Word: hereticism
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The professor's feelings on freedom of conscience also leave the reader concerned. "The judgment that one can not be a heretic with good conscience has been accepted by the church...Heresy is not an error in judgment or a difference in expression, but a demonic possession, splitting the moral...
Durant is at his best in his cogent, detailed discussion of that oddly reactionary heretic, Baruch Spinoza, who by conceiving of the universe as one elemental, infinite substance, indivisible from God, finally achieved what the age had not thought possible-an accommodation between science and religion.
But the trouble with Cities of the Flesh, the second novel, is not, as might be thought, that Author Oldenbourg has now begun to meet herself coming and going. It is rather that the real history is so compelling that the histrionics of her characters sometimes seem frivolous and shoddy...
Who Made the World? The church, as everyone knows, and as the count should have expected, remained implacable. Instead of forgiveness, it created the Dominican Order, and set in motion the Inquisition just to cope with heretics. Under the horrifying impact of burning and torturing that ensued, even so uncomplicated...
Frequently diffuse and cryptic, Miss Oldenbourg's account nevertheless rises on occasion to a passionate eloquence which perceives (and persuades) that physical cruelty is a pure manifestation of evil. As a temporarily absolved prisoner, De Montbrun is forced to watch the Inquisition's heretic burnings in Toulouse. Through...