- The
Apotactics or
Apotactites (from the Gr**** apot****omai, to renounce,
because of
their renunciation of
private property) were a
Christian sect in the...
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called Adamians)
Marcellianas Cleobians Docetae Elcesaites Encratites Apotactics (also
called Apostolics)
Severians Marcosians Messalians Nicolaism Ophites...
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various places. They
split up into a
number of
smaller sects of whom the
Apotactics were
remarkable for
their condemnation of
private property, the Hydroparastatæ...
- But it is very
plausible that they were
influenced by
precedent gnostic Apotactics. In
Mauretania and Numidia, the
splinter groups were so
numerous that...
- Theodotians, Elcesaites, Nepotians, Marcionites, Artotyrites, Saccophori,
Apotactics, Encratites, Hydroparastatae, Nicolaitans, Melchisedechites, Pelagians...
