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The following is a list of sects involved in Gnosticism:
Ancient
Proto-Gnosticism
Judean-Israelite Gnosticism
Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
Persian Gnosticism
- Manichaeism
- Al-Dayhuri's Sect
- Albanenses
- Astati
- Audianism
- Shinang's Sect
Unclassified Christian Gnosticism
- Cerdonians
- Colorbasians
- Dositheans (could be offshoot of Simonianism or proto-Gnostic)
- Justinians
- Simonians
Others
Middle Ages
- Athinganoi
- Bagnolians
- Bogomils[15]
- Bosnian Church
- Cathars[16]
- Black Brotherhood
- Credentes
- Pasagians
- Pataria
- Novgorodians - the owners of the Novgorod Codex; it is likely that the owners of the codex were dualistic like the Bogomils
- Paulicianism (However the dualism of Paulicianism is not certain)[17]
- Picards (Neo-Adamites)
- Tondrakians
Modern era
Neo-Gnostic
- Main page: Religion:Gnosticism in modern times
- ↑ van Bladel, Kevin (2017). From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes. Leiden: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004339460. ISBN 978-90-04-33943-9. https://brill.com/view/title/34389.
- ↑ GÜNDÜZ, ŞINASI. The Knowledge of Life. The Origins and Early History of the Mandaeans and Their Relation to the Sabians of the Qurʾān and to the Harranians. Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester, 1999. P.5
- ↑ The followers of the gnostic Satornilus. See Against Satornilus by Epiphanius
- ↑ See Against the Heracleonites by Epiphanius
- ↑ See Against the Ptolemaeans by Epiphanius
- ↑ See Against the Lucianists by Epiphanius
- ↑ The followers of Menander, who led a schism in Simonianism. See Against Menander by Epiphanius
- ↑ See Abelites - Jewish Encyclopedia
- ↑ See Against the Angelics by Epiphanius for a more detailed description.
- ↑ Apparently another name for the Borborites. Epiphanius also references them as a different sect in the Panarion. He mentions them three times in the book. See here [1].
- ↑ A gnostic sect mentioned in the Panarion, Against the Nicolaitans, 2,1 They be identified as the Borborites.
- ↑ Another name for the Gnostics according to Epiphanius. It may be a different Gnostic sect altogether. See Proem I, 5,4
- ↑ Blunt. Pg. 109. "Cleobians"
- ↑ See Against the Secundians by Epiphanius
- ↑ Livingstone, Elizabeth A. (2013) (in en). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199659623.
- ↑ Wakefield, Walter L.; Evans, Austin P. (1991) (in en). Heresies of the High Middle Ages. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 159–173.
- ↑ Conybeare, Frederick. The Key of Truth. A Manual of the Paulician Church of Armenia.
- ↑ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.
- ↑ See Churchsmsj.org for more information
- ↑ See [2] for more information
- ↑ See Essenes.com for more information
References
- Blunt, John Henry. Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought. Rivingtons. 1874.
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