Basilides
historical figure · 3 works · 14 mentions · 20 anchored passages
Basilides the Paphlagonian · Basilidians · the school of Basilides
spoken of as
1 expressionBasilides the Paphlagonian1 mention
Letters (Greek)
Eustathius, passing through Paphlagonia, overturned the altars of Basilides the Paphlagonian, and ministered at his own tables;
in the texts
Stromata
Early Christian gnostic teacher whose school's doctrine of faith as a natural, elective endowment is reported and criticized.
So those from Basilides define faith as an assent of the soul to something of those things that do not move the perception because they are not present.
And, we being drawn like puppets, after the manner of lifeless things, by natural activities, the voluntary and the involuntary are dragged along, and the impulse that leads these.
Here those about Basilides hold faith to be natural, in which sense they also set it down under the head of election, as finding the studies without demonstration by an intellectual apprehension.
Letters
Figure whose orthodoxy status the accusers treat inconsistently.
if Basilides, who is in communion with Ecdicius, is now orthodox, why, on their return from Dardania, did they overthrow his altars in the territory of the Gangrenes and set up their own tables?
Eustathius, passing through Paphlagonia, overturned the altars of Basilides the Paphlagonian, and ministered at his own tables;
De Carnis Resurrectione
Heretical teacher grouped with Marcion as denying that Christ had true flesh.
And therefore, compelled to dispose of Christ in another way lest He be reckoned the Creator's, they first went astray about His very flesh, contending either that it is no true flesh at all (as Marcion and Basilides hold) or that it is of a peculiar quality (as the heresies of Valentinus and Apelles hold).