Dositheus and Menander were leading pagan exponents of it, and it is debated whether Apelles and Marcion should grouped with its adherents.
Dositheus and Menander were leading pagan exponents of it, and it is debated whether Apelles and Marcion should grouped with its adherents. Cerinthus, Epiphanes and Carpocrates were noted Christian exponents along with Isidore and his father Basilides. Tatian founded the Encratite variety, and the oriental school of Theodotus, Harmonius, and Bardesanes and the Italian school of Ptolemy, Heracleon, and Florinus both stemmed from the school of Valentinus. Most famously represented by Simon Magus, FTP identify the collective name of this group of Pagan and early Christian heresies, famous for their authorship of the Gospel of Thomas, whose name derives from the Greek for "knowledge."
Dositheus and Menander were leading pagan exponents of it, and it is debated whether Apelles and Marcion should grouped with its adherents.
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