{"id":498238,"date":"2026-06-22T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/esoteric-christianity-wikipedia\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:10:00","slug":"esoteric-christianity-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/esoteric-christianity-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Esoteric Christianity &#8211; Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esoteric Christianity is a mystical approach to Christianity which features &#8220;secret traditions&#8221; that require an initiation to learn or understand. [1][2] The term esoteric was coined in the 17th century and derives from the Greek \u1f10\u03c3\u03c9\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 (es\u014dterikos, &#8220;inner&#8221;). It stands in contrast to exoteric (\u1f10\u03be\u03c9\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2, ex\u014dterikos, &#8220;outer&#8221; or &#8220;public&#8221;), a distinction already noted &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Esoteric_Christianity\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Esoteric_Christianity<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esoteric Christianity is a mystical approach to Christianity which features &#8220;secret traditions&#8221; that require an initiation to learn or understand. [1][2] The term esoteric was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kunsthaus-zurich-en","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}