is a blanket term for various religions and sects most prominent in the first few centuries AD
(occult) - a religious movement widespread at the time of Christ, which has its roots in the actual temptation of Eve and Adam in the garden and in many pagan religions of antiquity. Paul encountered the Stoic pantheists at the Areopagus (Acts 17:16-31). ...
From the Greek gnosis (knowledge). A diversity of pre-Christian and early-Christian beliefs. A central tenet is the corruption of the physical world, and the ability of some to transcend it through acquisition of esoteric spiritual knowledge.
A philosophical and religious system (1st to 6th century) teaching that knowledge rather than faith was the key to salvation
from gnosis, 'knowledge' but especially referring to a secret or esoteric knowledge of God. Shortly after the New Testament books and epistles were written and distributed, particularly in Alexandria, they became mixed with legends, doctrines from other religions, eastern mysticism, fables and ...
from the Greek gnosis ("knowledge"); a belief system that flousrished in Hellenistic culture. It had a profound influence on Christianity, particularly in the Johannine tradition (ie, the gospel of John, the letters of John, the gospel of Thomas). ...
the word was created by modern scholors to refer to the sects of the Late Antiquities that shared a similar cosmology and soteriology. More recently the definition has been widened in some circles to mean any form of mysticism or esotericism. ...
is from the Greek [gnosis], meaning knowing or knowledge, and implies a esoteric knowledge of higher things. ...
A dualistic belief system rooted in Platonic philosophy which attempted to co-opt the story and person of Jesus Christ into its categories.
The name, derived from the Greek word gnosis ("knowledge"), given to a complex religious movement that in its Christian form comes into clear prominence in the 2nd century. ...
(nos ti siz eùm) Mystical perception of spiritual knowledge.
a system of false teachings that existed during the early centuries of Christianity. Its name came from the Greek word for knowledge, gnosis. The Gnostics believed that knowledge was the way to salvation. ...
The doctrines of certain early Christian cults (particularly in Egypt) that valued inquiry into spiritual truth above faith.
(from Greek gnosis, knowledge) is a term created by modern scholars to describe a diverse religious movement often associated with Christianity, although textual evidence for the movement contains distinctly non- and anti-Christian elements, as well as anti-Judaic elements. ...
a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches
Gnosticism (γνώσις gnōsis, knowledge) refers to a diverse, syncretistic religious movement consisting of various belief systems generally united in the teaching that humans are divine souls trapped in a material world created by an imperfect spirit, the demiurge, who is frequently ...
a variety of Jewish and early Christian sects having an interest in gnosis, or divine knowledge
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