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The Adamites, or Adamians, were adherents of an early Christian sect (considered heretical by the orthodox church) that flourished in North Africa in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th centuries, but knew later revivals. Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings In the Sociology of religion a sect is generally a smaller religious or political group that has broken off from a larger group for example from a Heresy is an introduced change to some system of belief especially a religion that conflicts with the previously established canon of that belief The 2nd century is the period from 101 to 200 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. The 3rd century is the period from 201 to 300 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. As a means of recording the passage of Time, the 4th century (per the Julian calendar and Anno Domini / Common era) was that Century

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Ancient Adamites

The obscure sect, dating probably from the second century, professed to have regained Adam's primeval innocence. Various accounts are given of their origin. Some have thought them to have been an offshoot of the Carpocratian Gnostics, who professed a sensual mysticism and a complete emancipation from the moral law. Carpocrates of Alexandria was the founder of an early Gnostic sect from the first half of the second century Gnosticism (γνώσις gnōsis, Knowledge) refers to a diverse Syncretistic Religious movement consisting of various Belief systems Mysticism (from the Greek grc μυστικός mystikos, an initiate of a Mystery religion) is the pursuit of communion with identity Theodoret (Haer. Theodoret (c 393 &ndash c 457 was an influential author theologian and Christian Bishop of Cyrrhus Syria (423-457 Fab. , I, 6) held this view of them, and identified them with the licentious sects whose practices are described by Clement of Alexandria. Saint Clement of Alexandria (born Titus Flavius Clemens) (c150 - 211/216 was the first notable member of the Church of Alexandria, and one of its most Others, on the contrary, consider them to have been misguided ascetics, who strove to extirpate carnal desires by a return to simpler manners, and by the abolition of marriage. Ascetic redirects here You might also be looking for Acetic acid.

St. Epiphanius and Augustine of Hippo mention the Adamites by name, and describe their practices. They called their church "Paradise", claiming that its members were re-established in Adam and Eve's state of original innocence. Paradise is a word of Persian origin ( Persian: پردیس Pardìs) that is generally identified with the Garden of Eden or with Heaven. Adam (אָדָם ʼĀḏām, "dust man mankind" آدم; Ge'ez: አዳ and Eve (חַוָּה Ḥawwā, "living Accordingly, they practiced "holy nudism", rejected the form of marriage as foreign to Eden, saying it would never have existed but for sin, lived in absolute lawlessness, holding that, whatever they did, their actions could be neither good nor bad and stripped themselves naked while engaged in common worship. Naturism or nudism is a cultural and Political movement advocating and defending social Nudity in private and in public. NOTICE TO WOULD-BE ROMEOS **************

Nothing indicates they were numerous.

Neo-Adamites

Practices similar to those just described appeared in Europe several times in later ages. During the Middle Ages the doctrines of this obscure sect, which did not itself exist long, were revived: in the thirteenth century in the Netherlands by the Brethren and Sisters of the Free Spirit and the Taborites in Bohemia, and, in a grosser form, in the fourteenth by the Beghards in Germany. The Brothers or Brethren of the Free Spirit (Brüder und Schwestern des Freien Geistes was a lay Christian movement which flourished in northern Europe in The Taborites (Czech Táborité, singular Táborita) were members of a religious community considered heretical by the Catholic Church Bohemia (Čechy; Bohemia Czechy is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands, currently the Beghards and Beguines were Roman Catholic lay religious communities active in the 13th and 14th century living in a loose semi- Monastic community Everywhere they met with firm opposition from the mainstream churches.

The Beghards became the Picards of Bohemia, who took possession of an island in the river Nezarka, and lived communally, practicing social and religious nudity, polyamory and rejecting marriage and individual ownership of property. The Picards were a Sect of Neo- Adamites in the sixteenth century and earlier in the Flemish Netherlands and in Bohemia. Nežárka (Naser is a river in South Bohemia, Czech Republic. Jan Žižka, the Hussite leader, nearly exterminated the sect in 1421 (cf. Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha (English John Zizka of Trocnov, German Johann Ziska or Johann Schischka) (c Konstantin von Höfler, Geschichtsquellen Böhmens, I, 414, 431);

A brief revival of these doctrines took place in Bohemia after 1781, owing to the edict of toleration issued by Emperor Joseph II. Heir and co-regent Joseph was born in the midst of the early upheavals of the War of the Austrian Succession. The Austrian government suppressed the last remnants of the Neo-Adamites in Bohemia by force in 1849.

In the Modern Age some English Dissenters practiced the Adamite doctrine. The term modern period or modern era (sometimes also modern times) is the period of history that followed the Middle Ages between c English Dissenters were Christians who separated from the Church of England.

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adamites

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  1. Plural form of adamite.
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