RELG 205 Lecture Notes - Gnosticism, Presbyter, Docetism
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Devises a system that can go forward in the future (thomas: moves from small revolutionary group, to an institution that dominates, christianity similar to other groups at the time, paul, very dedicated to his vision, getting other people to implement it, equality of human. Not considered to be the same as men or women, third gender, higher than woman, lower than men: woman was not equal to a man, when the christians give women a high role in the church very revolutionary, culture predominates over religion eventually the culture was not willing to except it, asceticism: removed from society, build spiritual power by isolation and giving up material goods, connection between celibacy and asceticism. God is abstract than modern christians think: world was created by a demiurge, creator of the material world which is bad, satan created the earth, god created the spirit universe, death frees us from our bodies our spirit is trapped.
