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The discovery of genuine Manichaean texts from sites like Turfan and Tun-huang since the beginning of the century has greatly increased our knowledge of the teaching of Manichaeism and of its amazing geographical spread in pre-Islamic times. This volume brings together the contributions by a leading authority on the subject including a long survey article on the history of the discovery of the texts from Central Asia as well as articles focusing on some of these texts and on the incredible history of adaptation and survival of the sect in China proper. The studies include many Chinese texts on Manichaeism made available for the first time in their original scripts and in translation. The volume also contains the first ever working catalogue of all Manichaean texts (in western as well as oriental languages) published up to 1997.

This is the first general comprehensive introduction to Manichaeism aimed at a non-specialist and undergraduate readership. This study will be a historical and theological introduction to Manichaeism. It will comprise a biographical treatment of the founder Mani, situating his personality, his writings and his ideas within the Aramaic Christian tradition of third century (CE) Mesopotamia. It will provide a historical treatment of the Manichaean church in late antiquity (250-700 CE), detailing the emergence of Manichaeism in the late Roman and Byzantine empires, in addition to examining the continuation of Manichaean traditions in the eastern world (China) up to the thirteenth century and beyond. The book will consider the theology of Mani's system, with the aim of providing a clear-eyed treatment of the cosmogonic, scriptural and ecclesiological ideas forming its foundations. The study will base its analysis on original Manichaean literary sources, together with rehabilitating the representation of Manichaeism in those writings that polemicised against the religion. The study will aim to demonstrate the highly syncretic nature of Manichaeism, and will look to move forward 'traditional' perceptions of the religion as being simply a form of Christian Gnostic Dualism.

This is the first general comprehensive introduction to Manichaeism aimed at a non-specialist and undergraduate readership. This study will be a historical and theological introduction to Manichaeism. It will comprise a biographical treatment of the founder Mani, situating his personality, his writings and his ideas within the Aramaic Christian tradition of third century (CE) Mesopotamia. It will provide a historical treatment of the Manichaean church in late antiquity (250-700 CE), detailing the emergence of Manichaeism in the late Roman and Byzantine empires, in addition to examining the continuation of Manichaean traditions in the eastern world (China) up to the thirteenth century and beyond. The book will consider the theology of Mani's system, with the aim of providing a clear-eyed treatment of the cosmogonic, scriptural and ecclesiological ideas forming its foundations. The study will base its analysis on original Manichaean literary sources, together with rehabilitating the representation of Manichaeism in those writings that polemicised against the religion. The study will aim to demonstrate the highly syncretic nature of Manichaeism, and will look to move forward 'traditional' perceptions of the religion as being simply a form of Christian Gnostic Dualism.

Manichaeism, once the state religion of Persia and long a vigorous contender for converts throughout the ancient Near East, is best remembered for the simplicity of its teachings about divine power. For Manicheans, the universe was ruled by a Lord of Light and a Lord of Darkness, who fought continuously for supremacy. All that was good was a gift from the Lord of Light, and all that was evil was an affliction visited by the Lord of Darkness. This dualism extended to cosmogony and ethics, splitting the universe into a spiritual realm that acted on the goodness of the human soul and a material realm that abetted the evil of the human body. These stark oppositions mask a remarkable degree of doctrinal and liturgical complexity, the details of which have been obscured by centuries of suppression and persecution, first by the Christian church, then by Islam.One of the world's foremost experts on ancient religions, Michel Tardieu examines the fragmentary sources that have come down to us, pieces together the life and teachings of the prophet Mani (the itinerant Persian preacher and founder of this long lost faith), illuminates Manichaeism's ecclesiastical hierarchy and distinctive moral code, and investigates its ideas about the pre-life and afterlife. Manichaeism provides a brilliantly compact survey of what was once one of the world's great faiths, and then became one of its great heresies, surviving now only as a shadowy presence haunting the religions that superseded it.

Manichaeism was founded in Mesopotamia in the 3rd century by a Syro- Persian named Mani. The highly evangelistic Gnostic religion claimed converts including the young Augustine in the Roman Empire and was later seen as the inspiration for Paulicians, Bogomils and Cathars. Spreading across Central Asia as far as China, Manichaeism was a major heresy in the West, and suppressed as a rebel ideology in China. Professor Lieu presents the first full account of its origins and history, its persecution in the Roman and Chinese Empires and its extraordinary survival and diffusion. (1985) Slightly off-mint.

