by Michel Roquebert · Editorial Crítica · tapa dura · ISBN 9788498923933
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The history of the Cathars is well known: the brutalities of the crusade, the persecutions of the Inquisition, the massacre of Montsegur, and the death at the stake of the last “perfect” in 1321. What we knew of their religion, however, came mostly from what their enemies said. Until the discovery of authentic Cathar texts allowed us to discover the reality of their beliefs and practices. Michel Roquebert, one of the best scholars of the history of Catharism, reveals their ideas about the origin of evil, the existence of a principle that is the author of all evils, the two creations of the world, and the path to salvation. Roquebert also shows, by comparing these beliefs with those of orthodox Catholicism, that this church without mass, crosses, or final judgment, was already posing problems that still trouble Christians today in the world after Auschwitz.
Michel Roquebert was a French writer and historian.
