Christian dualist heresies in the Byzantine world, c. 650-c. 1450 : selected sources
Christian dualism originated in the reign of Constans II (641-68). It was a popular religion, which shared with Orthodoxy an acceptance of Scriptural authority and apostolic tradition and held a sacramental doctrine of salvation, but understood all these in a radically different way from the Orthodox Church. One of the differences was the strong part demonology played in the belief system. This book traces through original sources the origins of dualist Christianity throughout the Byzantine Empire, focusing on the Paulician movement in Armenia and Bogomilism in Bulgaria. Not only does it present the theological texts, but puts the movements into their social and political context. This fascinating source book brings into English translation, many for the first time, these extraordinary sources of information on a major religious movement which continued until the thirteenth century and emerged in Western Europe in the form of Catharism
Print Book, English, 1998
Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, 1998