Relaps

Relaps is the term under which the religious authority designates a follower fallen down in what she regards as a Hérésie after it had solemnly given up it.

Experiences a great development within the framework of the Christianisme but gets busy in the Religion S characterized by a corpus of Dogme S or in the process of dogmatization.

Christianity

The question of the relaps cannot be included/understood without connection of the question of the forgiveness and the reconciliation. At the 2nd century of the Christianity, number of Hétérodoxie S were classified in Hérésie to have a deviation compared to the catholic faith.

The Baptism being then only the Sacrament Sinned forgiveness of the S, some wished according to the cases:

  • an exclusion AD vitam aeternam
  • a procedure and one invented the Pénitence.

Such was the case of the Novartiens (Syria), Mélétiens (Egypt), the Donatistes (the Maghreb).

With the Middle Ages

Jacques de Molay, last Master of the Ordre of the Temple was carried out as relaps after being returned on the consents which he had authorized under torture. And Jeanne d' Arc was carried out like relaps in spite of its promise to have carried of the men's clothes, although its ladies' garments had been withdrawn to him.

Generally, any suspect of the Inquisition (new convert, marranes) was initially suspected of being a relaps.

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