--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- uns_tressor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > The gnostic tradition of the Christian church was > > > almost utterly crushed-out by the 400AD. > > > > Intriguing. What happened? > > Uns. > > Elaine Pagels writes about it in "The Gnostic > Gospels". With the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls > and the Nag Hammadi Library, it's become clear that > the first few 100 years after Christ's death that > there were two Christian traditions. One was > experiential, the Gnostic, and the other is what > survives today. To find out more about it, Pagels is > a good place to start. She's a serious, academic > researcher. Why the gnostic tradition died out is open > to hypothesis, but the direct experiential realization > of Christ was replaced by conceptual dogma.
There's also a pretty good Wikipedia article on Gnosticism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism According to the article, the Gnostic tradition is generally believed to predate Christianity, although some scholars disagree. There's an active Gnostic Usenet newsgroup, alt.religion.gnostic. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
