Bogomilism
Bulgarian medieval dualism
Bogomilism was a medieval Christian dualist movement that arose in Bulgaria around the tenth century.
Bogomils believed the material world was created by an evil force, rejecting the Old Testament, church hierarchy, and sacraments.
The movement spread through the Balkans and influenced later heresies like Catharism in Western Europe.
The name derives from a Bulgarian priest called Bogomil.
Salvation through hidden wisdom
- demiurgeDivine cosmic craftsman
- cosmologyStudy of universal structure
- goodSatisfactory in quality
- evilProfound moral wickedness
spiritual · material · pneuma · dichotomy · light · darkness · Satan · creation
Southeastern European nation
- BalkansSoutheastern European peninsula
- ByzantineOf Constantinople's civilization
- ConstantinopleHistoric Turkish metropolis
- ThraceHistorical Balkan territory
Macedonia · Serbia · Bosnia · manuscripts · Slavonic · schism · crusades · monasticism
Intensely detested thing
- excommunicationFormal barring from sacraments
- condemnationSevere disapproval expressed formally
- hereticChallenger of official doctrine
- heterodoxyUnorthodox belief or opinion
unorthodoxy · persecution · inquisition · suppression · trials · burning · dissent · forbidden
Abstaining from intimate relations
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- vegetarianismAbstaining from flesh consumption
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
simplicity · poverty · prayer · purity · anti-materialism · elect · believers · self-denial
Unverified and probably untrue
- anti-clericalismOpposition to religious institutional influence
- iconoclasmAttacking revered traditions
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
Gnosticism
Salvation through hidden wisdom
evil · spiritual · material · pneuma · dichotomy · light · darkness · Satan · creation · soul
Bulgaria
Southeastern European nation
- BalkansSoutheastern European peninsula
- ByzantineOf Constantinople's civilization
- ConstantinopleHistoric Turkish metropolis
Thrace · Macedonia · Serbia · Bosnia · manuscripts · Slavonic · schism · crusades · monasticism · clergy
anathema
Intensely detested thing
- excommunicationFormal barring from sacraments
- condemnationSevere disapproval expressed formally
- hereticChallenger of official doctrine
heterodoxy · unorthodoxy · persecution · inquisition · suppression · trials · burning · dissent · forbidden · underground
celibacy
Abstaining from intimate relations
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- vegetarianismAbstaining from flesh consumption
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
renunciation · simplicity · poverty · prayer · purity · anti-materialism · elect · believers · self-denial
apocryphal
Unverified and probably untrue
- anti-clericalismOpposition to religious institutional influence
- iconoclasmAttacking revered traditions
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
- European faithsCatholicism, Protestantism, Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy
- heresiesGnosticism, heresy, Monophysitism, unorthodoxy, heterodoxy
- Religious DualismGnosticism, Zoroastrianism, good and evil, light and darkness, demiurge
- Balkan faithsEastern Orthodoxy, Greek Orthodoxy
- Bulgarian ChristianityChristianization, Old Church Slavonic, Cyrillic alphabet
- Bulgarian Empiretsars, khans, Cyrillic alphabet, tsardom, boyars
BogomilismOrthodox Christianity
Ancient apostolic church tradition
Eastern Orthodoxy · Roman Catholicism · Catholic Church · state church · established church