AN INTRODUCTION TO A COMPARATIVE THEOLOGICAL APPROACH TOWARDS ZIGABENUS’ ACCOUNT ON BOGOMILISM
AN INTRODUCTION TO A COMPARATIVE THEOLOGICAL APPROACH TOWARDS ZIGABENUS’ ACCOUNT ON BOGOMILISM

Summary/Abstract: The emergence of new dualistic movements in Europe, which claim continuity from the medieval Bogomilism, gives rise to the actual problem of the doctrinal specifics and the commonalities with related dualistic heresies in the Balkans. This, in turn, poses the problem of the analysis and systematization of the corpus of data on the Bogomils and other dualistic heresies, as well as the comparative dogmatic analysis of the diverse evidences contained in this corpus. In an isolated corpus of data, an attempt will be made to apply and verify some methodological presuppositions of comparative dogmatic analysis aimed at establishing criteria of similarity and a comparative methodological prototype for differentiating commonalities and specifics between Bogomilism, Paulicianism, and Massalianism. The sources are limited to the emblematic author systemizing the three main dualistic heresies in the Balkans in his Panoplia Dogmatica— Euthymius Zigabenus.

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