At 13:29 15/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I believe that resemblances sometimes can be taken for revivals, e.g.
>seeing Donatism in Lollard doubts about the validity of the ministrations
>of sinful priests. More conscious imitation of an early heresy, esp. one
>of the less known ones, probably would be rare in any period.
>
>Rhetorical use of a label, e.g., Pelagian, also should be taken into
>account.
St Bernard accuses Abelard of many old heresies:
"When he discourses of the Trinity he savours of Arius; when of grace, of
Pelagius; when of the Person of Christ, of Nestorius" (Letter CXCII, AD 1140).
You must decide for yourself how much justice, if any, there was in
Bernard's accusations.
Bill.
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