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16-September-2008 16:15:15 - Adamites Adamites being rounded up by men with guns Adamites being rounded up by men with guns 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. Contents 1 Ancient Adamites 2 Neo-Adamites 3 See also 4 Sources and references 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. Theodoret Haer. Fab., I, 6 held this view of them, and identified them with the licentious sects whose practices are described by Clement of Alexandria. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Jan Žižka, the Hussite leader, nearly exterminated the sect in 1421 cf. 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. 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. See also Adamskostuum Christian naturism Taborite Sources and references This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. 1 This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh ion, a publication now in the public domain. Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Adamites Categories: Nudity | Communism | Christian communities Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page Languages БългарÑ?ки ÄŒesky Deutsch Eesti Español Français Italiano Polski РуÑ?Ñ?кий СрпÑ?ки / Srpski Suomi This page was last modified on 13 June 2008, at 17:21
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