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Jan Hus background

Published on June 3, 2015 Author msherwoo

A few thoughts – I’m too burnt out from Tuesday to come up with anything coherent. Mengel, David “A Plague on Bohemia? Mapping the Black Death.” Past and Present 211 (2011): 3-34. The often-cited “fact” that Bohemia and southern Poland escaped the mid-14th century bubonic plague epidemic rests on shaky evidence, but total mortality was… Continue reading Jan Hus background →

The Construction of Heresy

Published on May 21, 2015 Author msherwoo

The twelfth and thirteenth centuries saw the development both of active, widespread movements that challenged the official theology and hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, and the development of an apparatus, the Inquisition, to systematically identify and extirpate heretical communities. The earliest sect to pose such a challenge was that variously called the Cathars, Albigensians,… Continue reading The Construction of Heresy →

Gnostic Gospel of Thomas

Published on April 20, 2015 Author msherwoo2 Comments

Theology and Christology of the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas Rather than write in general terms on this extremely broad topic I am focusing on Thomas 13 since it seems to be a particularly clear example where the account in the synoptic gospels has been reframed to lend credence to the Gnostic outlook on the process… Continue reading Gnostic Gospel of Thomas →