Medievalists.net » Manicheans http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 In search of a missing link: The Bogomils and Zoroastrianism http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/13/in-search-of-a-missing-link-the-bogomils-and-zoroastrianism/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/13/in-search-of-a-missing-link-the-bogomils-and-zoroastrianism/#comments Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:55:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38683 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/13/in-search-of-a-missing-link-the-bogomils-and-zoroastrianism/feed/ 0 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/20/retroactive-heresy-the-influence-of-early-christian-heresies-on-the-identification-and-reaction-to-heretical-sects/feed/ 0 Wellsprings of Heresy: Monks, Myth and Making Manichaeans in Orleans and Aquitaine http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/24/wellsprings-of-heresy-monks-myth-and-making-manichaeans-in-orleans-and-aquitaine/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/24/wellsprings-of-heresy-monks-myth-and-making-manichaeans-in-orleans-and-aquitaine/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:57:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23186 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/24/wellsprings-of-heresy-monks-myth-and-making-manichaeans-in-orleans-and-aquitaine/feed/ 0 Time and Eternity in Saint Augustine http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/07/time-and-eternity-in-saint-augustine/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/07/time-and-eternity-in-saint-augustine/#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:54:01 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=14961 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 […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/07/time-and-eternity-in-saint-augustine/feed/ 0 THE ELEVATION OF THE HOST: A REACTION TO TWELFTH CENTURY HERESY http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/02/the-elevation-of-the-host-a-reaction-to-twelfth-century-heresy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/02/the-elevation-of-the-host-a-reaction-to-twelfth-century-heresy/#comments Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:51:50 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=14713 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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