John Mundy wrote:
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Could the "credentes" instead have essentially wanted to adhere to
those beliefs that enabled them to reject orthodox authority and its
church? Is it not possible that what they may have disliked even more
than its "vices" was the church's increasing penetration of, or
intrusion into, social behaviour and life, the rapidly developing
penitential system, the confessional [...]
Dislike of "the rapidly developing penitential system, the
confessional..." A seductive thought. Would you please elaborate?
Thinking of the Cathars in Languedoc, ca. 1200-1215, would you think
that the developing penitential system was a response to laxity of
morals among Cathars, or that the flexible morality of the Cathars was a
reaction to a penitential system (confessional) perceived as rigid and
invasive? Thanks, Luciana Cuppo
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Luciana Cuppo Csaki
Societas internationalis pro Vivario
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