List of Gnostic sects

The following is a list of sects involved in Gnosticism:

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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  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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