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Gnosticism

Gnos·ti·cism

Gnosticism

 
pronunciation:
na st sih zm
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part of speech: noun
definition: an early Christian religious movement whose adherents believed in salvation through spiritual knowledge (gnosis), in the evil nature of the material world, and in the incorporeality of Jesus Christ, and which was condemned as a heresy by the Church Fathers.
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