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Cerinthus

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Copyright

Cerinthus (fl. c.100), Gnostic. He is said to have taught that the world was created, not by the supreme God, but either by a Demiurge (a less exalted being) or by angels. Jesus, he held, began His earthly life as a mere man, though at His Baptism ‘the Christ’, a higher Divine power, descended upon Him, but departed before the crucifixion.

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Cerinthus

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Cerinthus , fl. c.AD 100?, Jewish-Christian religious leader, b. Ephesus. He held tenets influenced by Gnosticism and similar to those of the Ebionites. He taught that the Christ descended into Jesus at his baptism and left him again before the Passion.

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Cerinthus

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | | Copyright

Cerinthus. Early Christian heretic. He seems to have been a gnostic of docetic tendencies.

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JOHN BOWKER. "Cerinthus." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

JOHN BOWKER. "Cerinthus." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Cerinthus.html

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