Heresy in Christianity
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Heresy in Christianity denotes the formal denial or doubt of a core doctrine of the Christian faith as defined by one or more of the Christian churches.
This 1711 illustration for the Index Librorum Prohibitorum depicts the Holy Ghost supplying the book burning fire.
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Inquisition
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An inquisition was a Catholic judicial procedure in which ecclesiastical judges could initiate, investigate and try cases in their jurisdiction. Popularly, the Inquisition became the name for various
Heresy in Christianity
…as a church, it defined orthodoxy and combated deviation from it by developing ecclesiastical, universal, and ecumenical councils. Excommunication, inquisition, and execution (by civil authorities) were used against heretics who refused to recant, and major heresies were sometimes dealt with by military crusades…
Tribunal at the Inquisitor's Palace in Birgu, Malta. Eymeric's manual recommends that the accused be seated on a backless low bench.
The Albigensian massacre (chronicle of Saint-Denis, 14th century, London, British Library)
Waldensians flying on a broom, in a manuscript by Martin Le France (1451)
Pedro Berruguete, Saint Dominic Guzmán presiding over an Auto da fe (c. 1495). (Portuguese for "Act of Faith").