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Manichaeism

1. MANICHAEISM

2. MANICHAEISM A Dualistic Religious Movement Founded by Mani, (c.216-76) Founded in Persia in the 3rd century I nfluenced by earlier Gnostics

3. Mani (c.216-76) Born in Southern Babylonia (now in Iraq). Apostle of Light and Supreme Illuminator Passion of the Illuminator or Mani’s “crucifixion Died (between 274 and 277ce).

4. TEACHINGS OF MANICHAEISM S infulness is the natural state of human beings and does not stem from Adam's Fall. T he Manichean God did not create and does not control the forces of darkness

5. SPREAD OF MANICHAEISM Vigorous missionary activity T ranslation of Mani’s writings into other languages Rapidly Spread in the Roman Empire, Egypt and Northern Africa Established churches in Southern Gaul and Spain. Spread to the Eastern Provinces of the Persian Sasanian Empire.

6. SPREAD OF MANICHAEISM In 732, an edict gave the religion freedom for Manicheans to worship in China. S tate Religion of the Uyghur kingdom-Turkey

7. New Manichaeans Paulicians in Armenia Bogomil in Bulgaria, Poblicans in Flanders Cathars in Southern France Priscillianists

8. DECLINATION Defended by the Roman State In Persia, Due to Muslim persecution In Turkey, Mongol Invasion

9. ANTI-MANICHAEISM WRITERS St. Ephraem (306-373) Heracleon of Chalcedon Alexander of Lycopolis Titus of Bostra  (374) St. Epiphanius of Salamis Theodoret of Cyprus (458)

10. ANTI-MANICHAEISM WRITERS Didymus the Blind Heraclian (c. 510) Paul the Persian (c. 529) Zacharias Rhetor (c. 536) St. John Damascene (c. 750) Photius (891)

11. ANTI-MANICHAEISM WRITERS St. Augustine Ambrosiaster

12. MANICHAEISM Mani sought to found a truly ecumenical and universal religion. Jesus, Zoroaster, and Buddha It resembles with Iranian and Indian religions, Christianity, Buddhism, and Taoism.