Christianity was already a syncretistic religion in the second century.
The established church it conquered and destroyed; the living syncretistic beliefs it cleansed, simplified, and disciplined, but only absorbed by becoming itself a syncretistic religion.
Footnote 445: This syncretistic Judaism had indeed a significance for the history of the world, not, however, in the history of Christianity, but for the origin of Islam.
We know better, but still very imperfectly, certain forms of thesyncretistic Jewish Christianity, from the Philosoph.
Gnostic or syncretistic Judæo-Christians who are also termed Ebionites.
The Pseudo-Clementines may, to some extent, be used, though with caution, in determining the doctrines of syncretistic Jewish Christianity.
They must be used with great caution even in seeking to determine the tendencies and inner history of syncretistic Jewish Christianity.
From the account of Epiphanius we can see that these syncretistic Judæo-Christian sects were at first strictly ascetic and rejected marriage as well as the eating of flesh, but that they gradually became more lax.
The field was prepared for the formation ofsyncretistic sects.
The Gospel, at the time when it was proclaimed among the Jews, was not only law, but theology, and indeed syncretistic theology.
The following chapters will deal with that hypothesis which makes the religion of Paul essentially a product of the syncretistic pagan religion of the Hellenistic age.
The Earlier Gnostics: Gnosticism in General Gnosticism is a generic name for a vast number of syncretistic religious systems prevalent, especially in the East, both before and after the Christian era.
Manichæanism The last great rival religion to Christianity was Manichæanism, the last of the important syncretistic religions which drew from Persian and allied sources.
This syncretistic theocracy by no means excludes in him [Solomon] the proper service of idols.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols.
We do not mean to intimate, however, that theSyncretistic theory has solved the problem of the relation between free-will and grace.
In this the Syncretisticschool is undoubtedly right.
I die the avowed enemy of all innovation and Syncretistic error!
The Syncretistic Controversy was remarkable on account of the great men who engaged in it and the noble purpose which caused it.
