Gnostic

['nɔstik]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) an advocate of Gnosticism.

(adj.) possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things .

(adj.) of or relating to Gnosticism; 'Gnostic writings' .

亚历克斯編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Knowing; wise; shrewd.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy.

(n.) One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.

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解釋/意思:

n. (theol.) one of a sect in the beginning of the Christian era which maintained that knowledge (gnōsis) and not faith (pistis) was the way of salvation allegorised away the great facts of Christ's person and work and represented individual life as the result of a process of emanation from the original essence.—adj. having knowledge: knowing cunning: pertaining to the Gnostics.—ns. Gnō′sis knowledge: mystical knowledge; Gnos′ticism the eclectic doctrines of the Gnostics.

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