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- noun Plural form of
Petrobrusian .
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He had gathered enough of a following by the early 1130s that Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny, was moved to write a lengthy letter opposing his tenets shortly before the heresiarch was killed by offended Catholics, circa 1132.6 The abbot of Cluny devoted the lengthy first part of his polemic to a defense of infant baptism, a practice attacked by the heretic Peter and his followers, known as the Petrobrusians, on the grounds that the child could not believe through his own faith but, as was said, only through the faith of another.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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The reference, early in the quotation, to the disciples being corrected by their teacher implied that they might have learned their lesson; so too could the Petrobrusians learn not to ensure the consignment of children to hell. 105 In the end, the heretics must learn, as Peter's and Eckbert's readers do, that to oppose infant baptism is to oppose the kindness, the pietas, the very words and actions of Christ.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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The mid-twelfth century witnessed the emergence not simply of the personality-based heresies of the Petrobrusians and Henricians but of a well-organized heretical church opposed to Rome and thought to be of eastern origins, the sect soon to be called Cathars. 11 A German prior from Steinfeld wrote to Bernard of Clairvaux, describing a highly ascetic and dualist sect that rejected the material world and claimed to represent the true Church.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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The idea was echoed by Peter in his attack on the Petrobrusians. 34 Their lack of discretion, their inability to distinguish right from wrong, and their inability to deceive or defraud (doli non capaces) precluded infants from committing actual sins.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Followers of Peter of Bruys and Henry of Lausanne, for example, were known respectively as the Petrobrusians and Henricians, after their leaders.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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On Peter of Bruys and the Petrobrusians, see Jean Leclercq, Pierre le Vénérable, Figures monastiques (Paris, 1946), app.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Crosses, as the instrument of the death of Christ, cannot deserve veneration; hence they were for the Petrobrusians objects of desecration and were destroyed in bonfires.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Petrobrusians 'teaching about 1135 and spread it in a modified form after its author's death.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Peter the Venerable against the Petrobrusians and from a passage in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The council likewise condemned the errors of the Petrobrusians and the Henricians, the followers of two active and dangerous heretics, Peter of Bruys and Arnold of Brescia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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