Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnosticisms
Literary usage of Gnosticisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Democracy: A History of Its Suppression and Revival by John McDowell Leavitt (1896)
"Some gnosticisms had a Greek source. Traceable to the Platonic philosophy, they
borrowed its v1.rj—gross matter in eternal antagonism to pure spirit. ..."
2. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber, Frank Thilly (1896)
"... Boston, 1865]; J. Matter, Histoire critique du gnosticisms, 3 vols., Paris,
1823; 2d ed., 1843; F. Chr. Baur, ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... Histoire critique du gnosticisms, i., Paris, 1828, and Strasburg, 1843; idem.
Abraxas in Herzog, RE, 2d ed., 1877; S. Sharpe, Egyptian Mythology, p. ..."
4. The Neo-Platonists: A Study in the History of Hellenism by Thomas Whittaker (1901)
"At the end of his Histoire Critique du gnosticisms, Matter devotes some pages to
this prolongation. In those religious heresies of Languedoc which, ..."
5. A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern by John Mackinnon Robertson (1915)
"... despite fierce persecution and hostile propaganda, their influence subsisting
till the Middle Ages.8 The other gnosticisms fared much worse. ..."