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Bogomils (bō`gōmĭlz), members of Europe's first great dualist church, which flourished in Bulgaria and the Balkans from the 10th to the 15th cent. Their creed, adapted from the Paulicians Paulicians (pôlĭsh`ənz), Christian heretical sect. ..... Click the link for more information. and modified by other Gnostic and Manichaean sources, is attributed to Theophilus or Bogomil, a Bulgarian priest of the 10th cent. The movement was intensely nationalistic and political, as well as religious, and reflected resentment of Byzantine culture, Slavic serfdom, and imperial authority. They vanished due to persecution and the expansion of Islam, but bits of their ideas and folklore persisted for centuries in Slavic lands. BibliographySee M. Loos, Dualist Heresy in the Middle Ages (1974). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Finally, in the pre-Constantine period, a bridge between Gnosticism and such later movements as the Bogomils and Albigensians, there was Manicheanism, one of the last Eastern movements to permeate the West. |
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