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Word | Gnosticism |
Portuguese Meaning | gnosticismo |
a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches / a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person''s spiritual element / a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element / a prominent heretical movement of the 2nd-century Christian Church, partly of pre-Christian origin. Gnostic doctrine taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity, the demiurge, and that Christ was an emissary of the remote supreme divine being, esoteric knowledge (gnosis) of whom enabled the redemption of the human spirit., | |
Usage | ⇒ And John's gospel is certainly far removed from the full-blown Gnosticism which the later church fathers attacked as heretical. |
Synonyms | the gnosticism, |
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