Jacob Sprenger

Demonology is the systematic study of demons. Insofar as it involves exegesis, demonology is an orthodox branch of theology. Demonology - Christian demonology. The most extensive exposition of Christian demonology are Heinrich Kramer's Malleus Maleficarum—once thought to have been co-written by Jacob Sprenger— and Nicholas Remy's Demonolatry, both assuming the reality of witchcraft and its capability of posing a threat to the Roman Catholic church. Demonology refers to catalogues that atte ...

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• Demonology - Islam Judaism and Zoroastrianism
• Demonology - Ayyavazhi Buddhism and Hinduism
• Demonology - Tartaric Demonology

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1484 - Events. January 25 - Peter Arbues, chief of the Spanish Inquisition, is assassinated when he is praying in the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain July 6 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River December 5 - Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany with the lead of Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger The first sugar mill becomes operational in the Gran Canaria First cuirassier units (ky ...

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Lust in demons is a controversial theme for Christian demonology. As usual, scholars disagree on the subject. On one hand, it is considered that demons can feel sexual desire, experience pleasure, fall in love, be jealous and passionate, hate, and lust is an inherent quality of their nature. On the other hand, other demonologists consider that demons cannot feel desire or love, less jealousy or passion, and use lust as a means to induce people to sin. Augustine of Hippo (5th century), Hincmar (early French theologian, archbisho ...

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Christian theology derives its sources from the teachings and actions of Jesus as codified in the New Testament, as well as the Old Testament and several other sources depending of the Christian denomination. This makes the Bible, especially the canonical Gospels, the primary source in order to classify persecution by Christians as either religiously motivated persecution or ethnic persecution. Some churches, such as the Roman Catholic Church, give weight to oral tradition. Historical persecution by Christians - ...

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The most extensive exposition of Christian demonology are Heinrich Kramer's Malleus Maleficarum—once thought to have been co-written by Jacob Sprenger— and Nicholas Remy's Demonolatry, both assuming the reality of witchcraft and its capability of posing a threat to the Roman Catholic church. Demonology refers to catalogues that attempt to name and set a hierarchy to demons and spirits thought to be malignant. In this sense, demonology can be seen as the mirror image of angelology, which attempt ...

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Demonology, Demonology - Christian demonology, Demonology - Islam Judaism and Zoroastrianism, Demonology - Ayyavazhi Buddhism and Hinduism, Demonology - Tartaric Demonology

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Historical persecution by Christians - Canada. Under pressure from the Roman Catholic church, the government of Quebec withheld the vote from women until the mid 1940s. During 1995-1998 Newfoundland had only Christian schools (four of them, Pentecostal, Roman Catholic, Seventh Day Adventist, and inter-denominational (Anglican, Salvation Army and United Church)). The right to organize publicly supported religious schools was only given to certain Christian denominations, thus tax money used to support a selected g ...

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To Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Jews there were male and female demons (Jewish demons were mostly male, but Lilith was female). In Christian demonology and theology, although the belief in incubi and succubi is accepted, the matter of the sexuality of the demons is not so easy. Gregory of Nyssa (4th century), as well as Ludovico Maria Sinistrari (17th century), believed in male and female demons. Authors who believed in demons of opposite sex assigned them a heterosexual tendency, even adult men seducing adolescent boys by means of pederasty; the only de ...

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Sexuality in Christian demonology, Sexuality in Christian demonology - The sexuality of demons, Sexuality in Christian demonology - Lust in demons, Sexuality in Christian demonology - Demons and sexual relations

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Conflict between Christian factions reached its height following the Reformation, as Protestants and Catholics struggled for control of territories in Western Europe. Catholic authorities persecuted Protestants in a number of jurisdictions, the most notorious being the 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, when the French king ordered the murder of all Protestants in France. Outbreaks against Catholics also occurred in Protestant countries, leading to endemic conflicts in some areas, such as Ireland, where the British government imported Pro ...

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With the full Christianization of Europe Paganism all but disappeared from the Western world for two reasons: the relentless persecution by Christians and, possibly, the assimilation of some pagans and subsequently their ideas into Christianity. The process of Christianization was long and complex, involving conflicts between peoples that were partly fuelled by religious differences, and partly by inter-ethnic power struggles. Both Christians and Pagans suffered during this period. Sometimes conversions were peaceful and assimilative, other times they were more coercive.See also:

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The existence of a malevolent supernatural personality who works to thwart the will of a good God is a central tenet of both Christianity and Islam. These faiths, in turn, derive the Satan or Shaitan figure from Judaism. Many scholars believe that Judaism originally received the concepts of eschatology, angelology, and demonology from Zoroastrianism. In the Zoroastrian tradition, Ahura Mazda, as the force of good Spenta Mainyu, will eventually be victorious in a cos ...

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When Constantine became the sole Roman Emperor in 323, Christianity became the official religion of the empire. Religion and state now intertwined, the early Roman Church with full official backing, turned to the pagans and began to persecute them. After the death of Constantine in 337, two of his sons, Constantius and Constans took over the leadership of the empire. Constans, ruler of the western provinces, was, like his father, a Christian. In 341, he decreed that all pagan worship and sacrifice should cease; warning those who still persis ...

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The conflict between the Orthodox and Arian versions of Christianity was one of the causes of conflict between Christian peoples, in particular Vatican supported assaults on the kingdoms of the Arian Vandals and Goths. Muscovy and Imperial Russia government forcibly baptized as Muslim Volga Tatars as pagan Chuvash, Mordva and Mari after the conquest of Kazan Khanate and Astrakhan Khanate in 1550s. Mosques and mahall ...

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In fully Christian Europe there were a number of persecutions directed against Jews and Christian heretics. The Crusades, launched against the Muslim middle-east to "liberate" Jerusalem, have also been interpreted by some as an example of religious persecution. Certainly there were massacres of Muslims and Jews when Jerusalem was taken by Crusaders in 1099. Raymond d'Aguiliers, chaplain to Raymond de Saint-Gilles, Count of Toulouse, wrote: Piles of heads, hands, and feet were to be seen in the streets of the city. It was necessa ...

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