Bogomil

...A Christian heresy that was influential in the Balkans in the Middle Ages. It is said to have been founded in the first half of the 10th century by Bogomil, a priest in the Macedonian region of western Bulgaria, under the influence of the Paulist sect. It was a dualistic heresy that saw the world as being divided into good and evil, and it completely rejected not only the church system and liturgy, but also secular authority and social systems as having been created by Satan (the devil), which resulted in its appearance as an anti-establishment movement and led to oppression by the rulers and the church. The Bogomil sect itself did not have a clear church system, and there was only a distinction between the "perfect" who practiced strict asceticism and the rest of the believers. ...

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…中世のバルカン半島で勢力をふるったキリスト教の異端。パウロ派の影響のもとに，10世紀前半のブルガリア西部マケドニア地方の司祭ボゴミルBogomilが興したとされる。世界を善と悪の対立でとらえる二元論的異端で，教会制度や典礼はもとより，世俗の権威や社会制度もサタン(悪魔)の創始したものとして徹底的に否認したため，反体制運動の様相を呈し，支配者および教会の弾圧を招いた。ボゴミル派自体ははっきりした教会制度を持たず，厳格な禁欲主義を実践する〈完全者〉とそれ以外の信徒の別があったにすぎない。…

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