List of Gnostic sects
The following is a list of sects involved in Gnosticism:
Ancient
Proto-Gnosticism
Judean-Israelite Gnosticism
Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
Persian Gnosticism
Unclassified Christian Gnosticism
Others
Middle Ages
Modern era
Neo-Gnostic
Footnotes
- ^ van Bladel, Kevin (2017). From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes. Leiden: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004339460. ISBN 978-90-04-33943-9.
- ^ Gündüz, Şinasi (1994). "The Knowledge of Life: The Origins and Early History of the Mandaeans and Their Relation to the Sabians of the Qur'ān and to the Harranians". Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement. 3. Oxford University Press: 5. ISBN 0-19-922193-6. ISSN 0022-4480.
- ^ The followers of the gnostic Satornilus. See Against Satornilus by Epiphanius
- ^ See Against the Heracleonites by Epiphanius
- ^ See Against the Ptolemaeans by Epiphanius
- ^ See Against the Lucianists by Epiphanius
- ^ The followers of Menander, who led a schism in Simonianism. See Against Menander by Epiphanius
- ^ See Abelites - Jewish Encyclopedia
- ^ See Against the Angelics by Epiphanius for a more detailed description.
- ^ Apparently another name for the Borborites. Epiphanius also references them as a different sect in the Panarion. He mentions them three times in the book. See here .
- ^ A gnostic sect mentioned in the Panarion, Against the Nicolaitans, 2,1 They be identified as the Borborites.
- ^ Another name for the Gnostics according to Epiphanius. It may be a different Gnostic sect altogether. See Proem I, 5,4
- ^ Blunt. Pg. 109. "Cleobians"
- ^ See Against the Secundians by Epiphanius
- ^ Livingstone, Elizabeth A. (2013). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199659623.
- ^ Wakefield, Walter L.; Evans, Austin P. (1991). Heresies of the High Middle Ages. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 159–173.
- ^ Conybeare, Frederick. The Key of Truth. A Manual of the Paulician Church of Armenia.
- ^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.
- ^ See Churchsmsj.org for more information
- ^ See for more information
- ^ See Essenes.com for more information
References
- Blunt, John Henry. Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought. Rivingtons. 1874.