Esoteric Christianity

Esoteric Christianity is an approach to Christianity which attaches "secret traditions" that require an initiation to learn or understand. a term esoteric was coined in a 17th century in addition to derives from the Greek ἐσωτερικός , "inner".

These spiritual currents share some common features, such(a) as heterodox or heretical Christian theology; the canonical gospels, various ] as well as disciplina arcani, a supposed oral tradition from the Twelve Apostles containing esoteric teachings of Jesus the Christ.

Esoteric Christianity was closely related to gnosticism, and survives in a few modern churches.

Concepts

Influenced by the ] While hypothetically considering a complex multiple-world transmigration scheme in De Principiis, Origen denies reincarnation in unmistakable terms in his have Against Celsus and elsewhere.

Despite this apparent contradiction, most sophisticated esoteric Christian movements refer to Origen's writings along with other Church Fathers and biblical passages to validate these ideas as factor of the esoteric Christian tradition outside of the Gnostic schools, who were later considered heretical in the 3rd century.