PPT-INTRODUCTION TO GNOSTICISM

Rolan D Monje APLA 2011 10 Why study Gnosticism Today we have to deal with numerous attractive teachings New Age Movement Astrological Prophecies But these have their roots in schools of counterfeit Christianity we find in Early Church History. (TSF Bulletin 68, Spring 1974, pp. the author considered tH'O possiM' origins of Gnosticism: the Old Testament and JudaislII alld the Greek world. Here he continues the disclIssion. 3. The Introduction:Introduction: Introduction:Introduction:A hard concept to sellA hard concept to sell Making sure the combat doesn Spirituality. Part 1. Christianity. Resist current modernity . (where postmodernism has led). Fundamentalism . Challenge the current modernity. Re-articulate but maintain orthodoxy. Adaptation / Acquiescence. History and Hype. Robert C. Newman. Mary Magdalene. A great deal of interest recently…. … much of this spawned by Dan Brown's . Da Vinci Code.. Was Mary really married to Jesus?. Did they have a child which united the two royal families of Israel?. Internal Church Struggles . Early Struggles for Doctrinal Purity . In the early 2. nd. century, the early church faced some external struggles that could have spelled certain doom for the growth Christianity. . A NEW GNOSTICISM? by GERALD L. BORCHERT pROFESSOR BORCHERT is Associate Professor of New Testament in the North American Baptist Seminary, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He is a of frinceton Theol Preliminary Summary. What does Gnosticism seek to provide? . What spiritual help does it offer?. www.gnosis.org. Preliminary Summary. Gnosticism is the teaching based on . gnosis. , the . knowledge. of transcendence arrived at by way of interior, intuitive means. . of Judas. Robert C. Newman. Announcement. Press conference April 6, 2006. National Geographic Society. Only known surviving manuscript of the ancient Gospel of Judas. Part of a booklet:. Containing three Gnostic works. Orthodoxy. Orthodoxy means “conforming to the Christian faith as represented in the creeds of the early . Church.”. Orthodoxy derives from the Greek words . orthos. . (correct). + . doxa. . (belief). . 2. nd. Century. Church. The new coverts came from various backgrounds which brought various cultures. Syncretism was important to Greeks. Take different pieces from different beliefs. This brought different interpretations. Robert C. Newman. Mary Magdalene. A great deal of interest recently…. … much of this spawned by Dan Brown's . Da Vinci Code.. Was Mary really married to Jesus?. Did they have a child which united the two royal families of Israel?. LAWLESSNESS. (2 Thessalonians 2:7). Sources of Information for this sermon. Primitive Christianity in Crisis, . by Alan Knight. ABC lectures. . by Roy Holladay. ABC lectures by Darris . McNeely. Ambassador College class outlines by Dr. Don Ward. Theological error: Who Jesus is and what He accomplished. Practical error: Either abject asceticism or extreme libertinism. Ascetics. Libertines . FLESH-O-METER. 1:5-10. 1:5-10. 1:5-10. 3 false claims of sin:. took . place . every Sunday. There was no seating, as the people stood throughout the . service. .. How long did the church service typically last?. Three hours. Their Service was divided into . two.