Gnosticism, Gnosticism Rebel Mode On Enlightenment

Gnosticism, as an important movement for spirit reform in the beginning of the Christian era, which acutely revolted to the whole universe and the highest representative of the world, the God. In this dissertation, the writer intended to structure the revolt pattern of the Gnosticism through a carefully reviewing of the main elements in its revolt. The writer believed that the object and the end-result of the Gnostic revolt were identical in nature, which made the Gnostic revolt fall into an inevitable circulate. Furthermore, the concrete behavior of the Gnosticism was also stuck in the mire of the elitism and the Antinomianism. All the above were the chief reasons which explained the decline of Gnosticism. At the end of the dissertation, the writer applied the Gnostic revolt pattern to the study of the Enlightenment and attempted to find the similarities and differences between these two spirit reform movements.