The Demiurge and the Shadow of Monotheism

Gnosticism. Excerpt taken from "The Battle about God: Where do Gnostics stand?" - Dr. Stephan Hoeller. Illustrated.

* Some Gnostics used the term 'Demiurge' (from the Greek dēmiourgos, literally meaning "creator" or "craftsman") to indicate the creator of the material forms, contrasting the uncreated Spiritual substance, because they were quite saturated in Platonic philosophy. They adopted the term in their ways of expressing a specific paradigm in which there is a dualism between the created material forms and the uncreated Spiritual forms. There were other terms used to indicate the creator god, also.

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