Concept

Basilides

Overview

2nd century Christian Gnostic religious teacher based in Alexandria

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Basilides

• Thomas Jay Oord

Related ideas

• Monad (Gnosticism)
• Greek language
• Gnosticism
• Gospel
• Apocryphon of John
• Jerome
• Valentinianism
• Manichaeism
• Nag Hammadi library
• Origen
• Epiphanius of Salamis
• Alexandria
• Tertullian
• Logos
• Valentinus (Gnostic)
• Hippolytus of Rome
• Clement of Alexandria
• Egypt
• Pherecydes of Syros
• Basilidians

Place in the tradition

Part of Gnosticism.

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