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Manicheism

  • a word derived from Manichean.
    Manichean
    noun
    Also Manichee an adherent of the dualistic religious system of Manes, a combination of Gnostic Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and various other elements, with a basic doctrine of a conflict between light and dark, matter being regarded as dark and evil.

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The clever young North African was a teacher of rhetoric who, in his 32 years, had explored such fashionable beliefs as Manicheism and skepticism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Magicians, 50 Manicheism, 162 McGiffert, quoted, 7 Mill, John Stuart, 163 Miracles, 123 f.; of Jesus, 127 f; evidence for, 130 f.; and their logic, 133 Mithraism, 23, 69.

From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Roy Wood Sellars

Finally, during the decline of the empire, it was Babylon again from which emanated Manicheism, the last form of idolatry received in the Latin world.

From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Franz Cumont

He was accused of Manicheism although he anathematized Manes.

From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis) Conway

This Alanus de Insulis, whose treatise against heretics, written about 1200, was published by Masson at Lyons, in 1612, has left, I think, conclusive evidence of the Manicheism of the Albigenses.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

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