The Adamites, also called Adamians, were adherents of an Early Christian group in North Africa in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th centuries. They wore no clothing during their religious services. [1] [2] There were later reports of similar sects in Central Europe during the Late Middle Ages.

2018年11月10日 · In the history of Christianity, at several religious communities have been labeled as Adamites because of their adoption of nudism as a way to imitate the innocence of the biblical Adam and Eve. One group of these Adamite communities was written about by Saint Augustine (c. 354-450), but this ancient group, like other fringe sects of the day ...

2014年8月10日 · These views of Adamites were not necessarily new – in the early centuries of Christianity there was a sect called Adamites and that St. Augustine even mentions they practiced nudism while rejecting marriage. Some of their ideas may have survived into the Middle Ages and helped to establish the theology of these Czech peoples.

The Adamites, sometimes referred to as "Adamians", were a radical religious group that emerged in various periods of church history, often advocating for extreme interpretations of Christian doctrine, particularly around the idea of returning to the innocence of Adam before the fall.

The founder of the Adamite sect is believed to be Prodicus, a Gnostic teacher and a disciple of Carpocrates, known for his radical teachings. The sect’s practices and teachings were considered obscure and controversial, often discussed in the context of opposition to established religious and social orders.

Adamites, an obscure sect, dating perhaps from the second century, which professed to have regained Adam‘s primeval innocence. St. Epiphanius and St. Augustine mention the Adamites by name, and describe their practices. They called their church Paradise; they condemned marriage as foreign to Eden, and they stripped themselves naked while ...

Adamites 1. a sect of heretics in Northern Africa in the second and third centuries. They pretended to the primitive innocence which Adam had before the fall; and, in imitation of his original condition, they appeared naked in their religious assemblies, which they called Paradises.

Epiphanius of Salamis is the first to mention the Adamites, in a list of 60 heresies that “falsely adopted the name of Christ” (Epiph. Anc. 13; written 374 CE). A year later, he describes the sect at greater length (Epiph. Pan. 52).

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.

ADAMITES, or Adamians, a sect of heretics that flourished in North Africa in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. Basing itself probably on a union of certain gnostic and ascetic doctrines, this sect pretended that its members were re-established in Adam's state of original innocency.