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By David Burr. When medieval people used the word "inquisition, " they were referring to a judicial technique, not an organization. There was , in fact, no such thing as "the Inquisition" in the sense of an impersonal organization with a chain of command. Instead there were "inquisitors of heretical depravity, " individuals assigned by the pope to inquire into heresy in specific areas.

Back to Medieval Source Book Medieval Sourcebook: Bernard Gui: Inquisitorial Technique (c.1307-1323) Bernard Gui: was Inquisitor in Toulousel 1307-1323. The medieval inquisition had been created during the reign of Pope Gregory IX (1227-1241). Its main technique was to extract confessions. Bernard describes the techniques used in interrogations. When a heretic is first brought up for ...

Back to Medieval Source Book BERNARD GUI: INQUISITOR'S MANUAL 1. The following deals with the sect of those commonly called Beguins or Beguines: The sect of Beguines, who call themselves poor brothers and say they observe and profess the third rule of Saint Francis, sprang up recently in the provinces of Provence and Narbonne. Their erroneous opinions began to be exposed around the year of our ...

Back to Medieval Source Book Verbal Processes In the following processes, I have given all names in what I at least imagine to be their French form. Thus Petrus Iohannis Olivi turns into Pierre Dejean Olieu, as he does in the Prous selection. I urge you to remember that we're dealing with the same person here, the man whose Apocalypse commentary I've translated in another selection. Bernard ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: The Crime of Galileo: Indictment and Abjuration of 1633 Whereas you, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, of Florence, aged seventy years, were denounced in 1615, to this Holy Office, for holding as true a false doctrine taught by many, namely, that the sun is immovable in the center of the world, and that the earth moves, and ...

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Guide to Early Church Documents Soli Deo Gloria... This hypertext document contains pointers to Internet-accessible files relating to the early church, including canonical documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and other historical texts relevant to church history. The latest version of this document is located at: http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of London's famed New Park Street Church (formerly pastored by the famous Baptist theologian John Gill).

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Early Church Fathers v2.0 (About) All of the files linked here except the Windows Helpfiles are in the public domain. Copy freely. There is a footnote bug. Work on Version 3 has begun. Search: Match: All Any Ante-Nicene Fathers The Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325 Volume I. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus Clement of Rome, Mathetes, Polycarp, Ignatius, Barnabas, ...

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Wesley Center Online Northwest Nazarene University 1993-2002 Home John Wesley Life Publications Charles Wesley Journal Hymns: Lyrics & Music John Fletcher's Works Wesleyan Theology Wesleyan Theological Journal Other Resources Holiness Tradition Holiness Classics Library Related Traditions Arminianism Works of Arminius Other Influences Aids to Biblical Studies Noncanonical Literature Parable ...

Early Christian Writings: the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnosticism, Church Fathers: text information and translations of Gnostic Gospels, apocryphal Acts, pseudepigrapha epistles, and documents of ancient Christianity like the Gospel of St Thomas.

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Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Library of Congress Exhibition). This exhibition demonstrates that many of the colonies that in 1776 became the United States of America were settled by men and women of deep religious convictions who in the seventeenth century crossed the Atlantic Ocean to practice their faith freely. That the religious intensity of the original settlers ...

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Worlds of Late Antiquity This is a home page for miscellaneous materials relating to the culture of the Mediterranean world in late antiquity (roughly 200-700 C.E.). Some of it is organized for the benefit of instruction and there will be from time to time links of interest principally to my students, but there are also substantial materials of general interest. This page prepared and maintained ...

HOME | Contact GCAH | Administration | Resources | Museum | Research | Catalog Welcome! This web site represents The General Commission on Archives and History for The United Methodist Church. You will find many useful and interesting pages here to place the information you need at your fingertips. Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the way things are organized. The purpose of ...

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NEW! For ASCH Members Only Online Member Directory Login to Member Services to browse ANNUAL MEETING Chicago 2-5 January 2003 The American Society of Church History is an organization of scholars who share a common interest in the history of ecclesiastical experience and in the historical interaction between religious expressions and culture. The ASCH promotes the maintenance of high standards ...

