Paulicians
What
did they believe?
1.
They strongly despised the Roman hierarchy.
2.
only one grade of ministry.
3.
Rejected infant baptism.
4.
They taught that thirty was the age for immersion during which ordinance the
Holy Spirit was received.
5.
Repentance was also a sacrament.
A
highly independent Christian sect which arose in the heart of the Eastern
church about A.D. 750. They are frequently interpreted as either "early
Protestants" or "radical oriental dualists," neither view giving
the entire truth. They were the most influential sect of their time, but their
formative force on later reform parties is problematical. Though much maligned
in contemporary polemical literature, they are seen in the ancient Paulician
work, The Key of Truth, translated by F.C. Conybeare in 1898, as a true reform
party.
They
were anti-Romanists, repudiating Mariolatry, intercession of saints, and the
use of relics and images. They strongly despised the Roman hierarchy, having
themselves only one grade of ministry. In rejecting infant baptism they taught
that thirty was the age for immersion during which ordinance the Holy Spirit
was received. Repentance was also a sacrament and the Agape was practiced with
the sacrament of "the body and the blood."
In
Christology they were adoptionists but not docetics, as often thought. They
valued the Pauline writings very highly but made use of other NT and OT books
in The Key of Truth.