Gnosticism
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85055466
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85055466#concept
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Sources
- found: OED online, Sept. 10, 2019:Gnostic (as a noun: The designation given to certain heretical sects among the early Christians who claimed to have superior knowledge of things spiritual, and interpreted the sacred writings by a mystic philosophy)
- found: Merriam Webster online, Sept. 10, 2019:gnosticism (the thought and practice especially of various cults of late pre-Christian and early Christian centuries distinguished by the conviction that matter is evil and that emancipation comes through gnosis)
LC Classification
- B638
- BT1390
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Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 2019-10-04: revised
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