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US
/ˈnɑstɪˌsɪzəm/
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NOUN
- a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches
How To Use Gnosticism In A Sentence
- They suffered years of guilt and dissimulation before they could announce their own agnosticism or adamant disbelief.
- Upon the whole we may see here how foolish it is to seek to dispose of Gnosticism with the phrase lawless fancies. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
- Despite their arguments, I still saw no reason to abandon my agnosticism.
- Still his doctrine seems to have been a heathen Gnosticism, in which he proclaimed himself as the Standing One, the principal emanation of the Deity and the Redeemer.
- Words Containing One Basic Root canine cynic ` dog 'febrile pyretic ` fever' lingual glossal ` tongue 'peculiar idiotic ` one's own, private' popular demotic ` people 'position thesis ` place, put' rabies mania ` madness 'regal basilic ` king' risible gelastic ` laugh 'scientism gnosticism ` know' stellar astral ` star 'terrene chthonic ` earth' testis orchid ` testis ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3
- agnosticism holds that you can neither prove nor disprove God's existence
- In fact, Sanskrit and Pali have a larger literature in defence of atheism, agnosticism and theological scepticism than exists in any other classical language.
- The theological speculations of Gnosticism and the Cabala gave ideas for many of his plots.
- Atheism, agnosticism and free thinkers are the products of rational thinking, skeptical inquiry and critical analysis, which severely put religious belief on the defensive. Dr T.P.Chia
- Gnosticism is the false gnosis that Paul and John both addressed in their letters to the early churches.
