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The Medieval Inquisition: A Study in Religious Persecution
The Medieval Inquisition: A Study in Religious Persecution
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This book was published originally in 1918 in London for, The Rationalist Press Association, Limited.
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text.
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To what extent the spirit of persecutionis sanctioned by the New Testament is not very easy to determine. Giving all due wweight to its gentler precepts, it is unhappily true that passages which reflect more than a tinge of the temper of intolerance are to be found with some frequency in the New Testament, and very many injunctions to extreme severity in the Old. It was inevitable that in rude ages the latter should exert a more potent influence on human conduct than the former, because they harmonize more completely with the existing tendencies of human nature.
Contents:
I The Moral Condition of the Medieval Church
Simony, Clerical Celibacy
II A Crusade Against Christians
Religious Persecution
III The Founding, Constitution, and Practice of the Inquisition
The Inquisitorial Method, Evidence, The Defense, Sentence, Confiscation, Relaxation and the Stake
IV How the Inquisition Overran Europe
The South of France, Northern France, Aragon and Castile, Italy, Bosnia, Germany, Bohemia, The Netherlands, The Spiritual Franciscans
V Miscellaneous Activities
Political Heresy, The Templars, Joan of Arc, Sorcery and Magic, Intellect and Faith, Censorship of Books, The Greek Church, Indulgences and Simony
VI The Gentle Art of Whitewashing
Bibliography
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text.
Excerpt:
To what extent the spirit of persecutionis sanctioned by the New Testament is not very easy to determine. Giving all due wweight to its gentler precepts, it is unhappily true that passages which reflect more than a tinge of the temper of intolerance are to be found with some frequency in the New Testament, and very many injunctions to extreme severity in the Old. It was inevitable that in rude ages the latter should exert a more potent influence on human conduct than the former, because they harmonize more completely with the existing tendencies of human nature.
Contents:
I The Moral Condition of the Medieval Church
Simony, Clerical Celibacy
II A Crusade Against Christians
Religious Persecution
III The Founding, Constitution, and Practice of the Inquisition
The Inquisitorial Method, Evidence, The Defense, Sentence, Confiscation, Relaxation and the Stake
IV How the Inquisition Overran Europe
The South of France, Northern France, Aragon and Castile, Italy, Bosnia, Germany, Bohemia, The Netherlands, The Spiritual Franciscans
V Miscellaneous Activities
Political Heresy, The Templars, Joan of Arc, Sorcery and Magic, Intellect and Faith, Censorship of Books, The Greek Church, Indulgences and Simony
VI The Gentle Art of Whitewashing
Bibliography
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