First published in 1924, this volume contains the Donnellan
lectures given by Francis Crawford Burkitt (1864-1935) at Trinity
College Dublin in June 1923. Their subject is Manichaeism, a
dualistic form of Christianity that thrived during the fourth and
fifth centuries in Central Asia. Burkitt focuses especially on the
discovery of fragments of Manichaean literary texts in Chinese
Turkestan, near the Siberian border, early in the twentieth
century. The first lecture introduces the history of the Manichees
and reviews the sources of information available about them. The
second discusses the Manichaean view of Jesus, Manichaean church
organisation and Manichaean eschatology. The third analyses the
influences behind Manichaean thought and teaching, including the
important influences of Marcion and Saint Augustine. Burkitt's
lectures were influential in publicising the new finds of
Manichaean manuscript fragments, and remain an important resource
for those studying heterodox movements in early Christianity.
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