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Encyclopedia of Religion entry forBardesanistsThe followers of Bardesanes (A.D. 154-222), a Syrian, who was born at Edessa in Mesopotamia. It has been thought that he was the tutor of Clement of Alexandria. He was the " last of the Gnostics," but developed a system of his own. He tried to explain the origin of evil by assuming two supreme principles, the one good, the other evil, which are co-equal. He asserted that the body of Christ was not real, but celestial, and he would not accept the doctrine of the resurrection of the body. He wrote many hymns which proved a successful means of spreading his teaching. See A. Hilgenfeld, Bardesanes, 1864. citations: Encyc. of Rel., Canney
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