Entry Topical Term

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER

• control field: 115052

003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER

• control field: DLC

005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION

• control field: 20200604175034.0

008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS

• fixed length control field: 860211 | anannbabn |a ana

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER

• LC control number: sh 85055466

040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE

• Original cataloging agency: DLC
• Transcribing agency: DLC
• Modifying agency: DLC

053 #0 - LC CLASSIFICATION NUMBER

• Classification number element--single number or beginning number of span: B638
• Explanatory term: Philosophy

053 #0 - LC CLASSIFICATION NUMBER

• Classification number element--single number or beginning number of span: BT1390
• Explanatory term: Theology

150 ## - HEADING--TOPICAL TERM

• Topical term or geographic name entry element: Gnosticism

550 ## - SEE ALSO FROM TRACING--TOPICAL TERM

• Control subfield: g
• Topical term or geographic name entry element: Cults

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: OED online, Sept. 10, 2019:
• Information found: Gnostic (as a noun: The designation given to certain heretical sects among the early Christians who claimed to have superior knowledge of things spiritual, and interpreted the sacred writings by a mystic philosophy)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Merriam Webster online, Sept. 10, 2019:
• Information found: gnosticism (the thought and practice especially of various cults of late pre-Christian and early Christian centuries distinguished by the conviction that matter is evil and that emancipation comes through gnosis)