Discourses on Bogomilism in Early Modern Western Christianity

This article traces some largely unknown western discourses on Bogomilism starting out from the second half of the 16th century and reaching to the beginning of the 19th century. After a look at the identification of Bogomilism with Protestantism by Catholic writers of the 16th and 17th centuries and Protestant apologists who rejected this equation, the second part deals with inner-Protestant controversies between Pietists and so called “Orthodox” Lutherans. The article concludes with a look at Bogomilism in Friedrich Schellingʼs idealist philosophy.