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gnosticism - Coggle Diagram
gnosticism
forms
john gospel
other gospels later discovered
later perennial philosophy infleuences/theosophy
hermeticism
Jungian "sermons to the dead"
new age adoption
?continuing infleuence in eastern church
manicheanism
context
1-3rd century
early church pre nicean creed
pre adoption of judaeic OT/cosmology
early heretical persecution
historiography from heretological writing
??fusion with hellenistic/neoplatonic infleuences
merton heretical vs christian
hellenic; demiurge cosmology
culture belief
OT god as seperate demiurge
OT/NT ethical tension to a dualism
neoplatonic underpinning
gnosis as wisdom/knowing ?vs the word/logos
conceptual conflict with christological monotheism
mysticism
neoplatonic hypostacism to "the one"
eg johns writing
aphoristic proverbial style of other gospels