Les cathares, histoire et spiritualité

Philippe Roy, in advocating the spirituality of the Cathars, wrote a precise and detailed work on the purity of these spiritualities of the Middle Ages. The author reiterates that Catharism is an identity in and of itself. More than a protest movement or compensation phenomenon, it was a complete spirituality, a path profoundly anchored in the Christian tradition. He carefully approaches the manifestations of Catharism, its doctrines and philosophy, its place in the spiritual evolution of the West... Catharism is a Gnostic religion, in the sense that it aimed to create a union between the soul and the spirit through spiritual baptism. What are its sources, it origins? The neo-Manichaean hypothesis? An origin in Bogomilism? An Origenist ancestry? A form of neo-Paganism shrouded by an appearance of Christianity? In this work, the author takes a detailed approach to all hypotheses, with the exception of the theories of esotericists which he takes no further, given their outlandish or unverifiable nature. A thrilling study thanks to its original and highly personal approach, where we can discover a certain form of individual wisdom.