Black Card medieval Church - next to the Inquisition and the backwardness of the Middle Ages - to its critics were to be Crusades. One of the first authors of the black legend of the Crusades was Martin Luther, who wrote about the crusades, admitted that if I was a soldier and as a military flag crest seen a priest or a cross, even if it was a crucifix, uciekałbym, as if the devil was chasing me. .. Muslims from the seventh century 30s, over the next few decades performed a systematic conquest of the Christian lands: Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, North Africa, Spain and southern Gaul (France). They occupied the Holy Land. The conquered territories were not the periphery of Christianity, its peripheries, but the opposite: there were areas where flourished for centuries the Christian life and Christian culture. Cities such as Antioch in Syria, Hippo in North Africa and Seville in Spain, all of Cappadocia in Asia Minor, not to mention the Holy Land - has always been associated with the life of the Church as the seat of the oldest bishoprics, a place of teaching fathers and doctors of the Church. Still remember one thing: Muslim aggression in Europe did not stop interreligious dialogue, but the victory of the Franks at the Battle of the Arabs at Poitiers in 732 r. Anyway, this victory did not mean elimination of the hazard. In the year 846 Muslim - dominated the operating of their southern Italy and Sicily - made a raid on Rome, destroying St. Peters Basilica. Peter (and confession Prince of the Apostles) and St. Peters Basilica. Paul Outside the Walls. Imagine what would happen if the Christian army made the same invasion of Mecca and destroyed located there holiest mosque for Muslims. As long as the Church would have to apologize for the sins of their sons! So Christians, both in the West and in the East (in the eighth and ninth century Constantinople replied victorious siege of the Arabs) - willy-nilly - accustomed to the fact that the concept of knights of Christ (militia Christi) not only has its traditional meaning with respect to the monks taking spiritual warfare behind the walls of monasteries, but also fight in the most literal sense: the struggle undertaken in defense of their faith. And in this sense, the Crusades were regarded as a just war.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:06:20 +0000
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