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Bardaisanite
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English
Etymology
From en Bardaisan ite.
Noun
A follower of Bardaisan; Bardesanist.
en 1999 After Bardaisan G. J. Reinink; Alexander Cornelis Klugkist; A. C. Klugkist Because of this condemnation of their ideas, he postulated that "the Bardaisanites did not accept this Epistle in their Apostolos", a statement not without possible significance for discussions of the formation of the Pauline canon in the early Syriac church.
en 2001 The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and Its World Paul Allan Mirecki; Jason David BeDuhn But the pro-sexuality and pro-reproduction attitudes of the Bardaisanites, as well as their emphasis on human free will and the importance of living one's life in conscious conformity to the commandments of God, permit the possibility that infant baptism was practiced among them.
en 2009 Bardaisan of Edessa Ilaria Ramelli Differently from Adamantius, Marinus, who is presented as a Bardaisanite, in the Dialogue defends a view that in Methodius' De Resurrectione is argued for by Aglaophon, who denies the resurrection of the body.
Adjective
Pertaining to Bardaisan or his teachings.
en 1911 Journal of Biblical Literature - Volume 30 168 Ephraem, who was engaged in a fierce warfare with the Bardaisanite heretics, probably had not the ability and certainly had no desire to distinguish in the mass of heretical psalms and hymns the compositions of Bardaisan from those of his successors, and so ascribes them all indiscriminately to him.
en 1982 East of Byzantium: Syria and Armenia in the Formative Period Nina G. Garsoïan; Thomas F. Mathews; Robert W. Thomson 38 Not being gnostic in the strict sense, the Bardaisanite doctrine flavors a kindred atmosphere.
en 1999 Paradise and Paradigm Christopher Buck Could it be possible that Ephrem took over any of the existing Bardaisanite lyrics as well, reworking them for his own purposes?
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