"Sacred Roots: Neo-gnosticism: Today’s Most Serious Threat to the Church" by Stephen Russell
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- January 25, 2025
Strength to Strength welcomed Stephen Russell to discuss Gnosticism and its effects.
Today’s Gnostics are the secular materialists. At first it may seem strange to name them Gnostics since they do not reject the physical, indeed they only believe in the physical. However, like the early Gnostics they reject part of God’s good creation and try to squeeze all of reality into their narrow conception that only the physical is real.
An interactive question-and-answer period follows.
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A sincere thanks for this presentation and the subsequent discussion! We need more of this very kind of philosophic consideration. When the world runs amuck, Christ expects us to be there with His answers. More power to every effort in this direction. I especially appreciate the idea that Christian history stands beside Revelation and Nature to provide answers for navigating the times in which we live. We now have 2000 years worth of Christian history to consider as we face contemporary issues and I would understand that Christ expects us to put that history to good use.
I'm really interested in some of the books you mentioned. I also want to crack open Pascal's Pensees again, which I probably haven't read in over 15 years. Thank you for sharing!!
Trying to be reserved in what I say.. I would just like to warn that what is mentioned is only one side of gnosticism.. blending of Paganism with Christianity. There were Ante Nicean Church leaders, such as Clement of Alexandria in Stromata, who formed their own "conservative" form of Gnosticism that was much more covert. Rather than the overt "liberal" version that Iraneous warned about. Rightfully so.. but it wasnt the whole picture.
We have seen the overt, but we are about to see the covert. Cycles repeat, and this is sort of the game.
Ah yes calling everything that isn't Pauline theology "neo-Gnosticism" is this new trend among Catholics or, shall I say, "Neo-Catholics" as a way to admonish anyone who sees theology another way. I find it frustrating. Want to talk about materialism yet the entire foundation of Pauline theology is accepting Christ as the only son of man who came, died for our sins, and then rose from the dead to ascend to heaven etc, and if you accept this you will make it to a magical place called heaven where you will have eternal life and live in paradise with all your saved friends and family blah blah blah. Aka Ego, aka Materialism. What he describes as materialism is actually just those who seek to be judged by their works rather than just being judged by their "faith" alone.