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Manichaeanism

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Man·i·chae·ism  (mn-kzm) also Man·i·chae·an·ism (-k-nzm)
n.
1. The syncretic, dualistic religious philosophy taught by the Persian prophet Manes, combining elements of Zoroastrian, Christian, and Gnostic thought and opposed by the imperial Roman government, Neo-Platonist philosophers, and orthodox Christians.
2. A dualistic philosophy dividing the world between good and evil principles or regarding matter as intrinsically evil and mind as intrinsically good.
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Noun1.Manichaeanism - a religion founded by Manes in the third century; a synthesis of Zoroastrian dualism between light and dark and Babylonian folklore and Buddhist ethics and superficial elements of Christianity; spread widely in the Roman Empire but had largely died out by 1000
Manichaeism
faith, religion, religious belief - a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality"
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The chief interest of Manichaeanism is that it attracted nine years devotion on the part of the young Augustine before his incipient dissatisfaction with Its intellectual limitations was consolidated by the sermons of Ambrose.
Early heresies in the East: heresy Part I by Baldwin, Barry / Catholic Insight
The central doctrine of Manichaeanism rests on a cosmological dualism: evil and good operate as equally potent forces and the universe serves as a backdrop for the great battle between them.
Hermeticism and the metaphysics of goodness in the Novels of Charles ... by McLaren, Scott / Mythlore
6) Perhaps the version of Gnosticism most familiar to Christian readers is the Manichaeanism with which St.
Harold Bloom: the critic as Gnostic by Young, R.V. / Modern Age
 
 
 
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