Feb 3, 2023

Mr. Michael Davies discusses the Catholic Doctrine on the Holy Eucharist. Mr. Davies opens his treatment of heresy in the late Middle Ages by discussing the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist. This, of course, had been tied by the 1200's with expressions that explained that doctrine with language taken from Aristotle....

Feb 3, 2023

Mr. Michael Davies describes John Wycliff and the first Protestants, the Lollards. John Wycliffe was, after the Catharists, perhaps the most clear cut heretic of the era. His whole approach to Faith and Reason led him to conclusions of the most blasphemous sort, attacking the very holiness of Christ as well as any...

Feb 3, 2023

Mr. Michael Davies provides a critique of the Dominican reformer, Girolamo Savonarola. Heresy found fertile soil wherever the Church was corrupt. This was due to the fact that a corrupt Church does not do its duty in fighting heresy, while its abuses discredit it in the eyes of the average man. Savonarola, the...