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Carpocrates
Born
mid-late 1st century
Alexandria, Egypt, Roman Empire
Died
2nd century
Cephalonia, Epirus, Roman Empire
Occupation
Leader of early Gnostic sect at Cephalonia
Spouse
Alexandria of Cephalonia
Children
Epiphanes
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Tradition or movement
Gnosticism
Main interests
Christianity
Notable ideas
Anamnesis, Antinomianism, Archons, the Demiurge, Reincarnation and Christian proto-communism
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Carpocrates of Alexandria (Greek: Καρποκράτης ήταν αλεξανδρινός) was the founder of an early Gnostic sect from the first half of the 2nd century, known as Carpocratians. As with many Gnostic sects, the Carpocratians are known only through the writings of the Church Fathers, principally Irenaeus of Lyons and Clement of Alexandria. As these writers strongly opposed Gnostic doctrine, there is a question of negative bias when using this source. While the various references to the Carpocratians differ in some details, they agree as to the libertinism of the sect, a charge commonly levied by pagans against Christians and conversely by Christians against pagans and heretics.[1]
^Lane Fox, Robin (1986). Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine. London, UK: Penguin. p. 427. ISBN 978-0-14-102295-6.
will". According to Clement, Carpocrates was from Alexandria although his sect was primarily located in Cephallenia. Carpocrates is again mentioned in the...
licentious, but he does not associate them with Nicolas: But the followers of Carpocrates and Epiphanes think that wives should be common property. Through them...
advocation of free love, cancelling debt, and freeing slaves derived from Carpocrates' Doctrine of libertinage, the refusal of marriage, the abolition of social...
rather as deliberately practising it. He states that they taught, as did Carpocrates, that salvation could be attained only by passing through all experience...
the number of these angels is reckoned as seven, and of the system of Carpocrates. In Basilides's system, he reports, the world was made by the angels...
The Gospel of Cerinthus is a lost gospel used by Cerinthus and by Carpocrates. According to Epiphanius, this is a Jewish Gospel or Gnostic Gospel identical...
community of Carpocratians, an early Gnostic Christian sect, because Carpocrates lived on the island. In the ancient period, the people lived in four...
starts to rule in the Kushan Empire (approximate date). The philosopher Carpocrates rejects ownership of private property as being un-Christian. Zheng Xuan...
and saint (d. 202) October 30 – Antinous, lover of Hadrian (b. 111) Carpocrates, religious philosopher Juvenal, Roman poet and satirist Marinus of Tyre...
identified by Ireneus with the further development of his predecessors ideas. Carpocrates practised in the tradition of Basildes, and his own follower, Marcellina...
heretics as Basilides and his disciple Saturnilus, Marcion of Sinope, and Carpocrates of Alexandria, among others. These heresiarchs all held varying opinions...
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that it contained no such words. Clement accuses the heterodox teacher Carpocrates for having obtained a copy by deceit and then polluted it with "utterly...
renouncing the faith in times of persecution were matters of indifference. Carpocrates is labeled as the first of the Gnostics. His followers allegedly transmitted...
with respect to the Lord are quite similar to those of Cerinthus and Carpocrates. They use Matthew's gospel only, and repudiate the Apostle Paul, maintaining...
condemns the monk's teaching as a heresy, which the author attributes to Carpocrates, Satornilus, and Ebionites. Not all later mentions of the gospel were...
Valentinus, and (if the text is sound) Marcion. Yet his language about Carpocrates a few lines further on suggests a doubt whether he had any better evidence...
politician (d. 182) 130 October 30 – Antinous, lover of Hadrian (b. 111) Carpocrates, religious philosopher Juvenal, Roman poet and satirist Marinus of Tyre...
volume of his history, Travasa talks of Saturninus of Antioch; Basilides; Carpocrates; and Prodicus. Storia critica delle vite degli eresiarchi. Vol. 2. Part...
starts to rule in the Kushan Empire (approximate date). The philosopher Carpocrates rejects ownership of private property as being un-Christian. Emperor...
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