After many times of persuasion by Christians, Catholicism started the purification and repression mode of the Crusaders. With the blessing of a large number of aristocratic forces, after more than 20 years of war, this heretical sect was finally purged and extinct at the end of 14. However, history has the magical ability to repeat itself, which finally makes the extinct pure undead seize the opportunity of religious struggle to reappear in the16th century.
First of all, the history of purists has never been erased
One of the purists of 1 left a profound lesson for Catholicism.
The apostles of Puritans were wiped out by the Crusaders at the end of14th century. But after all, they left a strong impression on the memory of Catholicism. In pure faith, the soul is absolutely higher than the existence of the body, and the body is created by the evil god in the Old Testament, full of endless evil desires, which makes the soul created by the good god imprisoned and defiled, and cannot be detached.
Therefore, the apostles of Puritanism practice by giving up all human desires and even self-mutilation or even suicide. Purists oppose the religious hierarchy and deny the absolute divinity of Jesus. All these practices are inconsistent with Catholic teachings. Not only that, the Puritans were extremely stubborn and refused to accept enlightenment, which made the Pope completely annoyed after repeated persuasion.
After more than 20 years of hard fighting, the Crusaders and Puritans of the Catholic Soldiers Corps finally cleaned all the Puritans. Although in the Middle Ages, the question about the religion of war never ceased, it is rare that it broke out from within Christianity and lasted for so long. This made the word Puritanism forgotten by the world at the end of 14, but the destruction and fear it once brought never disappeared in the memory of Catholics.
Secondly, the Puritans have been preserved in French history and have not disappeared.
Although Puritans used to be heretics, no one cared about them after their demise. However, the history of Puritans is related to the history of Albee Crusaders. The Albee Crusader is a force that cleanses pagans in the name of jihad, and has been fighting in southern France since13rd century.
The massacre ended with the victory of the French king supported by the Crusaders. The victory of the crusade cleansing war not only destroyed the effective strength of the Puritans, but also went down in history as an important historical event to strengthen the centralization of France in the Middle Ages. Therefore, although the Puritans were extinct, they were completely remembered by history.
Third, Toulouse, the fortress of Puritanism, is its human symbol.
In addition, Toulouse, as a fortress of purity, is also their witness. In the history of Toulouse, the records of pure schools are an indispensable part. 15 15, local historian Nicholas of Toulouse? Bertrand wrote The Story of Toulouse, in which he described in detail the beginning and end of the crusade war triggered by Puritans' heresy.
Keep the Puritans in its fortress Toulouse forever. The preservation of the history of Puritans means that there may be opportunities for people to re-read, thus being endowed with new ideas and meanings and welcoming the opportunity of rebirth.
Second, in the/kloc-6th century, Catholicism classified Protestantism and Puritanism as heresies.
1 First of all, Protestantism and Catholicism are incompatible.
/kloc-in the 0/6th century, the situation in Europe was turbulent, and the religious beliefs in France also ushered in changes. The rising Protestantism, like the original Puritans, opposed the extravagant and dark rule of Catholicism and intended to overthrow Catholicism and establish a new religious order. At first, Catholicism only marked Protestantism as heresy and suppressed it by force, but did not put Protestantism and purity together.
However, with the advancement of the religious war, Protestantism has won the counterattack, which makes Catholics realize that force alone is not enough, and it needs the participation and support of the royal family to completely overthrow Protestantism. So Catholicism moved the history of Puritans out and put it in the current situation of opposition to Protestantism to alert the royal family.
Then the ambiguous attitude of the royal family made Catholicism take the history of purists as a warning.
At first, Catholicism only branded Protestantism as heresy and carried out conventional attacks. However, the change of the royal family made their attitude towards Protestantism ambiguous, which made Catholicism flustered. /kloc-Protestantism developed rapidly in France in the first half of the 6th century, but it was still suppressed. Especially during the reign of Francois I and Henry II, Protestantism was almost submerged.
The dominant Catholicism does not need the historical reference and warning function of Puritans and Crusaders at all. So the history of Puritanism has not been mentioned too much. But after the death of Henry II, Fran?ois II succeeded to the throne, and his mother, Queen Catherine, was the Regent. The situation changed. As the in-laws of the king's wife, the Gith family grew stronger and stronger, close to Catholicism and severely suppressed Protestantism.
Considering the balance of power, Queen Catherine decided to balance the power of Protestantism and Catholicism and use Protestantism to curb the ambition of the Gith family. With the support of the minister, a series of documents were signed to protect Protestants. This worried the Catholics who stood on the peak at first, so they thought hard about history and finally found that the history of Puritans in the14th century could be used as a weapon to refute Protestantism.
