Tag Archives: Pope Innocent III

heresies for dummies

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Dave

Puritanism, millenarianism, mysticism and rationalism: the four permanent sources of heresy. None of them are necessarily heretical, nor need they be radical. But at certain times and at certain places something has happened to swell these streams of thought into … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arnold of Brecia, Chrisitian Heresies, Christian heretics, Iconoclasm heresy, John Piper, Maurizio Cattelan, MP Witold Tomczak, Peter Abelard, Peter Waldo Waldenes, Poor Men of Lyons, Pope Innocent III, Pope John Paul II, Raymond VI of Toulouse, Simon DeMontfort, the Albigensians, the Donatists, the Paulicians, the Umiliati, Zacheta Gallery Poland | Leave a comment

mercy mercy them: the H word

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Dave

An account of religious heresy. Hardly. No one can match Gottfried Arnold’s Impartial History of the Church and the Heretics. The Lutheran priest published the two volume tome in 1699 to almost universal disdain from within the Church and their … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Albigensian Crusade, Arnaud Amalric, Cathar Crusade, Christian Heresies, Constantine Christianity, Constantine Roman Emperor, Constantine The Great, Duke de Montpensier, Gottfried Arnold, King Henry III, Pope Innocent III, Puritanism, Puritanism Christian heresy, ross douthat, Simon IV de Montfort, St. Bartholomew Day Massacre | Leave a comment

LAST VIBRATIONS

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Dave

As long as the many war campaigns of the twelfth century were conducted on a reasonably friendly footing they brought no intolerable hardship to the people who dwelled in the shadow of the castles. But early in the thirteenth century … Continue reading →