List of Gnostic sects

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The following is a list of sects involved in Gnosticism:

Contents

Ancient

Proto-Gnosticism

Judean-Israelite Gnosticism

Syrian-Egyptian Gnosticism

Persian Gnosticism

Unclassified Christian Gnosticism

Others

Middle Ages

Modern era

Neo-Gnostic

Footnotes

  1. van Bladel, Kevin (2017). From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes. Leiden: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004339460. ISBN   978-90-04-33943-9.
  2. 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.
  3. The followers of the gnostic Satornilus. See Against Satornilus by Epiphanius
  4. See Against the Heracleonites by Epiphanius
  5. See Against the Ptolemaeans by Epiphanius
  6. See Against the Lucianists by Epiphanius
  7. The followers of Menander, who led a schism in Simonianism. See Against Menander by Epiphanius
  8. See Abelites - Jewish Encyclopedia
  9. See Against the Angelics by Epiphanius for a more detailed description.
  10. 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 .
  11. A gnostic sect mentioned in the Panarion, Against the Nicolaitans, 2,1 They be identified as the Borborites.
  12. Another name for the Gnostics according to Epiphanius. It may be a different Gnostic sect altogether. See Proem I, 5,4
  13. See Against the Secundians by Epiphanius
  14. Blunt (1874), p. 109, "Cleobians".
  15. Livingstone, Elizabeth A. (2013). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780199659623.
  16. Wakefield, Walter L.; Evans, Austin P. (1991). Heresies of the High Middle Ages. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 159–173.
  17. Conybeare, Frederick. The Key of Truth. A Manual of the Paulician Church of Armenia.
  18. Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-515385-5. OCLC   65198443.

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