| 释义 |
‖ gnosis|ˈnəʊsɪs|
pl. (rare) gnoses |ˈnəʊsiːz|.
[a. Gr. γνῶσις investigation, knowledge (in Christian writers esp. a higher knowledge of spiritual things), f. γνω- root of γιγνώσκειν to know.]
A special knowledge of spiritual mysteries. Often with reference to the claim to such knowledge made by the Gnostics: Gnostic philosophy, Gnosticism.
1703S. Parker tr. Eusebius 19 Peter and John..had..receiv'd the Gnosis, or Gift of Knowledge, from him after his Resurrection. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Gnosimachi, They were perfectly averse to all the gnoses of christianity, i.e. to all the science, or technical knowledge thereof. 1854Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2) II. 28 The Gnosis would take its colour from every different locality, from every different thinker. There must be a Syrian Gnosis and an Alexandrian Gnosis [etc.]. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics viii. vii. (1860) II. 76 Behmen and the mystics..essay to pass the ordinary bounds of knowledge and to attain a priviledged gnosis. 1871J. F. Clarke Ten Gt. Relig. (1888) I. vi. §7. 255 The common Christian lives by faith, but the more advanced believer has gnosis, or philosophic insight of Christianity as the eternal law of the soul. 1884D. Hunter tr. Reuss's Hist. Canon iv. 65 Another struck by the mystical and speculative spirit of the Fourth Gospel and recognizing..some colouring of his own gnosis [etc.]. |