GNWSIS Vs EPIGNWSIS

jwest at highland.net jwest at highland.net
Fri Sep 6 06:05:48 EDT 2002


> 
> Specifically:
> 1.  depending on context again, (and given the contrast with "hidden"
> knowledge in Matt 11:27) could the use of the word signal that the writer is
> countering the beliefs of the gnostics?  ie one must go beyond the
> "knowledge" of the gnostics...

it is anachronistic to speak of "gnosticism" as a developed 
philosophical/theological "school" as early as Matthew- hence Matthew isnt 
responding to or arguing against it.


best

jim

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Jim West, ThD
Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies
Quartz Hill School of Theology

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