Bardaisanite

English

Etymology

Bardaisan +‎ -ite

Noun

Bardaisanite (plural Bardaisanites)

1. A follower of Bardaisan; Bardesanist.
   • 1999, G. J. Reinink, Alexander Cornelis Klugkist, A. C. Klugkist, After Bardaisan:

     Because of this condemnation of their ideas, he postulated that "the Bardaisanites did not accept this Epistle in their Apostolos", a statement not without possible significance for discussions of the formation of the Pauline canon in the early Syriac church.

   • 2001, Paul Allan Mirecki, Jason David BeDuhn, The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and Its World:

     But the pro-sexuality and pro-reproduction attitudes of the Bardaisanites, as well as their emphasis on human free will and the importance of living one's life in conscious conformity to the commandments of God, permit the possibility that infant baptism was practiced among them.

   • 2009, Ilaria Ramelli, Bardaisan of Edessa:

     Differently from Adamantius, Marinus, who is presented as a Bardaisanite, in the Dialogue defends a view that in Methodius' De Resurrectione is argued for by Aglaophon, who denies the resurrection of the body.

Adjective

Bardaisanite (comparative more Bardaisanite, superlative most Bardaisanite)

1. Pertaining to Bardaisan or his teachings.
   • 1911, Journal of Biblical Literature - Volume 30, page 168:

     Ephraem, who was engaged in a fierce warfare with the Bardaisanite heretics, probably had not the ability and certainly had no desire to distinguish in the mass of heretical psalms and hymns the compositions of Bardaisan from those of his successors, and so ascribes them all indiscriminately to him.

   • 1982, Nina G. Garsoïan, Thomas F. Mathews, Robert W. Thomson, East of Byzantium: Syria and Armenia in the Formative Period, page 38:

     Not being gnostic in the strict sense, the Bardaisanite doctrine flavors a kindred atmosphere.

   • 1999, Christopher Buck, Paradise and Paradigm:

     Could it be possible that Ephrem took over any of the existing Bardaisanite lyrics as well, reworking them for his own purposes?