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Proto-Gnosticism or pre-Gnosticism refers to movements similar to Gnosticism during the first few centuries of Christianity. Proto-Gnostics did not have the same full-fledged theology of the later Gnostics, but did prefigure some of their views.[1][2] There is, however, some debate regarding the existence of proto-Gnosticism in the first century.[3]
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