At 12:09 PM 11/17/99 +0000, you wrote:
>At 20:44 16/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks for your comments. This is very interesting material. One question
>it raises is to what the people whom Michael Psellos and others attacked
>called themselves. When, if at all, did people begin again to say 'I am a
>Gnostic'? Or was this just a potent polemical term used by the 'orthodox'?
>
>Ian Tompkins
>
I believe Alexandrian Christians like Clement and Origen used the term for
the highest Christian, one who has delved deeply into Christianity's
mysteries and attained understanding.
Maeve
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