« Catharisme » : différence entre les versions

The influence of Catharism on the Catholic Church was enormous. To counteract it celibacy was finally imposed on the clergy, and the great mendicant orders evolved; while the constant polemic of the Cathar teachers against the cruelty, rapacity and irascibility of the Jewish tribal god led the church to prohibit the circulation of the Old Testament among the laymen. The sacrament of "extreme unction" was also evolved by way of competing with the death-bed consolamentum of the Catharists. <ref>''Encyclopaedia Britannica'', 11ème éd., article "Cathars" ("Cathares")</ref>  

(source : "Heretics and the Renaissance", Revue ''Theosophy'', Vol. 53, No. 6, avril 1965)

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