Word: gnostic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unitarian theology. The current issue of the Unitarian Christian Register carries an example of the Parkian unorthodoxy that may be expected to continue coming from his typewriter. Writing on the Apostles' Creed, he claims it is a present day anachronism composed expressly to combat the medieval Gnostic heresy that the world was not created by God, but by a lesser, coarser deity, and that Christ, the Incarnate Word, did not truly live, suffer and die like a man, but only seemed to do so. He calls it a "Bill of Spiritual Rights, claiming for man the privilege of . . . establishing...
...Unborn is a travelogue through the future. Its chief action involves a halfhearted love affair between F. W. and an Astromental girl and the final fierce clash between the retrogrades and the Astromentalists. The nub of Author Werfel's posthumous philosophy lies in his quotation from Valentinus the Gnostic: "There are two fundamental species of angels. The ones helped man from the beginning to make the earth habitable. The others prevented him from doing it. Mankind is still far too immature to be told which of these angels are the good ones and which the bad ones...