Albigenses
A neo-Manichaean sect, associated with the Catharist (Puritan) movement, that flourished in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries. They believed in a good spirit who created the spiritual, and in an evil spirit who created the material world, including the human body, which is therefore under his control. The good spirit created the soul but the […]
Messalians; Adelphians; Bogomili; Enthusiasts; Euchites; The Filthy
An heretical sect originating in Mesopotamia, 360. They denied that the Sacraments give grace and declared that the only spiritual power is prayer. Prayer, they said, drives out the evil spirit and brings into the soul the Holy Spirit, and thus unites the soul to God and gives perfect control over the passions. The fervor […]
The Acacian Schism
Break between East and West Doctrinal Differences: The doctrinal differences that split the Church had to do with a heresy known as “Monophysitism.” Monophysites believed that Christ had only one nature: divine. But orthodox belief held that Christ had two natures: both divine and human. This concept had been deliberately expressed at the Council of […]