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Концептуални аспекти относно Бог и спасението в ученията на гностицизма и богомилството
Conceptual Aspects concerning God and Salvation in the Teachings of Gnosticism and Bogomilism

Author(s): Georgi Belogashev
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Philosophy, Semiology, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy, Theology and Religion, Comparative Studies of Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion, Psychology of Religion
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: Gnosticism; Godliness; Christianity; God; heresy; salvation

Summary/Abstract: Article aims, through a comparative analysis, to explicate the Gnostic and Bogomil religious-philosophical conceptual grounds for the possibility of acquiring knowledge saving man from the dualism of being. The tasks of the study are to indicate the reasons for the search for such knowledge, which provides a form of human existence that will lead man to salvation. To achieve the tasks, the study begins by establishing the connections of Gnosticism and Bogomilism with historically preceding spiritual-religious communities and their concepts, the relations with Christianity and the grounds for their designation as Christian heresies are indicated, the conceptual parallels between Gnosticism and Bogomilism in their cosmological understandings are indicated and their consequences for man, the way out is indicated, which overcomes the unnatural state of being and the subsequent opportunity available to man for union with God.

  • Issue Year: 31/2022
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 316-334
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bulgarian