest.
11
It is perfectly orthodox, but full of the most ludicrous tricks of gnostic fancy-thewish to find the New Testament in the Old.
12
It is worth noting that the richest modern find of gnostic literature, from Nag Hammadi, came from a Christian monastic community of fourth-century date.
13
It kind of sounds like a horrifyingly dark branch of gnostic theology that none of us could accept with without going stark raving mad.
14
We further note that there is no trace of false asceticism or of gnostic contempt for the body in its designation as 'of our humiliation.'
15
The term of "gnostic," which was at first so honourable, signifying "learned," "enlightened," "pure," became a term of horror and scorn, a reproach of heresy.
16
To the early Christian anchorites and to the gnostics they were familiar.
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