Sentence examples for having been a Gnostic from inspiring English sources

He is reported to have adopted the Jewish faith after having been a Gnostic.

It had been a long time since Ms. Pagels, a renowned biblical scholar whose 1979 book "The Gnostic Gospels" won the National Book and the National Book Critics Circle Awards, had been to church.

APOCALYPSE THEN: The historian Elaine Pagels has been a popular, though polarizing, figure ever since she introduced readers to early competing views of Christianity in her 1979 book "The Gnostic Gospels," which won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The other thing that came out of it for me was that I had been reading the Gnostic Gospels.

Religious metaphors are rife in these conversations about bread, cheese and coffee – these everyday items have been elevated to gnostic mysteries.

The saying is similar to themes found in Jewish Wisdom literature, and the similarity to a saying in the Gospel of Thomas suggests that the text may have been influenced by gnostic Wisdom teaching.

Moon's faith is more syncretistic: "I have been focusing on studying gnostic Christianity and different types of neo-paganism lately.

But the Gospel of Judas, another piece of Gnostic scripture, has been released in a very different era.

It must be remembered that at that time Paul had been adopted as a primary authority by the Gnostic heretics.

Among the works that have been influential in the spread of gnostic ideas are treatises like Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān al-ṣafā) and The Mother of Books (Umm al-kitāb) (Daftary 1990; Nasr & Aminrazavi 1999/2001).

The Mandaeans are a gnostic sect originating in Iraq and Iran who have been subjected to repeated traumatization and suffered many losses [ 14, 15].