Milyen volt valójában az inkvizíció? (1.)
What Was the Inquisition Really Like? (1)

Summary/Abstract: Inquisition means something very negative, antihuman, due to the overwhelmingly anticlerical, anti-ecclesiastical propaganda. When the historical facts are considered, at first sight one can see that the term itself means at least four types of persecutions and institutions that performed it. Not all were even linked to the Church. The article presents the history of the inquisition based on a thorough historic examination and presenting the background. Within the first Christian communities heresy was punished by excommunication (Greek: anathema). The punishment aimed not so much to really punish the guilty person, but to somehow make him/her better. Inquisition as an institution started together with the imposing of the antiheretic laws. The church leaders acted together with state officials. The first antiheretic laws were applied in the Roman Empire. In the 11–12th centuries mainly state officials were enforcing these laws.

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