2025年1月13日 · gnosticism, any of various related philosophical and religious movements prominent in the Greco-Roman world in the early Christian era, particularly the 2nd century. The designation gnosticism is a term of modern scholarship.

Because gnosticism is a disputed term, and the groups conventionally considered gnostic were not part of a single movement, treating their belief systems as uniform is problematic. However, these groups’ mythologies tended to differ thematically from Christianity in their characterization of God and in their focus.

2025年1月26日 · Gnosticism, from the Greek gnōstikos (one who has gnōsis, or “secret knowledge”), was an important movement in the early Christian centuries—especially the 2nd—that offered an alternative to emerging orthodox Christian teaching.

2025年1月13日 · What is gnosticism? How does gnosticism differ from Christianity? Does gnosticism predate Christianity?

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.

2025年1月13日 · What is gnosticism? How does gnosticism differ from Christianity? Does gnosticism predate Christianity?

Some teachings identified with gnosticism may have emerged before Christianity did. Others may have developed apart from Christianity, in heterodox Jewish circles, and then been adapted by groups that considered themselves to be Christian.

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. The meaning of the term is, however, disputed, and there is little scholarly consensus on whether these movements are in fact related and, if so, how.

2025年1月26日 · Christianity, major religion stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of God) in the 1st century ce. It has become the largest of the world’s religions and, geographically, the most widely diffused of all faiths.

Cerinthus (flourished c. ad 100) was a Christian heretic whose errors, according to the theologian Irenaeus, led the apostle John to write his New Testament Gospel. Cerinthus was probably born a Jew in Egypt.