They hope to dispel the queen mother's tolerance for heresy and are determined to clean it up. But this time, the history they painstakingly explored was used by their opponents. This heresy, once buried in the dust of history by Catholicism, was brought back to the world by themselves. Perhaps this is also the unexpected result of Catholicism.
Finally, Protestantism was overthrown for purity.
When the Puritans were portrayed by Catholics as heinous heresies, they were suppressed by Protestantism. However, Protestantism smelled the possibility of a counterattack. First of all, Geneva theologian Beza proposed that purism originated from primitive Christianity and Protestantism. Then it expounds that these pure apostles are lofty martyrs who resolutely safeguard pure Christian beliefs and abandon greed and the desire to give their lives for their beliefs in the face of dark rule. This will undoubtedly move and admire the believers when it is dark.
At the same time, the history of France published by the Protestant scholar La Populini El shows that Christianity has been changing, and a series of sects once marked as heretics, such as purists, are the pioneers of Christianity. Puritanism thus redefines packaging as the right path, and Protestantism related to it will also be greatly promoted.
Third, why can purists be accepted by Protestantism, then reborn and reappear in the world?
1 one is to win the trust of the royal family.
Catholicism has always been strong and has a good relationship with the royal family. Protestantism was also strongly suppressed by the royal family in its early development. In the end, the Queen Mother Catherine balanced the kingship and saved the Protestants. However, Catholicism later introduced the Puritanism threat theory and compared it with Protestantism, which did have many similarities with the previous Puritanism.
To prevent the royal family from being? Take history as a mirror? Under the influence of Protestantism, Protestantism had to remold the purists from the doctrine to the source. Make him a perfect Christian reform and martyr, so as to calm the royal family's worries, gain trust and survive.
Secondly, Protestantism needs to reshape history and origin.
Protestantism has always advertised itself as a new class, but Christianity can only have an inseparable division of beliefs. With a long and complete historical advantage, Catholicism accuses Protestantism of heresy and splitting the church. Therefore, if Protestantism expresses brand-new views, it is bound to be subject to its own roots. In order to become legitimate and orthodox, Protestantism needs to reshape its history and origin.
Protestantism needs to find a brand-new Christian Sect from the long history to become their new blood, and extend it to itself, thus creating its own new history. Protestantism points out that Christianity is divided into invisible church and tangible church. The doctrine of the invisible church can transcend time and space, and the visible church will change or even degenerate. /kloc-Protestantism in the 0 th and 6 th centuries began to criticize the fallen Vatican, which ran counter to Christianity. It is the true defenders of Christ who are criticized and suppressed by the Vatican.
Finally, the concept of martyr was created, which found the starting point of legal reform for the origin of Protestantism and reshaped birth and history. Thus, we can escape the Catholic criticism of the Protestant roots, establish our own legitimacy, and criticize the fallen Catholics who belong to Christ. After studying the Purists, I think similar situations can be reproduced as my own kin, so that I can expand my historicity and establish my own orthodoxy. In particular, the Puritans were brutally suppressed by the Vatican, which was then ruled by darkness, which was particularly distressing.
Third, Protestantism wants to expand its influence.
Comedy is always short-lived, but tragedy is profound and emotional. Purists, as a minority who insisted on their own teachings, eventually died under the cruel cleansing of the Crusaders. This was the tragic fate that the weak and pure faction could not escape at that time. But it is precisely because of this sadness that people's sympathy can be aroused.
Purists who believe in purity, lust and martyrdom are all in line with the French humanistic atmosphere and the idea of desperately pursuing freedom and ideals. It has great attraction in France. If Puritans were brought into the mainstream of their own sects, Protestantism itself would be infused with the sacred and tragic spirit of martyrdom, which would be loved and sought after by local people and enhance its influence and appeal in the dark and turbulent situation at that time.
Therefore, the choice of Protestantism is related to the history of Puritanism, which was packaged as a faction with the spirit of martyrdom in the religious reform in the16th century and was sought after by many Protestants. Tragic fate and the spirit of martyrdom are good medicines to soothe people in the turbulent and dark Middle Ages. If desperate death becomes an inescapable fate, it will bring comfort and satisfaction to beautify the tragic fate with martyrdom.
Fourth, summary.
Purists who are marked as heretics and thus purged will not think that their old rival, the Catholic Church, will be of great help to their rebirth. It never occurred to me that this heretical sect would gain the respect and support of later believers, become the upper reaches of their same clan, weave into a new history and continue to extend, and become a holy martyr to get rid of filth, slander and exclusion.
This is the infinite vitality given to him by history, because he was able to survive in the long river of history and be rescued. The second rebirth of Puritans contains the contingency and inevitability of history, and also tells people that history will indeed repeat itself, but it will never repeat itself. Those who try to control the historical trend will become pawns in the hands of fate if they are not careful.
References:
A brief history of Europe
French history
History of the French Revolution