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The Albigensian Crusade: The History and Legacy of the Catholic Campaign Against the Cathars in France , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 129min
“The Roman Church...[says] that the heretics they persecute are the church of wolves. But this is absurd, for the wolves have always pursued and killed the sheep, and today, it would have to be the other way around for the sheep to be so mad as to bite, pursue, and kill the wolves, and for the wolves to be so patient as to let the sheep devour them!” (Excerpt from the alleged writings of the Cathars)Christianity was not a state religion for its first three centuries, and it was only when Emperor Constantine the Great declared it so in the early fourth century that the Church was faced with the thorny problem of state-sanctioned violence. The first major Christian authority to justify the use of arms in defense of Church and State was Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, who wrote in the fifth century, “They who have waged war in obedience to the divine command or in conformity with his laws, have represented in their persons the public justice or the wisdom of government, and in this capacity have put to death wicked men; such persons have by no means violated the commandment, ‘Thou shalt not kill.’”After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, when Western Europe was governed by a Germanic warrior-caste, the theory of a just and virtuous war took root. The Roman Church enhanced its authority by sanctifying oaths taken for just military purposes, and Bishop Anselm of Lucca (d. 1086) was the first to suggest that military action for the cause of religion could remit sin.At the Council of Clermont in July 1095, Pope Urban II canonized religious war by urging Western Europe's nobility to take up arms in defense of the Byzantine Empire against the Muslims, thus launching the Crusades. Religious military orders such as the Knights of Saint John, the Templars, and the Hospitallers arose, ostensibly founded to protect the weak and the sick and also to extend the boundaries of Christianity and the power of the Church. In Europe, the knight, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Houle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223247/bk_acx0_223247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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