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Encratite
Encratite (ˈɛnkrətaɪt) Chiefly in pl. [ad. late L. encratīta, late Gr. ἐγκρατῑ́της (Hippolytus), f. ἐγκρατ-ής continent + -ῑτης: see -ite.] One of those early Christian heretics (chiefly Gnostic) that abstained from flesh, from wine, and from marriage. Also attrib.1587 T. Rogers 39 Art. (1621) 295 T...
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Dülük
decreto of Patriarch Gennadius I of Constantinople against simony
Philoxenus, a nephew of the celebrated Philoxenus of Hierapolis, deposed as a Severian Encratite
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Severian
Severian (sɪˈvɪərɪən) [ad. L. Sevēriān-ī (pl.), f. the name Sevērus (see below) + -ian.] 1. A member of an Encratite or Gnostic sect of the 2nd century which condemned marriage, etc. ‘It may reasonably be doubted whether there really was an Encratite teacher named Severus, or whether sects did not m...
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Severus
Claudius Severus, leader of the Helvetii in 69
Cornelius Severus, Roman epic poet in Augustan age
Sextus Julius Severus, 2nd-century Roman general
Severus (Encratite
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Origenist crises
Jerusalem, again asking for Origen to be condemned, insisting that Origen's writings denigrated human sexual reproduction and accusing him of having been an Encratite
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continent
▪ I. continent, a. (ˈkɒntɪnənt) Also 4 conteynent, 4–6 contynent. [a. OF. continent 12th c. in Littré, in our sense 1), ad. L. continēnt-em lit. ‘holding together’, hence ‘contiguous, connected, continuous’, also ‘holding oneself in, self-restraining, restraining one's passions’ (the latter the sens...
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Tatian
"Driving Aphrodite from the World: Tatian and His Encratite Argument," in Eadem, The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek
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Acts of Philip
Due to this, the Acts have been proposed to be an Encratite text with Gnostic influences, with Mariamne's clothing reaffirming her resistance against the
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Acts of Thomas
The surviving Syriac manuscripts, however, have been edited to purge them of the most unorthodox overtly Encratite passages, so that the Greek versions
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Marriage in the Catholic Church
This permanent 'encratite' tendency was given powerful impetus in the debates about Christian perfection at the end of the fourth and the beginning of
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