The Reformation Guide This Reformation Guide is intended to provide easy access to the wealth of Internet information available on the reformation period. The links to the original web sites have been preserved so that users may access the most recent developments. From Reformation to Revolution: 1500-1650 Schaff's History of the Christian Church Topics Martin Luther Phillip Melanchthon John ...

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Reformation: Luther: Selected Works of Martin Luther Lutheran Hymnals Smalcald Articles Treatise of the Power and Primacy of the Pope The Augsburg Confession (1530) Small Catechism (1529) An Open Letter On Translating (in English) 95 Theses: Latin version English translation Related Correspondence: Letter to the Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz (1517) Letter to Pope Leo X, Accompanying the ...

Musique au temps des Papes : decouvrez le programme des concerts et conferences de mai septembre 2002 Decouvrez le Palais des papes dans une etonnantevisite virtuelle Le Palais des Papes, le Pont St-Benezet et le Centre International des Congr s sont geres par RMG. Tous les mois, retrouvez La lettre de RMG (infos, actualite, chiffres) (format pdf )- Telechargez le lecteur Acrobat Reader si ...

Annotated directory of Internet resources for the study of church history and historical theology, from the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University.

Internet Archive of Texts and Documents The Protestant Reformation Texts Lutheran Reformations Martin Luther Philip Melanchthon, The Life of Martin Luther Part 1 Part 2 (Project Wittenberg) Philip Melanchthon, Of the Power and Primacy of the Pope (Project Wittenberg) Papal Bull Exsurge Domine (1520) (Apana) The German Peasant Revolt: Selected Documents The German Mass and Order of Divine Service ...

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Chronology of Christianity (1AD-Present) Last Update: 28 May 1997 (corrections made) The purpose of this chronology is to assist Christians of any denomination in their search for knowledge and truth regarding the development of the Christian religion. The primary sources used in assembling this list include a chronology by Paul Harvey, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, the Academic American ...

THE MALLEUS MALEFICARUM of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger Unabridged online republication of the 1928 edition. Introduction to the 1948 edition is also included. Translation, notes, and two introductions by Montague Summers. A Bull of Innocent VIII. The Malleus Maleficarum Search the Malleus Introduction to Online Edition Introduction to 1948 Edition Introduction to 1928 Edition A Note Upon ...

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Early Church Documents (circa 96-150 A.D.) Introductory Comments by Aaron Cardenas &ltaaronc@mit.edu&gt These are early church documents from the Apostolic Fathers. Since they are not scripture, naturally the doctrine suffers. The only of these documents that I would recommend as sound doctrine is the 1st Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians . The letter is not without a few glaring ...

Foxs Book of Martyrs by John Foxe Title: Foxs Book of Martyrs Author: Foxe, John (1516-1587) Language: English CCEL Subjects: All; Classic; Biography LC Call no: BR1600 LC Subjects: Christianity Persecution. Martyrs Search: Other files available for Foxs Book of Martyrs begin.htm HTML file fox101.htm HTML file fox102.htm HTML file fox103.htm HTML file fox104.htm HTML file fox105.htm HTML file ...

There have been several reasons for the Syracuse University Library to collect materials about Oneida Community and its antecedents and branches. For more than sixty years the Library has been assembling data on social-religious movements of New York State during the nineteenth century as part of its collecting policy to include local history -with chief emphasis on the geographical region of ...

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Christianity The Apostolic Era c. 6-4 BC: Birth of Jesus AD c. 27-30: Period of Jesus' ministry c. 48: Paul's Conversion 29-69: Christianity spreads to Syria, Asia Minor, and Italy. c. 65-95: The Gospels are written. The Early Church c.100-200: Administrative structure of the Church develops. c. 150-c. 230: Clement of Alexandria 250: Emperor Decius begins systematic persecution Christians Roman ...

Church history - extensive notes covering the period up through the Reformation.

