单词 | manichaeism |
释义 | Manichaeismn. A religious system with Christian, Gnostic, and pagan elements, founded in the 3rd cent. a.d. and widespread in the Roman Empire and Asia until the 5th cent. (surviving until the 13th cent.), based on the supposed primeval conflict between light and darkness, and representing Evil as coeternal with God; (more generally) dualism. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > major early Christian sects > Manichaeism > [noun] Manichaeism1575 Manichaeanism1838 Manichaeanizing1838 Patarenism1854 society > faith > aspects of faith > heresy > [noun] dwildOE misbeliefa1225 heresy?c1225 sect13.. misbelieving1340 irreligion1592 miscredence1603 steal-truth1628 Zendicism1697 pseudo-religion1856 Manichaeism1894 1575 T. Cartwright Second Replie agaynst Dr. Whitgiftes Second Answer p. cxi The sauour off Manichisme is still as hoat as euer yt was. 1583 A. Marten tr. P. M. Vermigli Common Places sig. Aiv When Augustine was conuerted from Manicheisme to the true religion, hee was commanded by the spirit of God, To take vp the booke and read. 1619 Judgment Synode Dort 54 A patched composure of Stoicisme, Manicheisme, Libertinisme, and Turcisme. 1626 D. Featley Parallel sig. Dv This Doctrine bringeth into the Church Manichisme. 1679 T. Puller Moderation Church of Eng. vi. 143 Which doctrine of J. S. is condemned..as the pith of Manicheism. 1727–41 E. Chambers Cycl. at Petrobrussian F. Langlois objects manicheism to the Petrobrussians. 1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. ix. 160 The gloomy and uncomfortable scheme of Scepticism and Manicheism. 1820 Ld. Byron Let. 17 July (1977) VII. 132 I should be glad to know why your Quatering [sic] Reviewers..accuse me of Manicheism? 1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. vi. 97 The Manichaeism which would lead us to think that evil may at last triumph, or hold a divided empire with God. 1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 143 The charge of Manicheism was brought against the promoters of celibacy. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture II. 300 Manichæism..is based on the doctrine of two antagonistic principles of good and evil. 1894 W. Archer Theatr. ‘World’ 1893 224 The time is past for the elementary Manicheism on which The Tempter is based. 1908 A. Lloyd Wheat among Tares iv. 40 The so-called Mantra or Shingon Buddhism—so much resembles Manichaeism that it may be said to be practically the same system. 1956 R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond i. 13 Some of them were thus vanquished by the assaults of manicheeism, others by the innocent theories of Pelagius. 1959 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties (ed. 2) p. xv The elementary Marxist opposition of middle class to working class will also often be used... There are many more shades of social stratification than this rough manicheism suggests. 1986 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. 37 i. 205 That is why Rudolph is entirely right to see Manicheism as the climax of the gnostic enterprise: it is the first deliberately conceived religion. 2006 W. Pearson et al. Mental Floss 11/1 Manichaeism stressed the duality of good and evil and claimed to have successfully synthesized all the world's major religions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1575 |
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