![]() ![]() Heretics became the true faithful, the Church became corrupt and false, its heroes fell, and its laws were declared illegitimate. Over a period of fifteen years, they produced fourteen large volumes that analysed historical documents for a new, revised interpretation of past events. In Germany the biggest attempt to resolve the problem of History was undertaken in the city of Magdeburg by a group of scholars who became known as the Magdeburg Centuriators. The price, and the danger, for such failure was the loss of the very soul of humanity. Rather, it had misled the faithful, corrupted the holy men and the messengers, robbed from the poor to make themselves rich, forbidden all but the most learned from knowing the words that Christ had taught them. It had not defended them from threats internal and external. The Church, led from Rome had not acted in the best interests of humanity, they argued. They claimed that the history of a united Roman Catholic Church acting against heretical groups and defending the West from heathen threats, no longer worked. ![]() They argued that the traditional story of early Christian conversion led by the divinely appointed leader of the Church, the Pope of Rome, was no longer valid. There were those who believed that a reformation of religion could not be complete until a reformation of history had been attempted. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |