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How Jung’s Theories of The Self May Be Classified as Gnostic and are Grounded in Gnostic Cosmology
… Jung’s theories of the self may be classified as Gnostic and are grounded in Gnostic cosmology. Murray Stein described Jung’s ideas about Gnosticism in relation to the self as hard to follow, and other Jungian analysts have interpreted ancient Gnostic texts but have not paid close attention to …
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The Not-So Gnostic Crisis: Encrateia in Exegesis
<p>How should Christians live so as to set them apart in manner of life from Jews? This is one of the first questions asked by early Christian exegetes as Christians sought separation from Judaism. 1 While it may seem like a simple and obvious question, it caused heated controversy from the second …
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Through the Gnostic Threshold: Analogical Space in Swedenborg and Blake
… a common source that I have designated as the "Gnostic threshold." While mystical insight itself cannot pass from master to disciple, the pathways for approaching and attaining that insight can be imparted, as we well know from the world's many mystical traditions. Furthermore, I find that the …
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Losing the Cosmos: Arendt and Voegelin on the Origins of Modernity
… of modernity characterized by alienation and Gnosticism. Three themes are discussed with reference to Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition and Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics: i) the reversal of orders; ii) gnostic alienation; and iii) history. Chapter one situates the crisis in the …
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The Educational Philosophy of Clement of Alexandria in the Stromata
… philosophy. First, his use of the term “Gnostic” (primarily γνωστικός, but also γνώμη) is unique and shows that he understands education to be crucial to, and even necessary for, Christian growth and development. Clement’s Gnostic figure is not just his ideal Christian, but of his …
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The relationship of the son to the father in Justin Martyr
… to associate a Subordinate Son with ideas of the Gnostics and could not find escape from a conclusion that an intimate relationship between the Son and the Father played an insignificant part in Redemption. The sacrifice of Christ was interpreted as a penal substitution where there was some …
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Finding God in the urban landscape : a temple for gnosis in upper Manhattan
Nature and Gnosticism are problematic terms. With the discovery of a library of so called heretical Gnostic texts in 1945, theologians, historians, and believers the world over have been exposed to Christian texts that call into question the liturgical lineage of the "one holy catholic and …
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The Utilization of a Theology of Human Embodiment to Address Body Image
… that denigrated the material realm. Platonic and Gnostic philosophies influenced many Christological heresies that denied the fleshy existence of Christ. These ideologies sparked immoral living as believers reckoned that present physical actions were of no consequence. This dissertation deduces a …
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The Doctrine of God and Exegesis in Irenaeus of Lyons
… In chapter 2, I provide a synopsis of the gnostic doctrine of God and exegesis provided by Irenaeus. While debate exists regarding the reliability of Irenaeus as a source for gnostic theology, I contend that benefit for employing Irenaeus as a reliable source remains. In chapter 3, I …
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Soul searching : an exploration of the relationship between technology and soul through the interpretation of contemporary visual texts
… categories are namely dualism as found in the gnostic approach, monism as it manifests in the animistic approach, and finally the physicalist approach. Gray (2010:638) considers these three approaches as amongst the most common worldviews in contemporary society, thus these provide a diverse …
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Punto Parola Immagine. La genesi del simbolismo visivo nell'architettura islamica (VII-X secolo) in rapporto alla cultura visiva occidentale.
… those of scientific thought and philosophical/gnostic thought of the Islamic world which offer solid and reliable bases for the study of Islamic art and architecture. The structure of the research: I) Using a brief historical summary, a light will be shined on the immense geographical and …
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THE PROVENANCE OF THE ODES OF SOLOMON
… and Johannine literature, to Ignatius, and to gnostic literature, are discussed. In the fourth Chapter, the theological isolation of the odist is discussed by means of a study of the use of individual nuptial imagery in the Odes and a study of the Christological language he uses; but their …
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Dealing with linguistic mismatches for automatic speech recognition
… my dissertation investigates both knowledge-gnostic and knowledge-agnostic solutions. In the first part, classic theories relevant to acoustics and articulatory phonetics that present capability of being transferred across a dialect continuum from local dialects to another standardized …
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Ecclesiological Docetism : in early and medieval dissent and heresy in eastern and western Christianity
… parallel found in the Gnostic dualist tradition, countered by the catholic one of a growing orthodoxy, and the continuing influences and implications in Alexandrian theology. It notes in this setting the implicit docetic tendency in 'heretical' thought to undermine …
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A Historical Evaluation of the Evidence for the Death of the Apostles as Martyrs for Their Faith
… texts, such as the Acts of the Apostles, and Gnostic sources. The evidence for each apostle is examined with a scale that ranges from not possibly true (certainly not historical) to the highest possible probability (nearly historically certain). There are a few key steps to be established in …
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How Should We Then Respond? A Christian Philosophical and Theological Response to Transgender Ideology
… and contend theologically. I demonstrate the gnostic nature of transgender ideology’s sharp mind-body split and juxtapose it with the value and meaning that Scripture communicates about the human body. I argue that sexed-embodiment is the natural state of human existence and is therefore good …
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Representations of the Care of the Soul in Early Christian Texts
… misleadingly subsumed under the umbrella term, “Gnostic.” Chapter one explores the value of applying Foucault's framework to the history of the early Christianities. Chapter two explains the way in which martyrdom functions as care of the soul, or therapy of the emotions, in texts ascribed to …
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Konfliktas ankstyvosios krikščionybės srovėse: Evangelijos pagal Mariją atvejis /
… 2nd century A. D., is an important monument of gnostic literature. The collision of Gnosticism and orthodox Christianity is pronounced in the Gospel of Mary. In order to highlight this conflict, the thesis firstly investigated the cosmology of the Gospel of Mary and found that the text is a …
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Panic on the British Borderlands: The Great God Pan, Victorian Sexuality, and Sacred Space in the Works of Arthur Machen
… modernity. Within the esoteric traditions, the Gnostic outlook of a fractured creation corresponds to the cosmogony of a divided cosmos and the disjointed realities that are found in Machen's late-Victorian literary horror and supernatural fiction. The Gnostic microcosm, at the local level, and …
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