List of Gnostic sects
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The following is a list of sects involved in Gnosticism:
Ancient
[edit]Proto-Gnosticism
[edit]Judean-Israelite Gnosticism
[edit]Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
[edit]Persian Gnosticism
[edit]Unclassified Christian Gnosticism
[edit]- Cerdonians
- Colorbasians
- Dositheans (could be offshoot of Simonianism or proto-Gnostic)
- Justinians
- Simonians
Others
[edit]- Abelonians[8]
- Agapetae
- Alogians
- Angelici[9]
- Antitactae
- Aquarii
- Archontics
- Ascodroutes
- Barbeliotae
- Borborites
- Coddians (also called Koddians) [10]
- Levitics (also called Levitici)[11]
- Phibionites[12]
- Stratiotici
- Cainites
- Carpocratians
- Cerinthians
- Adamites (also called Adamians)
- Marcellianas
- Cleobians[13]
- Docetae
- Elcesaites
- Encratites
- Apotactics (also called Apostolics)
- Severians
- Marcosians
- Messalians
- Nicolaism
- Ophites
- Priscillianism
- Quintillians, Montanist sect that may have come under Gnostic influence
- Secundians[14]
- Seleucians
Middle Ages
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- Athinganoi
- Bagnolians
- Bogomils[15]
- Bosnian Church
- Cathars[16]
- 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]
- Neo-Adamites
- Tondrakians
Modern era
[edit]Neo-Gnostic
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- Angelici Christian Church
- Anthroposophy[citation needed]
- The Church of St Mary & St John[19]
- Ecclesia Gnostica
- Ecclesia Gnostica Apostolica
- Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
- Ecclesia Gnostica Mysteriorum
- Ecclesia Pistis Sophia
- Eglise Gnostique
- Gnostic Society
- Holy Order of Mans (Quasi-Gnostic)[citation needed]
- Johannite Church[citation needed]
- Liberal Catholic Union[20]
- Martinism
- Muckers[citation needed]
- Neo-Luciferian Church
- Order of the Nazorean Essenes (influenced by Gnosticism)[21]
- Rosicrucianism
- Samael Aun Weor
- Society of Novus Spiritus
- Theosophy
- The Gnostic Catholic Union
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ van Bladel, Kevin (2017). From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes. Leiden: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004339460. ISBN 978-90-04-33943-9.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199659623.
- ^ Wakefield, Walter L.; Evans, Austin P. (1991). 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
[edit]- Blunt, John Henry. Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought. Rivingtons. 1874.