Sunday, May 01, 2005
Why the Church, Whether Orthodox or Catholic, Doesn't Like These Books.
This constitutes a short reply to the post you can link to by clicking on the headline above.
There existed a small group in the Balkans which spread very far from the region, it was refered to as the 'Bogomil Heresy' 'The Slavonian Heresy' 'The Patrician Heresy' 'The Patarin Heresy' and in France was known as the 'Albigensian Heresy'.
The heresy started in Bulgaria, spread throughout the Balkans and indeed to the rest of Europe.
Many ideas, that Jesus Christ had a wife and that that wife was Mary Magdalene, and some other ideas in these books are really part of this worldview.
The scholarly opinion now is that not that many people in Bosnia-Hercegovina or in Croatia were members of this heresy. This is a controversial question in Balkans history. I haven't made up my own mind on the matter. Some evidence suggests that it was wide-spread, and some suggests that it was not. Perhaps people who believed strongly were few in numbers but there were many more casual adherants who did not fully take on all requirements of this very strict religious group.
The fact of this heresy was why the Inquistion was started and one of the first theatres of operation was in Bosnia itself where the Ban Kulin was tortured, and 150 of his vassals were thrown off a bridge to drown. He recanted only to unrecant once they left.
The interesting thing about the heresy is that it lasted so long and spread throughout Europe.
Some believe this was the first true Protestant movement.
Because the DaVinci Code and The Last Temptation of Christ show some of these veiws, they have been opposed.
I maintain that 'The Passion of the Christ' is equally heretical, but in a different direction, one which is somehow more 'acceptable'. (not to me! to the powers that be)
One thing about the heresy known as Bogomilism is that it had a tendanacy to decentralize power. That was not allowed in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Everything was about centralized power then.
I think the lack of centralized power may have skewed the records of their actual numbers a bit too.
Much of how the Church whether the Catholic Church or the Orthodox Church, is structured still has to do with who reports to whom.
The real opposition to Liberation Theology has to do with this. I can't think of movements in the Orthodox Church like that, but that is mostly because I'm not as well informed on it. There may be such movements or there might not be.
All I know is that power is pretty centralized in Catholicism and anything that opposes this centralized power, even if it's a basically good thing, will be put down.
I doubt it's so different in the Ortodox Church.
There existed a small group in the Balkans which spread very far from the region, it was refered to as the 'Bogomil Heresy' 'The Slavonian Heresy' 'The Patrician Heresy' 'The Patarin Heresy' and in France was known as the 'Albigensian Heresy'.
The heresy started in Bulgaria, spread throughout the Balkans and indeed to the rest of Europe.
Many ideas, that Jesus Christ had a wife and that that wife was Mary Magdalene, and some other ideas in these books are really part of this worldview.
The scholarly opinion now is that not that many people in Bosnia-Hercegovina or in Croatia were members of this heresy. This is a controversial question in Balkans history. I haven't made up my own mind on the matter. Some evidence suggests that it was wide-spread, and some suggests that it was not. Perhaps people who believed strongly were few in numbers but there were many more casual adherants who did not fully take on all requirements of this very strict religious group.
The fact of this heresy was why the Inquistion was started and one of the first theatres of operation was in Bosnia itself where the Ban Kulin was tortured, and 150 of his vassals were thrown off a bridge to drown. He recanted only to unrecant once they left.
The interesting thing about the heresy is that it lasted so long and spread throughout Europe.
Some believe this was the first true Protestant movement.
Because the DaVinci Code and The Last Temptation of Christ show some of these veiws, they have been opposed.
I maintain that 'The Passion of the Christ' is equally heretical, but in a different direction, one which is somehow more 'acceptable'. (not to me! to the powers that be)
One thing about the heresy known as Bogomilism is that it had a tendanacy to decentralize power. That was not allowed in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Everything was about centralized power then.
I think the lack of centralized power may have skewed the records of their actual numbers a bit too.
Much of how the Church whether the Catholic Church or the Orthodox Church, is structured still has to do with who reports to whom.
The real opposition to Liberation Theology has to do with this. I can't think of movements in the Orthodox Church like that, but that is mostly because I'm not as well informed on it. There may be such movements or there might not be.
All I know is that power is pretty centralized in Catholicism and anything that opposes this centralized power, even if it's a basically good thing, will be put down.
I doubt it's so different in the Ortodox Church.
# posted by Katja R. @ 5:41 PM 
