How to Use "Gnostic" with Example Sentences

1. The various gnostic sects played an important part in early christianity .

2. The gnostic saviour , therefore , is entirely different from the christian one .

3. In gnostic tradition , sophia plays a very active role in our world .

4. The concept of purgatory in the roman catholic tradition is not unrelated to the purging pattern in gnostic thought .

5. It was only with the rise of christianity , however , that gnostic syncretism came to full expression .