Similar words: agnosticism, diagnostician, gnostic, agnostic, diagnostic, prognostic, diagnostics, prognosticate. Meaning: ['nɒstɪsɪzəm] 
n. a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches.
n. a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches. 
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1. Plotinus wrote his most impassioned tract to attack Gnosticism as pretentious mumbo-jumbo.
2. Butto see Gnosticism principally in terms of divination and prognostication is to fail to understand it.
3. In one form or another Gnosticism has permanently remained an underground concomitant of the church.
4. Ouroboros is associated with Alchemy -- Gnosticism and Hermeticism.
5. Gnosticism reached the Western world through Egypt.
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6. Eastern Gnosticism took a somewhat different course.
7. In Marcionism, the most dualistic phase of Gnosticism, salvation consisted in the possession of the knowledge of the Good God and the rejection of the Demiurge .
8. The theological speculations of Gnosticism and the Cabala gave ideas for many of his plots.
9. Gnosticism is an esoteric religious movement that flourished during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD and presented a major challenge to orthodox Christianity.
10. It contains five poems inspired by Gnosticism and Gnostics writings, e. g. Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi documents.
11. Gnosticism was denounced by the Christian theologians Irenaeus, Hippolytus, and Tertullian.
12. Yet one still finds anachronistic and peculiar accounts of "Gnosticism" by Eric Voegelin and his followers that routinely claim "gnosis" as the origin of modern totalitarianism.
13. Platonism itself might be called proto-Gnostic, that is,Gnosticism before Gnosticism.
14. In a sense, typological exegesis is a hermeneutical strategy adopted by early church to unite New Testament and Old Testament and to reconcile Marcionism and Gnosticism.
15. Jung was especially knowledgeable in the symbolism of complex mystical traditions such as Gnosticism , Alchemy, Kabala, and similar traditions in Hinduism and Buddhism.
16. Hence, the aporia of aesthetic myth writing derived from Gnosticism 's dualism, which was represented in western aesthetic history of Prometheus myth writings.
17. Despite his unorthodox views, which were apparently influenced by gnosticism and Manichaean dualism, he became bishop of Avila in 380.
18. In this letter and in much of his later work, Voegelin confuses Gnosticism and "historical eschatology" or millennialism.
19. This tradition informs the treatment of Satan in some forms of Christian gnosticism.
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