{"id":475,"date":"2016-06-24T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=475"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:39:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:39:32","slug":"appendix-z15-gnosticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"APPENDIX Z15: Gnosticism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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APPENDIX Z15:<\/div>\n
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Gnosticism<\/div>\n
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(selected WIKI excerpts)*<\/div>\n
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\u201cGnosticism (from gnostikos, \u201clearned\u201d, from Gr<\/span>eek:\n <\/div>\n
\u03b3\u03bd\u1ff6\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 gn\u014d<\/span>sis, knowledge) is a modern scholarly <\/span><\/span><\/span>\n <\/div>\n
term for a set of religious beliefs and spiritual
\n practices\n <\/div>\n
found among some of the early Christian sects
\n called\n <\/div>\n
\u201cgnostic\u201d (\u201clearned\u201d) by Irenaeus and other early
\n Christian\n <\/div>\n
heresiologists. The term also has r<\/span>eference to parallels\n <\/div>\n
and possible pre-Christian in\ue0c5uences of the
\n Christian\n <\/div>\n
gnostics.<\/div>\n
Gnosticism was primarily de\ue0c4ned in Christian
\n context, or\n <\/div>\n
as \u2018the acute Hellenization of Christianity\u2019 per
\n Adolf von\n <\/div>\n
Harnack (1885), until Moritz Friedl\u00e4nder (1898)
\n advocated\n <\/div>\n
Hellenistic Jewish origins, and W<\/span>ilhelm Bousset (1907)\n <\/div>\n
advocated Persian origins\u2026.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n
Common characteristics<\/div>\n
\u201c\u2026.The Christian sects \ue0c4rst called \u201cgnostic\u201d a
\n branch\n <\/div>\n
of Christianity<\/span>, however
\n Joseph Jacobs and Ludwig\n <\/div>\n
Blau (Jewish Encyclopedia, 1911) note that much of
\n the\n <\/div>\n
terminology employed is Jewish and note that this
\n \u201cproves\n <\/div>\n
at least that the principal elements of gnosticism
\n were\n <\/div>\n
derived from Jewish speculation,\u2026.\u201d<\/div>\n
Monad (apophatic theology)<\/div>\n
\u201cIn many Gnostic systems (and heresiologies), God
\n is\n <\/div>\n
known as the Monad, the One, The Absolute, Aion
\n teleos\n <\/div>\n
(The Perfect \u00c6on), Bythos (Depth or Profundity<\/span>, \u0392\u03c5\u03b8\u03bf\u03c2<\/span>),\n <\/div>\n
Proarkhe (Befor<\/span>e the
\n Beginning, \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03b7<\/span>), and E Arkhe\n <\/div>\n
(The Beginning, \u03b7 \u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03b7<\/span>).
\n God is the high source of the\n <\/div>\n
pleroma, the r<\/span>egion of
\n light. The various emanations of\n <\/div>\n
God are called \u00e6ons.<\/div>\n
W<\/span>ithin certain variations
\n of Gnosticism, especially those\n <\/div>\n
inspired by Monoimus, the Monad was the highest
\n God\n <\/div>\n
which created lesser gods, or elements (similar to
\n \u00e6ons).\n <\/div>\n
According to Hippolytus, this view was inspir<\/span>ed by the\n <\/div>\n
Pythagoreans, who called the \ue0c4rst thing that came
\n into\n <\/div>\n
existence the Monad, which begat the dyad, which
\n begat\n <\/div>\n
the numbers, which begat the point, begetting
\n lines,\n <\/div>\n
etc\u2026.\u201d<\/div>\n
*<\/div>\n
Wikipedia Online, http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gnosticism (accessesd <\/span>February 26, 2012)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

APPENDIX Z15: Gnosticism (selected WIKI excerpts)* \u201cGnosticism (from gnostikos, \u201clearned\u201d, from Greek: \u03b3\u03bd\u1ff6\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 gn\u014dsis, knowledge) is a modern scholarly term for a set of religious beliefs and spiritual practices found among some of the early Christian sects called \u201cgnostic\u201d (\u201clearned\u201d) by Irenaeus and other early Christian heresiologists. The term also has reference to parallels and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}