Cathars, Crusaders, and the Inquisition

Shortly after Western Christians launched external crusades that successfully (if brutally) reconquered the Holy Lands, a new perceived enemy of the faith emerged in the south of France. The Cathars were a Christian sect that rejected Trinitarian theology to embrace dualism. Catharism taught that the New Testament God was the true and good God who had created our immaterial spirits, but that these had been trapped in this material world, which was created by the evil God of the Old Testament. The most powerful pope of the Middle Ages, took the novel approach of calling an internal crusade to defeat the Cathars militarily, but it was only with the foundation of the Medieval Inquisition that the religion was finally exterminated. A Q&A and discussion will follow the presentation. Please send your questions on the live chat. Lecture topics include: Crusades Inquisition Theology Heresy Cathars Middle Ages European History History of Christianity #lecture #cofchrist