Catharism

Medieval southern European Christian dualist movement

Catharism ( KATH-ər-iz-əm; from the Ancient Greek: καθαροί, romanized: katharoí, "the pure ones") was a Christian quasi-dualist and pseudo-Gnostic movement in northern Italy and southern France between the 12th and 14th centuries. According to ecclesiastical literature and propaganda characteristic of the Holy Roman Inquisition, Cathars believed that there were not one, but two Gods—the good God of Heaven and the evil god of this age (2 Corinthians 4:4); that the good God was the God of the New Testament faith and the creator of the spiritual realm. Cathars identified the evil god as Satan, the master of the physical world, who was the same as the God of the Old Testament.

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