Catharism

Readers learn about the Catharism movement focusing on the principles of a Good God and an evil adversary; their tenet of no priests or buildings ultimately led to the Albigensian Crusade.

The Rebel Princess-Judith Koll Healey « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

An associate of the Poor Catholics, Ermengaud of Béziers, wrote the polemic Contra haereticos between 1200 and 1210; it focused on the Cathars but included some material on the Waldenses. 15 Ermengaud's toponymic indicates that he wrote in and/or came from the region closely associated with Catharism and from a city that was infamously sacked by the crusaders not long after the text's composition.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

With the coming of the mendicants and a more coherent Catholic response to Catharism, the polemics became more standardized and programmatic, often well organized and clearly meant for reference during actual debates or inquisitorial procedures.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Catharism spread so quickly that, ten years after the death of Bernard, the monk Eckbert of Schönau wrote a series of sermons against a group of German dualists whom he identified as Cathars. 12 His polemical treatise, remarkable for its emotional, angry, and sometimes ironic rhetorical style reminiscent of Peter the Venerable's letter, contains a considerable amount of material on infant baptism, including an elaborate historical analysis of the salvation of children.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Biès was born in Bordeaux in 1933, in the Southwestern part of France, a region still permeated with the memory of the Occitania civilization and of Catharism.

Introducing Jean Biès Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

It was in response to large popular movements throughout Europe considered apostate or heretical to Christianity, in particular Catharism and Waldensians in southern France and northern Italy.

Think Progress » The United States is “losing the online war against terrorists.” 2006

See Christianity Today and Positive Atheism for details of the heresy of Catharism and its management by the Church.

You can't "Just kill them all"? - The Panda's Thumb 2005

Catharism, at its height, became virtually the state religion of that area, and it was there that the troubadour movement was born and flourished.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

Catharism was virtually the state religion of the Languedoc9.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

Some have tried to argue that Catharism was entirely a local Languedocian product14: this is manifestly untrue, but it did incorporate home-grown material into its theology.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004