The discovery of genuine Manichaean texts from sites like Turfan and Tun-huang since the beginning of the century has greatly increased our knowledge of the teaching of Manichaeism and of its amazing geographical spread in pre-Islamic times. This volume brings together the contributions by a leading authority on the subject including a long survey article on the history of the discovery of the texts from Central Asia as well as articles focusing on some of these texts and on the incredible history of adaptation and survival of the sect in China proper. The studies include many Chinese texts on Manichaeism made available for the first time in their original scripts and in translation. The volume also contains the first ever working catalogue of all Manichaean texts (in western as well as oriental languages) published up to 1997.

"It is a phenomenological signature motif of Manichaeism that the light mingles with the darkness so the darkness can be overcome and itself transformed to a certain height. This is the ethical premise of Manichaeism: that good binds itself in love with evil, without losing its own being, and through this, evil can be overcome and transformed. In the process of the transformation of evil, humanity will have a prominent role to play." Roland van Vliet.Through relating the story of Mani's life, and the cosmogony of Mani, which begins before Genesis and ends far beyond the Apocalypse, Roland van Vliet sheds light on Manichaeism, the religion that, between the 3rd to 7th centuries spread west throughout the Roman Empire to Spain from the Middle East and Persia and as far east as China where it continued to flourish until the 14th century. With the help of Manichaean texts found during the 20th century, the author argues for the viability of Manichaeism as a world religion within the stream of Christianity. He offers textual evidence to dispute the longstanding theory of docetism associated with Manichaeism, and to promote the theory of gnostic adoptionism: that the cosmic Christ incarnated in the Light Apostle Jesus at the Baptism of Jordan, thus becoming Man, Whose suffering, death and resurrection was the ultimate sacrifice of Love for the benefit of humanity. Roland van Vliet also cites Rudolf Steiner's indications of the importance of the Mani impulse and the Manichaean spiritual stream for the future development of the earth and humankind.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: G. Van den Berg-Onstwedder, The Descent into Hell in one of the Herakleides Psalms, L. Cirillo, L'uomo interiore negli Atti Apocrifi di Andrea e il 'Nous' nella visione di Mani secondo Baraies (CMC 17,7 ss), I. Colditz, Aspects of Social Terminology in the Middle Persian and Parthian Manichaean Texts from Turfan, E. Feldmann, Der junge Augustinus und Paulus. Ein Beitrag zur (manichaischen) Paulus Rezeption, I. Gardner, Personal Letters from the Manichaean Community at Kellis, C. Giuffre Scibona, Alle radici iraniche del Manicheismo. Corpo, creazione e tempo come strumenti di salvezza, C. Glasse, Crypto-Manicheism in the Abbasid Empire, J. Helderman, Die Bundeslade. Ihr Geschichte als eine Metapher in der Umwelt der Manichaer, A. Hoffman, Verfalschung der Jesus-Tradition. Neutestamentliche Texte in der manichaisch-augustinischen Kontroverse, F.S. Jones, The Astrological Trajectory in Ancient Syriac-Speaking Christianity (Elchasai, Bardaisan and Mani), W. Klein, War Mani Priester der Perserkirche?, S.N.C. Lieu, Manichaeism in Early Byzantium: Some Observations, J. Van Oort, Manichaeism and Anti-Manichaeism in Augustine's Confessiones, A. Panaino, Visione della volta celeste e astrologia nel Manicheismo, C. Reck, Some Remarks on the Monday and Bema Hymns of the German Turfan Collection, J. Ries, Baraies le Didascale dans le Codex Mani. Nature, structure et valeur de son temoignage sur Mani et sa doctrine, P.O. Skjaerv Counter-Manichaean Elements in Kerdir's Inscriptions. Irano-Manichaica II, W. Sundermann, How Zoroastrian is Mani's Dualism?, A. Van Tongerloo, Manichaean Female Divinities, J. Tubach, Die Namen von Manis Jungern und ihre Herkunft, P. Zieme, A Turkish Text on Manichaean Cosmogony.

