Antidicomarians

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The Antidicomarians or Antidicomarianites,

heretical in his Panarion.[4] The existence of the Antidicomarians as an organized sect may be doubted, as it is attested only in Epiphanius, but the doctrines he attributes to them were certainly matters of live debate in the late 4th century.[5]

The Antidicomarians refused to accord any special status to

Marian devotion and celibacy.[6] According to Epiphanius, the Antidicomarians attributed their position to Apollinaris of Laodicea. He wrote a letter defending the majority opinion about Mary to the Christians of Arabia, a copy of which he included in his Panarion.[7]

The view that the brothers of Jesus were the children of Mary and Joseph was held independently of the Antidicomarian sect in the early church: Tertullian, Hegesippus and Helvidius held it,[8] while Origen mentions it.[9] The Antidicomarian position on Mary became standard in Protestantism.[3]

See also

  • Bonosus of Sardica, 4th-century theologian who rejected the perpetual virginity of Mary
  • Collyridianism, a contemporary Arabian sect said to have worshipped Mary

References

Wikisource has the text of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article Antidicomarianites.
  1. Mary
    ", from ἀντίδικος 'adversary' + Μαρία 'Mary' (OED).
  2. Apollinarians
    and the Antidicomarians. See Frank Williams (ed.), The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis: Books II and III. De Fide, 2nd rev. ed. (Brill, 2013), §§77–78.
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8108-7179-3]), p. 31
    .
  4. ^ Petri Luomanen, Recovering Jewish-Christian Sects and Gospels (Brill, 2012), p. 77n.
  5. doi:10.1353/earl.0.0185
  6. ^ Vasiliki Limberis, Divine Heiress: The Virgin Mary and the Making of Christian Constantinople (Routledge, 1994), pp. 119–120.
  7. ^ Frank Williams (ed.), The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis: Books II and III. De Fide, 2nd rev. ed. (Brill, 2013), §§77–78.
  8. ^ Cross, FL, ed. (2005), "Brethren of the Lord", The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, New York: Oxford University Press.
  9. ISBN 9780813200941
    .
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