Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: horton@b11.ingr.com (Mac Horton) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Were the Nicolaitans Antinomian Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 90 00:32:48 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: The R.A.I.J. Lines: 27 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article davidbu@tekigm2.men.tek.com (David Buxton) writes: [inquires about antinomianism in the early church] I apologize for not being more specific, but I don't have a Bible at work and keep forgetting to look this up at home: there are some passages in Paul, I believe in either first or second Corinthians, which have been taken by at least one commentator, Fr. Ronald Knox, to be directed toward a group which seems to have been operating on antinomian principles. (I mean antinomian in the sense of really practicing an "anything goes" morality). Also, the Albigensians of the Middle Ages were reputed to allow their laity an antinomian attitude toward sex, on the grounds that the body has nothing to do with the spirit anyway, and that the only real sexual evil is procreation. Some scholars apparently take this reputation with some skepticism, though, as the main witnesses for it are the Catholics who crusaded against the Albigensians. -- Mac Horton @ Intergraph | horton@ingr.COM | ..uunet!ingr!horton -- And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls'. --Eliot