Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages 1000–1200
Heinrich Fichtenau
Number of quotes: 15
Book ID: 107 Page: 15
Section: 3G
Opinions had always differed about reading the pagan classics. Rigorists considered them harmful, many others found them useful, and some praised them effusively, above all during the so-called Carolingian Renaissance. In those days a priest from Mainz declared that Cicero, Virgil, and other writers had ascended to heaven after Christ freed them from Limbo.
Quote ID: 2607
Time Periods: 016
Book ID: 107 Page: 15
Section: 3G
…the classical authors attained the stature of theological authorities, like the fathers of the church or even the Bible.
Quote ID: 2608
Time Periods: 016
Book ID: 107 Page: 24
Section: 2D3B
This is not from the Bible, but according to a report by a Greek author, this tenet reflects the Bogomil viewpoint.{61} Elsewhere Gerard spoke of the false belief that legitimate lawful marriages, that is, those celebrated in the church, were to be avoided.{62}
Quote ID: 2609
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 107 Page: 25
Section: 2D3B
Between 1043 and 1048 Bishop Roger II of Châlons wrote to Wazo, bishop of liѐge,{66} that in one part of his diocese there were peasants who adhered to the perverse beliefs of the Manichaeans, committed obscene acts at secret meetings, and purportedly conveyed the Holy Spirit through the superstitions imposition of hands.….
Once converted by these heretics, simple people were transformed into orators surpassing the Catholics in ability.
Quote ID: 2610
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 107 Page: 26
Section: 2D3B
The earliest evidence for the baptism of the Holy Spirit among the Bogomils dates to around the middle of the century in western Anatolia,{69}…
Quote ID: 2611
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 107 Page: 28
Section: 2D3B
According to the details of the story, Manichaeans had come to light in Aquitaine and were advising people to disavow the following: baptism, the sign of the cross, the church and the Savior, the veneration of saints, and legitimate marriages, as well as eating meat.
Quote ID: 2612
Time Periods: 3
Book ID: 107 Page: 30
Section: 2D3B
Up to this point we have focused on the heresies of hoi polloi, who were not always taken quite seriously at that time. However, there were at least two other instances of heresy in the eleventh century that involved members of the upper classes. One instance above all must have caused a sensation, for it involved court clerics, including the confessor to the queen of France. The affair was so embarrassing that Helgald of Fleury, biographer of King Robert the Pious, did not even report it.Pastor John’s note: about 1022 in Orleans
Quote ID: 2613
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 107 Page: 32
Section: 3A2A
If Stephen and Lisoius willingly taught the Norman knight Aréfast about their unorthodox beliefs, they would have done likewise with the queen—and what about with the king? At stake was the reputation of Robert “the Pious.” Hence, the heretics were also condemned to death by burning, something totally unheard of at the time. Marked for execution, they were taken outside of the city to a “tent” built of wood and there burned to death.This is the earliest auto-da-fé in the West for which we have solid evidence.
Pastor John’s note: about 1022
Quote ID: 2614
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 107 Page: 37
Section: 2D3B
Of prime importance is a personal religious experience, a “doctrine transmitted by the Holy Spirit,” revealed only to one pure in mind or spirit.{125} “The eyes of his pure spirit” are opened up “to the light of true belief” through the laying-on of hands by several sectarians; he is purified of all sin and filled with the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, so they said, reveals to him all the profundities of the Holy Scriptures and their true divinity.Pastor John’s note: about 1022
Quote ID: 2615
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 107 Page: 38/39
Section: 2D3B
Faith is not based on heresay or on readings from the Holy Scriptures, but on the inner revelation to a Pentecostal congregation, which is how the clergymen in Orléans saw themselves.….
The heretics asserted that the laying-on of hands in the ordination of priests and bishops was invalid because those who conferred it, unlike the members of the sect, did not possess the Holy Spirit.
Pastor John’s note: about 1022
Quote ID: 2616
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 107 Page: 39
Section: 2D3B
…we can only speculate that these people, or at least some of them, had lost their faith in the mysteries, sacraments, and authority of the church and that they now attained something they regarded as a higher form of Christianity.
Quote ID: 2617
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 107 Page: 41
Section: 2D3B
According to the testimony of Andreas of Fleury, only members of the clergy were involved in Orléans.Pastor John’s note: about 1022
Quote ID: 2618
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 107 Page: 57/58
Section: 2D3B
Peter of Bruis was a priest from the Dauphine,{10} probably the parish priest of Bruys, near Rosans (arrondissement Gap, Hautes-Alpes). Around 1112 or 1113 he seems to have embarked upon the itinerant life of a heretic preacher, one that he would maintain for twenty years,…….
He had preached that the crucifix was not to be venerated, but instead, “in revenge for the suffering and death” of the lord, to be “disgraced with every outrage, chopped up with swords, burned in a fire.”{13}
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Thus, there was no real presence in the Eucharist, though there was perhaps a baptism that was considered sacramental, probably in the form of a baptism with water.{16} Prayers or offers on behalf of the dead had no effect—the explanation for this assertion lies in the belief that there is no purgatory, that the dead already dwell in either heaven or hell.
Quote ID: 2619
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 107 Page: 62
Section: 3A2A,2D3B
In 1119 Pope Calixtus II…….
The Second Lateran Council.{29} It reads: “Whosoever under the guise of piety condemns the Eucharist, infant baptism, the priesthood, and religious ordination, as well as legitimate matrimony, we shall banish from the church of God as a heretic.”
Quote ID: 2620
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 107 Page: 73/74
Section: 2D3B
The Bogomils did not recognize a priesthood in the usual sense, and they renounced the conferment of the power to ordain, renouncing likewise the belief that the liturgy dated back to the Apostolic Age: They credited John Chrysostom (patriarch of Constantinople, 398-404) with composing the liturgy.{25}
Quote ID: 2622
Time Periods: 7
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