Geo Widengren
“Geo Widengren’s Mani and Manichaeism is a good general introduction to the life of Mani (b. 216), the religion he founded and its spread throughout the world and subsequent influence on Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Taoism. The importance of the topic in general is that Manichaeism represents one of many examples of dualistic ideology in the ancient world and that it had a pronounced effect on Augustine of Hippo, a practioner in his youth, and on other theologians of the early Church. It is also relevant to the controversies about the origins of gnosticism, proponents of late genesis theories putting considerable emphasis on it.”
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