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Studies in the Sermon on the Great War: - Investigations of an Manichaean-Coptic Text from the Fourth Century (Hardcover)
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Studies in the Sermon on the Great War: - Investigations of an Manichaean-Coptic Text from the Fourth Century (Hardcover)
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Mani, the founder of the Manichaean religion, was a Babylonian who
lived from AD 216 to 277. His aim was to liberate the human soul
from its enslavement in the world of material and secular reality.
The way to salvation involved the observation of certain
commandments, most of which were concerned with ritual and with
abstinence from sensual pleasures. The Manichees also devoted much
attention to spreading the true faith, and from their home in
Babylon, Manichaen missionaries penetrated as far as Western Europe
and China. Though Manichaeism never became a universal religion, it
survived for more than 1000 years, and its extreme dualism served
as inspiration for other movements on the fringe of the Christian
Church. The Coptic text known as the "Sermon on the Great War" is a
primary source for the philosophy and rituals of the Manichees. The
narrative describes the "great war" in which the Manichees will be
persecuted, the "peaceable kingdom" which will follow, the coming
of Christ and the end of the world.
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