Manichaeism was founded in Mesopotamia in the 3rd century by a Syro- Persian named Mani. The highly evangelistic Gnostic religion claimed converts including the young Augustine in the Roman Empire and was later seen as the inspiration for Paulicians, Bogomils and Cathars. Spreading across Central Asia as far as China, Manichaeism was a major heresy in the West, and suppressed as a rebel ideology in China. Professor Lieu presents the first full account of its origins and history, its persecution in the Roman and Chinese Empires and its extraordinary survival and diffusion. (1985) Slightly off-mint.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: G. Van den Berg-Onstwedder, The Descent into Hell in one of the Herakleides Psalms, L. Cirillo, L'uomo interiore negli Atti Apocrifi di Andrea e il 'Nous' nella visione di Mani secondo Baraies (CMC 17,7 ss), I. Colditz, Aspects of Social Terminology in the Middle Persian and Parthian Manichaean Texts from Turfan, E. Feldmann, Der junge Augustinus und Paulus. Ein Beitrag zur (manichaischen) Paulus Rezeption, I. Gardner, Personal Letters from the Manichaean Community at Kellis, C. Giuffre Scibona, Alle radici iraniche del Manicheismo. Corpo, creazione e tempo come strumenti di salvezza, C. Glasse, Crypto-Manicheism in the Abbasid Empire, J. Helderman, Die Bundeslade. Ihr Geschichte als eine Metapher in der Umwelt der Manichaer, A. Hoffman, Verfalschung der Jesus-Tradition. Neutestamentliche Texte in der manichaisch-augustinischen Kontroverse, F.S. Jones, The Astrological Trajectory in Ancient Syriac-Speaking Christianity (Elchasai, Bardaisan and Mani), W. Klein, War Mani Priester der Perserkirche?, S.N.C. Lieu, Manichaeism in Early Byzantium: Some Observations, J. Van Oort, Manichaeism and Anti-Manichaeism in Augustine's Confessiones, A. Panaino, Visione della volta celeste e astrologia nel Manicheismo, C. Reck, Some Remarks on the Monday and Bema Hymns of the German Turfan Collection, J. Ries, Baraies le Didascale dans le Codex Mani. Nature, structure et valeur de son temoignage sur Mani et sa doctrine, P.O. Skjaerv Counter-Manichaean Elements in Kerdir's Inscriptions. Irano-Manichaica II, W. Sundermann, How Zoroastrian is Mani's Dualism?, A. Van Tongerloo, Manichaean Female Divinities, J. Tubach, Die Namen von Manis Jungern und ihre Herkunft, P. Zieme, A Turkish Text on Manichaean Cosmogony.

Manichaeism, once the state religion of Persia and long a vigorous contender for converts throughout the ancient Near East, is best remembered for the simplicity of its teachings about divine power. For Manicheans, the universe was ruled by a Lord of Light and a Lord of Darkness, who fought continuously for supremacy. All that was good was a gift from the Lord of Light, and all that was evil was an affliction visited by the Lord of Darkness. This dualism extended to cosmogony and ethics, splitting the universe into a spiritual realm that acted on the goodness of the human soul and a material realm that abetted the evil of the human body. These stark oppositions mask a remarkable degree of doctrinal and liturgical complexity, the details of which have been obscured by centuries of suppression and persecution, first by the Christian church, then by Islam.One of the world's foremost experts on ancient religions, Michel Tardieu examines the fragmentary sources that have come down to us, pieces together the life and teachings of the prophet Mani (the itinerant Persian preacher and founder of this long lost faith), illuminates Manichaeism's ecclesiastical hierarchy and distinctive moral code, and investigates its ideas about the pre-life and afterlife. Manichaeism provides a brilliantly compact survey of what was once one of the world's great faiths, and then became one of its great heresies, surviving now only as a shadowy presence haunting the religions that superseded it.

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"New Light on Manichaeism" provides the latest discoveries and insights into the Manichaean religion throughout its more than one thousand year history, ranging from glimpses into the life and thought of Mani himself, to developments in doctrine and practice in the religion's North African, Iranian, Central Asian, and Chinese settings. The volume includes contributions from the leading scholars in the field, offering new reconstructions of Manichaean literary and artistic productions, and innovative analyses of the religious, social, and political dynamics that shaped the rise and fall of this world religion.

