HIS101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gnosticism, Marcionism, Scientific Method
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Religion is a dynamic field of study as it has many definitions: historically speaking, religion has: Academic study of religion: involves continuity and change. Uncomfortable approach because of some eternal religious patterns. The personal experience people have with the divine reality: historically, this cannot be assessed as evidence is needed. Invention: christianity: an invention is anything one can come across or discover thus religion can be considered an invention, the jesus of nazareth is considered to be the historical jesus. He is different from jesus christ or the messiah. There are no accounts of his life, however paul (saul of tarsus 10-65 ce) and josephus wrote about this jesus of nazareth. Thought that christians should abandon jewish ties. Saw god as a divine being: christian gnostics. These individuals believed in many gods: proto-orthodox. This was the dominant form of christianity at the time. It believed that god was both divine and a man.
