Manicheism
- a word derived from Manichean.
Example Sentences
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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
Manicheism is evidently the hinge of every religion; but unhappily, the devil, invented to clear the deity from the suspicion of malice, proves to us, every moment, the impotence or unskilfulness of his celestial adversary.
From Good Sense by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
Otherwise we lapse into Manicheism, pessimism, scepticism, abysses beyond the reach of argument.
From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.
Pauline theology, Augustinianism, and Manicheism have much in common.
From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Sellars, Roy Wood
Manicheism, as it was called, accepted the Christian Bible, or at least some parts of it.
From The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation by Dobschutz, Ernst Von
