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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:07 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: According to Irenaeus, who were the Gnostics?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 206
Re: According to Irenaeus, who were the Gnostics?
In book 2, Irenaeus has a reference re: "these same arguments will apply against the followers of Saturninus, Basilides, Carpocrates, and the rest of the Gnostics." This might seem to imply that Saturninus, Basilides, and Carpocrates were gnostics. Birger A. Pearson makes reference to Boo...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:02 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
- Replies: 449
- Views: 13667
Re: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
Just putting this here so I can look into it later. Origen, Contra Celsum, 4.51 I know, moreover, that Numenius the Pythagorean--a surpassingly excellent expounder of Plato, and who held a foremost place as a teacher of the doctrines of Pythagoras--in many of his works quotes from the writings of M...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:59 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Numenius: (1) Agathos, (2) Nous, (3) Demiurge
- Replies: 1
- Views: 14
Re: Numenius: (1) Agathos, (2) Nous, (3) Demiurge
On the Good by Numenius is such a rich topic. I hope it can be explored further.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:59 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Numenius: (1) Agathos, (2) Nous, (3) Demiurge
- Replies: 1
- Views: 14
Numenius: (1) Agathos, (2) Nous, (3) Demiurge
Numenius was a philosopher with an interest in metaphysics, who (among other things) wrote a work in six books titled On the Good . Like other philosophers, he considered that there was some kind of Pythagorean knowledge transmitted to and revealed by the Attic philosophers. The wisdom of Pythagoras...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: According to Irenaeus, who were the Gnostics?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 206
Re: According to Irenaeus, who were the Gnostics?
In book 2, Irenaeus has a reference re: "these same arguments will apply against the followers of Saturninus, Basilides, Carpocrates, and the rest of the Gnostics." This might seem to imply that Saturninus, Basilides, and Carpocrates were gnostics. Birger A. Pearson makes reference to Boo...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: History trumps Theology
- Replies: 47
- Views: 323
Re: History trumps Theology
That's funny because you've been posting these slogans for years and now declare a discussion of what they mean or imply "boring."
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:11 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: History trumps Theology
- Replies: 47
- Views: 323
Re: History trumps Theology
It means what it says. History and theology are not equal methods for the task of understanding the past. Can you provide an example of a time when someone on the forum employed a "method" of "theology" for "understanding the past"? I'm stating a fundamental principle ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:02 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: History trumps Theology
- Replies: 47
- Views: 323
Re: History trumps Theology
That history trumps theology is surely a fundamental approach to intellectual deliberations. What does the slogan mean? It means what it says. History and theology are not equal methods for the task of understanding the past. Can you provide an example of a time when someone on the forum employed a...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: History trumps Theology
- Replies: 47
- Views: 323
Re: History trumps Theology
That history trumps theology is surely a fundamental approach to intellectual deliberations. What does the slogan mean? It means what it says. History and theology are not equal methods for the task of understanding the past. Can you provide an example of a time when someone on the forum employed a...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: Can we have an AI Translator Thread?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 31
Re: Can we have an AI Translator Thread?
I can recommend ChatGPT, and I haven't found anything comparable yet.
The only improvement I've found is "more ChatGPT" (e.g. breaking up the input at different parts of the Greek, starting a new conversation, etc.).
The only improvement I've found is "more ChatGPT" (e.g. breaking up the input at different parts of the Greek, starting a new conversation, etc.).