Where the Middle Ages Begin
Both Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism are dualist relig- ions. Implicit in the beliefs held true by these religions is the notion of co-equal and co-eternal principles. Implicit in this notion is the belief that both good and evil exist and are acted upon from the very beginning.
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.
The execution of a number of clerics at Orléans in 1022 is viewed as a watershed moment in the history of heresy in the West.
Time and Eternity in Saint Augustine Costa, Marcos Roberto Nunes Mirabilia 11, Tempo e Eternidade na Idade Média, Jun-Dez (2010) Abstract Every Augustinian disputation regarding to time – eternity relation arises from the need of combating the Manicheans and, by indirection, all those ones that affirmed, asserted world eternity, that denied ex nihilo Jewish – Christian Creation […]
THE ELEVATION OF THE HOST: A REACTION TO TWELFTH CENTURY HERESY GRANT, S.J., GERARD G. (St. Mary’s College, Kansas) Theological Studies Vol.1 (1940) Abstract This essay offers a somewhat novel interpretation of the origin of the major elevation in the Roman liturgy.The question has been gone into rather exhaustively in recent years; several monographs and numerous […]
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