| LC control no. | sh 85055466 |
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| LC classification | B638 Philosophy BT1390 Theology |
| Topical heading | Gnosticism |
| See also | Cults |
| Found in | 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) 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) |
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