Sentence examples for Manichee from inspiring English sources
noun
Alternative form of Manichaean
The snails, the pursuit of two scientists, get locked away behind the fence of a self-destructive community led by a charismatic blood-haunted Manichee.
VII There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine damnationsamnatiOne, One sure, if another fails; If I trip him just a-dying, Sure of heaven as sure can be, Spin him round and send him flying Off to hell, a Manichee?
Though he refers to Mani, the third-century originator of the Manichee sect, he seems chiefly concerned with the Cathars of his day.
As a young man, Augustine followed the teachings of a Christian sect known as the Manichees.
In On the Universe 1.1 he attacks the error of the Manichees.
The Manichees deny God is the ultimate source of all things and instead posit two first principles, one good and one evil.
Augustine insists, against the Manichees, that the God of the Old Testament is the same God as the God of the New Testament.
