"Human Semen Eucharist" Among the Manichaeans?
Starting from his De haeresibus 46,9-10, the present article examines Augustine’s contention that, among the Manichaeans, there was a certain ceremony in which human semen (i.e., sperma and menstrual fluid) was collected and consumed during a eucharistic rite. My contextual analysis of the pivotal p...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Vigiliae Christianae
Year: 2016, Volume: 70, Issue: 2, Pages: 193-216 |
| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BF Gnosticism KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NCF Sexual ethics |
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Augustine
Manichaeism
semen eucharist
Catharists
Gnosticism
Epiphanius
Borborites
Early Christian heresies
Roman Africa
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