"New Light on Manichaeism" provides the latest discoveries and insights into the Manichaean religion throughout its more than one thousand year history, ranging from glimpses into the life and thought of Mani himself, to developments in doctrine and practice in the religion's North African, Iranian, Central Asian, and Chinese settings. The volume includes contributions from the leading scholars in the field, offering new reconstructions of Manichaean literary and artistic productions, and innovative analyses of the religious, social, and political dynamics that shaped the rise and fall of this world religion.

Mani, a third-century preacher, healer and public sage from Sasanian Mesopotamia, lived at a pivotal time and place in the development of the major religions. He frequented the courts of the Persian Empire, debating with rivals from the Judaeo-Christian tradition, philosophers and gnostics, Zoroastrians from Iran and Buddhists from India. The community he founded spread from north Africa to south China and lasted for over a thousand years. Yet the genuine biography of its founder, his life and thought, was in good part lost until a series of spectacular discoveries have begun to transform our knowledge of Mani's crucial role in the spread of religious ideas and practices along the trade-routes of Eurasia. This book utilises the latest historical and textual research to examine how Mani was remembered by his followers, caricatured by his opponents, and has been invented and re-invented according to the vagaries of scholarly fashion.

Mani, a third-century preacher, healer and public sage from Sasanian Mesopotamia, lived at a pivotal time and place in the development of the major religions. He frequented the courts of the Persian Empire, debating with rivals from the Judaeo-Christian tradition, philosophers and gnostics, Zoroastrians from Iran and Buddhists from India. The community he founded spread from north Africa to south China and lasted for over a thousand years. Yet the genuine biography of its founder, his life and thought, was in good part lost until a series of spectacular discoveries have begun to transform our knowledge of Mani's crucial role in the spread of religious ideas and practices along the trade-routes of Eurasia. This book utilises the latest historical and textual research to examine how Mani was remembered by his followers, caricatured by his opponents, and has been invented and re-invented according to the vagaries of scholarly fashion.

The Bogomils: A Study in Balkan Neo-Manichaeism traces the development of this little-understood heresy from its Middle Eastern roots. The Bogomils derived elements of their doctrine and practice from the Manichaeans and the Paulicians. By the reign of Alexius Comnenus, Bogomilism was rife within the Bulgarian and Byzantine empire and had taken hold even amongst influential families in Constantinople itself. Though they suffered persecution, decline and ultimate disappearance in their Balkan heartlands, the Bogomils were subsequently an influence upon more celebrated heresies in France and Italy. Dmitri Obolensky's magisterial study of Balkan dualism remains the definitive work on Bogomilism.

612 pages. Very minor crease to card at head of spine (all very minor). A very clean (almost new condition) hardback. Mani and Augustine Collected Essays on Mani, Manichaeism and Augustine (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 97)

Reconstructing Manichaeism from scraps of ancient texts and the ungenerous polemic of its enemies (such as the ex-Manichaean Augustine of Hippo), BeDuhn reveals for the first time the religion as it was actually practiced. He describes the Manichaeans' daily ritual meal, their stringent disciplinary codes (intended to prevent humans from harming plants and animals), and their secretive religious procedures designed to transform the cosmos and bring about the salvation of all living beings. Overturning long-held assumptions about Manichaean dualism, asceticism, spirituality, and the pursuit of salvation, The Manichaean Body changes completely how we look at this ancient religion and the environment in which Christianity arose. BeDuhn's conclusions revolutionize our understanding of the Manichaeans, clearly distinguishing them from Gnostics and other early Christian heretics and revealing them to be practitioners of a unique world religion.

Mani, the founder of the spiritual movement that has come to be called "Manichaeism," established an influential teaching that spread swiftly across Asia, Africa, and parts of Europe, but was later brutally suppressed. Little was known about this "Gnostic" religion until archaeological findings in the twentieth century revealed important aspects of Mani's biography and philosophical thought.Many years before those physical discoveries, Rudolf Steiner provided key esoteric insights based on his personal spiritual-scientific research, into Mani's life and work. Richard Seddon assembles pieces of the academic and esoteric puzzle, offering a lively and colorful picture of Mani and Manichaeism. He gives a succinct outline of Mani's life, the fundamental aspects of his teachings, and a description of the future spiritual role of Manichaeism. Seddon creates an image of a great Christian initiate leading a movement with the critical task of transforming and ultimately redeeming evil.