The religious philosophy or theology associated with Bardaisan, a 2nd-century Syriac Christian philosopher who developed a complex system of dualistic beliefs about free will and cosmic principles.
From Bardaisan (Bardesanes), the Hellenized name of Bar Daisan, a Syriac Christian theologian from the 2nd century, plus the suffix -ism indicating a philosophical system or belief structure.
Bardaisan was one of Christianity's strangest early philosophers—he rejected predestination and argued humans have genuine free will, which made both Orthodox Christians and Gnostics equally furious at him!
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