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In addition to appreciating a good story, some listeners may be enticed into further study of these "lost gospels," Gnosticism, and the history of the early Christian church. Though generous in his praise of creative thought in Russian Orthodoxy, he inevitably discomfited traditionalists who saw him as a "victim of his time" who harbored, from his early Marxist days, anti-clerical sentiments, an excessive anthropocentric propensity to glorify human powers of creativity, a romantic inclination to blur the lines between flawed human nature and divine perfection, and an idiosyncratic tendency to hold views akin to Gnosticism. Many of these works were greatly influenced by what is today called Gnosticism, a term encompassing complex and varied theological and philosophical systems that involved secret or special knowledge (gnosis in Greek). |
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