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List of Gnostic sects

List of Gnostic sects

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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

Unclassified Christian Gnosticism

Others

Middle Ages

Modern era

Neo-Gnostic

Main article: Gnosticism in modern times

Footnotes

  1. [1]
    van Bladel, Kevin (2017). From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes. Leiden: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004339460. ISBN 978-90-04-33943-9.
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    Gündüz, Şinasi (1994). "The Knowledge of Life: The Origins and Early History of the Mandaeans and Their Relation to the Sabians of the Qur'ān and to the Harranians". Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement. 3. Oxford University Press: 5. ISBN 0-19-922193-6. ISSN 0022-4480.
  3. [3]
    The followers of the gnostic Satornilus. See Against Satornilus by Epiphanius
  4. [4]
    See Against the Heracleonites by Epiphanius
  5. [5]
    See Against the Ptolemaeans by Epiphanius
  6. [6]
    See Against the Lucianists by Epiphanius
  7. [7]
    The followers of Menander, who led a schism in Simonianism. See Against Menander by Epiphanius
  8. [8]
    See Abelites - Jewish Encyclopedia
  9. [9]
    See Against the Angelics by Epiphanius for a more detailed description.
  10. [10]
    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 .
  11. [11]
    A gnostic sect mentioned in the Panarion, Against the Nicolaitans, 2,1 They be identified as the Borborites.
  12. [12]
    Another name for the Gnostics according to Epiphanius. It may be a different Gnostic sect altogether. See Proem I, 5,4
  13. [13]
    Blunt. Pg. 109. "Cleobians"
  14. [14]
    See Against the Secundians by Epiphanius
  15. [15]
    Livingstone, Elizabeth A. (2013). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199659623.
  16. [16]
    Wakefield, Walter L.; Evans, Austin P. (1991). Heresies of the High Middle Ages. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 159–173.
  17. [17]
    Conybeare, Frederick. The Key of Truth. A Manual of the Paulician Church of Armenia.
  18. [18]
    Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.
  19. [19]
    See Churchsmsj.org for more information
  20. [20]
    See for more information
  21. [21]
    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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