BOGOMILS OF BULGARIA AND BOSNIA

The Early Protestants of the East.

AN ATTEMPT TO RESTORE SOME LOST LEAVES OF PROTESTANT HISTORY.

BY
L. P. BROCKETT, M. D.

Author of: "The Cross and the Crescent," "History of Religious Denominations," etc.

PHILADELPHIA
AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY,
1420 CHESTNUT STREET.

Entered to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by the AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 

CONTENTS

_______

SECTION I
Introduction.—The Armenian and other Oriental churches.

SECTION II
Dualism and the phantastic theory of our Lord's advent in the Oriental churches —The doctrines they rejected.—They held to baptism.

SECTION III
Gradual decline of the dualistic doctrine —The holy and exemplary lives of the Paulicians.

SECTION IV
The cruelty and bloodthirstiness of the Empress Theodora —The free state and city of Tephrice.

SECTION V
The Sclavonic development of the Catharist or Paulician churches.—Bulgaria, Bosnia, and Servia its principal seats —Euchites, Massalians, and Bogomils

SECTION VI
The Bulgarian Empire and its Bogomil czars.

SECTION VII
A Bogomil congregation and its worship —Mostar, on the Narenta.

SECTION VIII
The Bogomilian doctrines and practices —The Credentes and Perfecti —Were the Credentes baptized?

SECTION IX
The orthodoxy of the Greek and Roman churches rather theological than practical —Fall of the Bulgarian Empire.

SECTION X
The Emperor Alexius Comnenus and the Bogomil Elder Basil —The Alexiad of the Princess Anna Comnena.

SECTION XI
The martyrdom of Basil —The Bogomil churches reinforced by the Armenian Paulicians under the Emperor John Zimisces.

SECTION XII
The purity of life of the Bogomils —Their doctrines and practices —Their asceticism.

SECTION XIII
The missionary spirit and labors of the elders and Perfecti —The entire absence of any hierarchy.

SECTION XIV
The Bogomil churches in Bosnia and the Herzegovina —Their doctrines more thoroughly scriptural than those of the Bulgarian churches —Bosnia as a banate and kingdom.

SECTION XV
Bosnian history continued —The good Ban Culin.

SECTION XVI
The growth of the Bogomil churches under Culin —Their missionary zeal and success.

SECTION XVII
The authorities from whose testimony this narrative is drawn —Its thorough corroboration by a cloud of witnesses.

SECTION XVIII
The era of persecution —The crusades against the Bogomils —Archbishop of Colocz.

SECTION XIX
Further crusades —The hostility of Pope Innocent IV —More lenient, but not more effective, measures.

SECTION XX
The establishment of the Inquisition in Bosnia —Letter of Pope John XXII —Previous testimony of enemies to the purity of the lives of the Bogomils.

SECTION XXI
Further persecution —A lull in its fury during the over-lordship of the Serbian Czar Stephen Dushan —The reign of the Tvart-ko dynasty.

SECTION XXII
The Reformation in Bohemia and Hungary a Bogomil movement —Renewal of persecution under Kings Stephen Thomas and Stephen Tomasevic —The Pobratimtso.

SECTION XXIII
Overtures to the sultan —the surrender of Bosnia to Mahomet II under stipulations —His base treachery and faithlessness —The cruel destruction and enslavement of the Bogomils of Bosnia and, twenty years later, of those of the Duchy of Herzegovina.

SECTION XXIV
The Bogomils not utterly extinguished —Their influence on society, literature, and progress in the Middle Ages —Dante, Milton, etc.—The Puritans —Conclusion.

APPENDIX I
A liturgy of the Toulouse Publicans in (probably) the Sixteenth Century

APPENDIX II
Were the Paulician and Bogomil churches Baptist Churches?