- The
Encratites ("self-controlled") were an
ascetic 2nd-century sect of
Christians who
forbade marriage and
counselled abstinence from meat.
Eusebius says...
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Severians were a sect of
gnostic Encratites.
Epiphanius supposes their leader Severus to have
preceded Tatian (founder of
Encratites) but Eusebius, Theodoret...
- Severus, 2nd-century
Roman general Severus (
Encratite),
founder of the
gnostic sect
Severian Encratites Gaius Claudius Severus,
Roman senator and consul...
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Gnosticism in the 2nd century. Tatian, the
founder of the sect
known as the
Encratites,
forbade the use of wine, and his
adherents refused to make use of it...
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denigrated human ****ual
reproduction and
accusing him of
having been an
Encratite. John once
again denied this request. By 395,
Jerome had
allied himself...
-
remained a
significant center. ****ual
abstinence such as
those of the
Encratites sect of
Christians was only one
aspect of
ascetic renunciation, and both...
- however, have been
edited to
purge them of the most
unorthodox overtly Encratite p****ages, so that the Gr****
versions reflect the
earlier tradition. The...
- Semi-Arianism
Audianism Colluthians Collyridianism Ebionites Elcesaites Encratites Apotactics Aquarii Severians Johannines Marcionism Melitians Montanism...
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Hammadi clarified modern understanding of Gnosticism. It is now
considered encratite—a
product of an
ascetical sect of
Christians that
forbade marriage. Prior...
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origin is
probably Syrian, and it
possibly derives from a sect
called the
Encratites,
whose founder, Tatian,
taught that **** and
marriage were
symptoms of...
