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History of the Papacy Podcast

Episode 19: Gnosticism Part 2 - Sacred Literature and Groups

History of the Papacy Podcast

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4.4532 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2013

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In the previous episode, we discussed some of the beliefs of the Gnostics. Now we will talk about the documents various Gnostic groups used as their scared literature, along with the characteristics of these groups. We will also discuss the...

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Episode 19, Gnosticism, Part 2, Sacred Literature and Groups.

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Welcome back to the History of the Papacy podcast.

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I am, as always, Steve, your host for this podcast about the History of the Papacy podcast. I am, as always, Steve, your host for this

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In the last episode, we looked at the basic practices of the Gnostic groups in general.

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It's hard to really talk about them in specific because there's so many different groups.

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In this episode, we're going to look at some of the various Gnostic sects, two in particular that were quite powerful at the time,

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and the sacred literature that was used in general by Gnostics.

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Different groups use different documents as their sacred literature. Before we dig in,

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we're going to look at what a gospel is in general, and some of the different terms that are used

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