- 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...
- however, have been
edited to
purge them of the most
unorthodox overtly Encratite p****ages, so that the Gr****
versions reflect the
earlier tradition. Fragments...
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maintenance of a
sober lifestyle. An
early Christian sect
known as the
Encratites,
first recorded by the Gr****
Bishop Irenaeus,
created their religious...
- 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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Adamites (also
called Adamians)
Marcellianas Cleobians Docetae Elcesaites Encratites Apotactics (also
called Apostolics)
Severians Marcosians Messalians Nicolaism...
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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...
- Salamis,
Cyprus at the end of the 4th century,
reports that
Severian Encratites (also ****ociated with Sethians)
believed Sabaoth and
Ialdabaoth to be...
- ISBNÂ 9780199928033. Gero,
Stephen (1986). "With
Walter Bauer on the Tigris:
Encratite Orthodoxy and
Libertine Heresy in Syro-Mesopotamian Christianity," in...
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remained a
significant center. ****ual
abstinence such as
those of the
Encratites sect of
Christians was only one
aspect of
ascetic renunciation, and both...