THEO 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nag Hammadi Library, Gnosticism, Muratorian Fragment

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Gnosticism: movement that developed for several centuries, unknown when it started, by second century it is very wide spread. This presents challenges to another movement that was developing through teachings of jesus, proto-orthodox (mainstream. Christianity that ended up becoming popular during 4th century. There was a lot of talk of gnosticism, alternative to. Christianity that was repressed by church due to its teachings. Gnosticism, the church was afraid and gnosticism was powerful. Dan brown was wrong, he was trying to mix historical truth with a lot of fiction, maybe of his claims were not accurate. Gnosticism appeared in many forms, not as cohesive and coherent as one would think. It is true that gnosticism presented a major challenge to early christianity. The first to really say what was bible for christians was some gnostic teachers, other stream of. Christianity proto orthodox, began to ask questions, about what should be considered scripture, and bible.

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