Re: Do belief systems evolve?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Beowulf
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>Actually, there were sects sloughing off of Catholicism hundreds of
>years prior to the Protestant Reformation, which also wasn't a
>monolithic movement.  There were at least 2 distinct branches right
>from the start.  Luther based in Germany and Calvin based in
>Switzerland.
>
>However, prior to these 2 big reformers you had individuals such as
>Jon Hus and John Wycliffe laying the seeds for the coming Reformation.
>Not to mention the constant stream of heretics that the Catholics had
>to keep excommunicating (Waldensians, Albigensians, Fraticelli)
>starting in the 11th and 12th centuries.
>

Um, you forgot the *Orthodox* in the *6th* century <wg>.




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