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scripture tradition gnosticism criticism

by JS Penman · 1983 — To this criticism the Gnostics generally replied, "Many are called, but few are chosen." Marcion of Sinop was one of the first Christian Gnostic challengers of ...

by ANS Lane · Cited by 55 — Against second-century Gnostics it was a powerful and perfectly reasonable argument to note that those churches which were taught by the apostles and had openly ...19

This response is ironic, since much of early Gnosticism was deeply critical of traditional. Judaism. Gnostics believed that there were actually two Gods, ...43 pages

scripture tradition gnosticism criticism

At this point, the Gnostic revisionary critique of the Hebrew Scriptures begins, as well as the general rejection of this world as a product of error and ...

by M Barker · Cited by 7 — 'If then we assert that Christ himself is Wisdom, and that it was His working that showed itself in the prophets, by which the Gnostic tradition may be learned, ...23

by C Spencer — Gnosticism, a religious phenomenon of late antiquity, mixed Greek metaphysics and mythology with biblical exegesis to create narratives of the nature of God, ...

mainstream Christian church. What critics from Irenaeus to contem- porary scholars lose sight of is that Gnostic teaching is the direct result.

See also the helpful literature reviews of Alastair Logan, Gnostic Truth and ... quaintance with Jewish traditions, both scriptural and exegetical. Moreo-.

by CFC Coetzee · 2008 · Cited by 5 — Gnosticism met with Christian opponents and critics such as ... as over and against church tradition in which there was em- phasis on the events that had ...