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Paulician
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Pau´li`cian    (pạ´lĭ`shan)
n.1.(Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New.


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As a result, Orchard and Graves uncritically interchanged "Baptists" with a host of disparate dissenting groups including Montanists, Novationists, Paulicians, Bogomils, Albigensians, Waldensians, Lollards, Hussites, and Anabaptists.
Tobias draws on significant primary sources and recent scholarship on the Byzantium of the ninth century to create a new treatment of the contexts and the repercussions of Basil's wars, especially those with the Paulicians, Sicilians, Dalmatians, the Italian states, and peripheral territories.
In the seventh century the quakefish Paulicians saw the temporal world as the shelter of all evil, they wished to worship God directly without Holy Images, without Icons, without priests and without the Eucharist.
 
 
 
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