: the thought and practice especially of various cults of late pre-Christian and early Christian centuries distinguished by the conviction that matter is evil and that emancipation comes through gnosis
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebIn this sense, the woke dialect is a new kind of gnosticism, separating the elite from the great unwashed. Nate Hochman, National Review, 12 Feb. 2022 In effect, as Del Noce argued throughout his career, Marxism was and is a new form of an old heresy, gnosticism. Francis X. Maier, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022