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  • AGNOETEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGNOETES

    or Agnoites, a denomination given to certain ancient heretics, who denied that Christ foreknew the Day of Judgment. The word is Greek, "Agnoetai," formed from "agnoeo," meaning, "I do not know." Eutychius, Patriarch of Alexandria, ascribes this heresy...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ADAMITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADAMITES

    ADAMITES, Adamitae, a sect of ancient heretics who took upon them to imitate the nakedness of Adam; as if man had been reinstated in his original innocence. They assisted in the temples naked and had to do with women in public. Prodicus was their...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APELLITAEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APELLITAE

    Heretics in the Primitive Church, who taught that Christ left his Body dissolved in the Air; and so ascended into Heaven without it. APELLITAE

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AQUARIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AQUARIANS

    AQUARIANS, Aquarii, a kind of Heretics in the third Century, so called from the Latin, aqua, Water; because they used nothing but Water in the Sacrament. See EUCHARIST. It is said the Occasion of the Abuse was owing to the Persecution which prevailed...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APOSTOLOCIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTOLOCI

    called also Apostoni, and Apostites, a Name assumed by two different Sects of Heretics, on account of their pretending to imitate the Manners and Practice of the Apostles. See APOSTLES. The first Apostolics, otherwise called Apostolici and Apostatici,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALBIGENSEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ALBIGENSES

    seems rather one of those pious frauds allowed particularly in that church, which esteems it a kind of merit to blacken heretics. However this be, the Albigenses grew so formidable in a little time, that a Holy League or Crusade was agreed upon among...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Geography

  • APOLLINARISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOLLINARISTS

    Apollinarians, ancient Heretics, who denied that Jesus Christ assumed true Flesh. Apollinaris of Laodicea, their Leader, fancied I know not what strange kind of Flesh, which he supposed to have existed from all Eternity——He distinguished between the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APHTHARTODOCITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APHTHARTODOCITES

    Aphtartodocetae, a Sect of Heretics, sworn Enemies of the Council of Chalcedon. They arose among the Byzantines, and made their first appearance in the Year 535. See MONOPHYSITE. The Word is derived from the Greek ἄφθαρτος, incorruptible, and δοκέω, I...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANTHROPOCOMORPHITEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHROPOCOMORPHITE

    one who attributes to God, the Figure of a Man. See GOD, etc. Anthropomorphites were a Sect of ancient Heretics, who, out of a too great Simplicity, taking everything spoken of God in the Scriptures in a literal Sense, imagined He had real Hands, Feet,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANTIDICOMARIANITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIDICOMARIANITES

    or Antidicomarianites, ancient Heretics, who pretended that the Holy Virgin had not preserved her Virginity, but that she had several Children by Joseph. See VIRGIN. Their Opinion was grounded on some Expressions of our Saviour, wherein he mentioned his...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    Archbishop of Mentz and Legate of Pope Zachary, in the eighth Century, declared a Bishop of that Time, called Virgilius, a Heretic, for maintaining that there was such a thing as Antipodes. But this Piece of History is controverted by the Authors of the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Geography

  • APOCALYPSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCALYPSE

    reject it; and the Council of Laodicea never mentions it in their Canon of the Sacred Writings. Some attributed it to the Heretic Cerinthus; and others, to another John, Disciple of St. John. Dionysius Alexandrinus censures it as written in bad Greek,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
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