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The Medieval Manichee: A Study of the Christian Dualist Heresy

By Steven Runciman

Book information

Year
1982
ISBN
9780511599514, 0521289262, 0521061660, 051159951X, 9780521061667, 9780521289269
LCC
BT1319 .R86 1982
Open Library ID
OL3484630M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5511870 bytes)
Edition
Reissue of 1st Edition
Pages
228\224
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

A reissue of Sir Steven Runciman's classic account of the Dualist heretic tradition in Christianity from its Gnostic origins, through Armenia, Byzantium, and the Balkans to its final flowering in Italy and Southern France. The chief danger that early Christianity had to face came from the heretical Dualist sect founded in the mid-third century AD by the prophet Mani. Within a century of his death Manichaean churches were established from western Mediterranean lands to eastern Turkestan. Though Manichaeism failed in the end to supplant orthodox Christianity, the Church had been badly frightened; and henceforth it gave the hated epithet of 'Manichaean' to the churches of Dualist doctrines that survived into the late Middle Ages.

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