THEO 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gnosticism, Docetism, Justin Martyr
21 Feb 2020
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Esoteric religious movement that flourished during the 2nd and 3rd centuries ad and presented a major challenge to christianity. It is brought by a divine redeemer: the salvific knowledge comes from outside the world, christ is the one who brings this knowledge from above, some gnostics (docetists, gk. 27:46 my god, my god, why have you forsaken me? ) Gnosticism: la bibliotheque copte de nag hammadi, the biblioth que copte de nag hammadi website is the only critical edition and french translation of the coptic manuscript collection discovered in 1945 near the town of nag. Hammadi in egypt: facult de th ologie et de sciences religieuses, universit laval, qu bec, canada. "proto-orthodox" refers to those commonly known as the early church fathers (for example, justin. Martyr and irenaeus of lyon), who ended up defining what exactly should be orthodox (or correct) belief: orthodox christianity - non-dualistic, salvation through faith, non-elitistic, yet open to all.
