1. Gnosticism It's Early Beginnings and It's Assault on today's Christianity
... influence on the early church, the canonization of the New Testament, and continues today to influence the understanding of Christianity. Many consider the growth of the American religions to be a distinctive form of Gnosticism. I will start with a broad definition of Gnosticism. GNOSTICISM is a mixed and diverse group of thinkers, ideas, and treatises that became a force in the second century CE and continued ... hidden Gnosis (Greek meaning "knowledge"), the possession of which would free one from the fragmentary and illusory (or evil) material world (bodily existence) and teach one ab...
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