The AdHoc website is a project of the Yale Divinity School and Yale Divinity Library. About AdHoc AdHoc Digital Library EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies AdHoc--Teaching and Research Resources for the History of Christianity Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06511 Contact: Martha Smalley, Website Coordinator Copyright &copy 1998 on webpage design Yale University ...

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Research essay on the history and spirituality of the Beguines.

A History of Christianity in Egypt The Saints Hagiography, the writing of the lives of saints, has long been a common activity of many scholars of religion. As with any religion, the story of its success is really the story of its members who made it succeed. Christianity honors its greatest members by making them saints, and what follows is a collection of Egyptian saints that were instrumental ...

FOX's BOOK of MARTYRS Edited by William Byron Forbush This is a book that will never die -- one of the great English classics. . . . Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when a noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid, climbed the steep ascent of heaven, 'mid peril, toil, and pain. After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly influenced early ...

J. A. Wylie was born in Scotland in 1808. The History of Protestantism, by Wylie, shamefully went out of print in the 1920's.

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Henry C Lea (1829-1909): The Inquisition in 17th-Century Peru: Cases of Portuguese Judaizers The most serious business of the tribunal, in the line of its proper functions, was with the apostasy of the Jewish New Christians. From the very foundation of the colonies . . . restrictions were laid on the emigration of Conversos and a law ...

Elizabeth Clark: John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion and Director of the Graduate Program in Religion Duke University What was the status of women in the early church Were they particularly attracted to it The status of women in early Christianity has been quite debated in recent decades, no doubt prompted by interest in the women's movement in Western countries today. I think the ...

The Scriptorium: Center for Biblical Antiquities is the repository for The Van Kampen Collection of ancient artifacts, manuscripts, and rare printed materials. The collection consists primarily of biblical texts in all representative forms and is supplemented by secondary resources and the personal library of Eberhard Nestle, a leading nineteenth-century German biblical scholar. The Scriptorium ...

Founded in 1960, the Canadian Society of Church History is a non-denominational association dedicated to promoting and encouraging research in the history of Christianity, particularly the history of Christianity in Canada. Over the years, the Society's annual meetings have provided a forum for Canada's leading historians of Christianity. In addition, the Society has encouraged younger ...

Volume Thirty-Five 1993 Essays in History Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. The Devil and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century France Carleton Cunningham RESEARCH conducted by social historians in the past few decades has revealed a rich fabric of religious belief and ritual in late medieval and early modern Europe. In concentrating on ...

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THE LIST OF HEADS OF GEORGIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (From 335 AD + ...) ARCHBISHOPS: N A M E Y E A R S IOANE I 335-363 IAKOBI 363-375 IOBI 375-390 ELIA 390-400 SVIMEONI 400-410 MOSE 410-425 IONA 425-429 IREMIA 429-433 GRIGOLI I 433-434 BASILI I 434-436 MOBIDANI 436-443 IOVELI I 443-458 MIQEL I 459-467 CATHOLICOS-ARCHBISHOPS: N A M E Y E A R S PETRE I 467-474 SAMOEL I 474-502 GABRIEL I 502-510 ...

Timeline of the Seven Thousand Years of Measured Time This timeline is a portion of Prophecy: The Second Coming of Jesus Christ The Timeline of the Seven Thousand Years of Measured Time is a clickable map graphic created from the physical plotting of the literal, historical, Holy Word of God, with a prophetic projection. The following five images are parts of the clickable map, and were ...

THE CHURCH IN CRISIS: A History of the General Councils: 325-1870 Mgr. Philip Hughes, The Church in Crisis: A History of the General Councils, 325 - 1870. A comprehensive survey of the origins, accomplishments and significance of the twenty General Councils of the Church. Explains the nature and function of General Councils, and tells how each was called and what it accomplished, in the context ...

Studies in Early Christianity: Topics Include: Primitive Roman Gods, Mystery Religions, Occult, Philosophy, Plato, Gnosticism, Neo-Platonism, Epicureans, Stoicism, Cynicism, Skepticism, Imperial Cult, Early Church, Gentiles, Samaritans ...

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