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Clear searchHistory, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…nostic impulse has reappeared within modern Protestantism, particularly in North America. Ancient Gnostics, on his account, sought salvation in private illumination rather than the public life of a believing community. Modern Protestants likewise elevate the knowing self over the…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…leave an institution that binds the conscience beyond Scripture are said to resemble the ancient Gnostic impulse—a flight from matter, history, authority and ordinary Christian fellowship into a private world of disembodied knowledge. The charge would be easier to dismiss if I f…
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…they are true. But we should not pretend that they are philosophically ordinary. To many ancient minds, the idea would have sounded almost absurd. The higher belonged above; the material belonged below. Perfection meant freedom from change, bodily weakness and suffering. The jou…
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