Medievalists.net » Humiliati http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Retroactive Heresy: The influence of early Christian heresies on the identification and reaction to heretical sects http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/20/retroactive-heresy-the-influence-of-early-christian-heresies-on-the-identification-and-reaction-to-heretical-sects/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/20/retroactive-heresy-the-influence-of-early-christian-heresies-on-the-identification-and-reaction-to-heretical-sects/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:28:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29415 The medieval Church viewed itself as Defender of the Faith, the destroyer of the unbelievers, the wrong believers. These heretics were to be reviled and feared as perverters of God’s word. The perverters of orthodoxy were, ultimately, not to be distinguished from one another, but rather known by catchphrases.

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