Church through the Middle Ages #7
Grandview Nazarene Church
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Grandview Nazarene Church
500 N Elm St, Grandview, WA 98930, USA
Sunday 10:30 AM
Cathari (pure ones)
This movement of dissenting voices originated in the town of Albi in southern France so some people called them Albigenses.
Cathari likely infiltrated into Europe from Bulgaria where one of their chief branches was called Bogomiles.
Cathari is very similar to Gnosticism in that it divides the human from the spirit and calls the human evil and the spirit pure.
Catharine claims that Christ was not in human form because to be human is to be evil.
In order to escape from the influence of evil a Cathar was supposed to avoid:
Marriage
Sexual Intercourse
Eating meat
Material possesions
The Cathari posed a real threat to the church because by 1200 they had gained the protection by the princes of Toulouse (a cultural area in southern France) and it continued to spread as a result at an alarming rate.
Dominicans
The church tried to send teachers to influence and turn the problem but these teachers were highly ineffective until a Spaniard named Dominic Guzman (1170-1221) was able to discover why.
He discovered in 1206 that the other preachers were depending on pomp, dignity, high-church rhetoric and ceremony to turn the tide and the Albigenses considered all of these things evidence of false religion.
Dominic when among them as a poor man, barefoot and begging.
Dominic was absolutely convinced that he was going to be successful in communicating the message of the gospel to the Albigenses (Cathari) and called in 1220 was granted official approval for his order.
Mendicat=begging
Friar=brother (as opposed to "Father")
In addition to sending the teachers, including Dominic, Innocent III called for a crusade against these Chrisitian heretics.
By 1215 the crusade had been very successful though even Innocent was disturbed by the brutality that brought the Albigenses to an end in the region.
Inquisition
The heretics had fled from Toulouse and went into hiding. In 1215 Innocent III provided for the states to:
*punish heretics
*confiscate their property
*excommunicate those who collude with the heretic
*complete forgiveness of sins for those who cooperate
In 1220 the pope took the Inquisition from the hands of the bishops and gave it to the Dominicans. In 1229 the Synod of Toulouse systemized the Inquisition.
the inquisitor was:
*subject to no law but the pope
*He was prosecutor and judge
*The trial was secret
*The accused had to prove his innocence without benefit of counsel or knowledge of his accusers
1252 Innocent IV authorized torture as a means of procuring information and confessions from accused heretics.
Catharism was brought to an end but Waldenese continued to hide out and some of them survived in the mountains of Italy until they were spared by the Reformation.
The Inquisition also survived even with its weaknesses. It could amputate but it could not bring healing---Enter the healer
Giovanni Bernardone aka. St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)
1209 Fransis prpared a "Rule for his brotherhood. Take up the cross of Christ living with the same appeal that the Rich Young Ruler rejected.
Francis went to Pope Innocent III in much the same way that Waldo had before Alexander III but Innocent approved the little preaching band. Francis called his group Friars Minor (lesser brothers), we call them Franciscans
In 1219 Francis joined a crusading expedition for the expressed purpose of converting the Sultan of Egypt. He was unsuccessful but during his time away from the leadership of his brotherhood factions had arisen.
He asked the pope to appoint Cardinal Ugolino as his advisor and soon surrendered the administration of the brotherhood to his associate Peter de Cateneo.
His advisor, later became Pope Gregory IX.
Fransiscans garnered more and more authority.
Francis lived to see his ideal changed, died in 1226 in full humility and the Franciscans were divided into Conventuals, who allowed the church to hold property for Fransiscan use, and the Spirituals who argued that complete poverty was an indispensable not of the true church.
This movement of dissenting voices originated in the town of Albi in southern France so some people called them Albigenses.
Cathari likely infiltrated into Europe from Bulgaria where one of their chief branches was called Bogomiles.
Cathari is very similar to Gnosticism in that it divides the human from the spirit and calls the human evil and the spirit pure.
Catharine claims that Christ was not in human form because to be human is to be evil.
In order to escape from the influence of evil a Cathar was supposed to avoid:
Marriage
Sexual Intercourse
Eating meat
Material possesions
The Cathari posed a real threat to the church because by 1200 they had gained the protection by the princes of Toulouse (a cultural area in southern France) and it continued to spread as a result at an alarming rate.
Dominicans
The church tried to send teachers to influence and turn the problem but these teachers were highly ineffective until a Spaniard named Dominic Guzman (1170-1221) was able to discover why.
He discovered in 1206 that the other preachers were depending on pomp, dignity, high-church rhetoric and ceremony to turn the tide and the Albigenses considered all of these things evidence of false religion.
Dominic when among them as a poor man, barefoot and begging.
Dominic was absolutely convinced that he was going to be successful in communicating the message of the gospel to the Albigenses (Cathari) and called in 1220 was granted official approval for his order.
Mendicat=begging
Friar=brother (as opposed to "Father")
In addition to sending the teachers, including Dominic, Innocent III called for a crusade against these Chrisitian heretics.
By 1215 the crusade had been very successful though even Innocent was disturbed by the brutality that brought the Albigenses to an end in the region.
Inquisition
The heretics had fled from Toulouse and went into hiding. In 1215 Innocent III provided for the states to:
*punish heretics
*confiscate their property
*excommunicate those who collude with the heretic
*complete forgiveness of sins for those who cooperate
In 1220 the pope took the Inquisition from the hands of the bishops and gave it to the Dominicans. In 1229 the Synod of Toulouse systemized the Inquisition.
the inquisitor was:
*subject to no law but the pope
*He was prosecutor and judge
*The trial was secret
*The accused had to prove his innocence without benefit of counsel or knowledge of his accusers
1252 Innocent IV authorized torture as a means of procuring information and confessions from accused heretics.
Catharism was brought to an end but Waldenese continued to hide out and some of them survived in the mountains of Italy until they were spared by the Reformation.
The Inquisition also survived even with its weaknesses. It could amputate but it could not bring healing---Enter the healer
Giovanni Bernardone aka. St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)
1209 Fransis prpared a "Rule for his brotherhood. Take up the cross of Christ living with the same appeal that the Rich Young Ruler rejected.
Francis went to Pope Innocent III in much the same way that Waldo had before Alexander III but Innocent approved the little preaching band. Francis called his group Friars Minor (lesser brothers), we call them Franciscans
In 1219 Francis joined a crusading expedition for the expressed purpose of converting the Sultan of Egypt. He was unsuccessful but during his time away from the leadership of his brotherhood factions had arisen.
He asked the pope to appoint Cardinal Ugolino as his advisor and soon surrendered the administration of the brotherhood to his associate Peter de Cateneo.
His advisor, later became Pope Gregory IX.
Fransiscans garnered more and more authority.
Francis lived to see his ideal changed, died in 1226 in full humility and the Franciscans were divided into Conventuals, who allowed the church to hold property for Fransiscan use, and the Spirituals who argued that complete poverty was an indispensable not of the true church.