Bogomilist

English

Noun

Bogomilist (plural Bogomilists)

1. (history, religion) An adherent of Bogomilism; a Bogomil.
   • 2002, Abul-Fazl Ezzati, The Spread of Islam: The Contributing Factors, Revised edition, page 435:

     Bogomilists rejected the divinity of Jesus, the worship of images, baptism, the ornamentation of churches, etc.

   • 2002, Vladimir Dimitrov, Bob Hodge, Social Fuzziology: Study of Fuzziness of Social Complexity, page 148:

     Persecution by Christians seemed to exterminate it from Europe by the 7th century AD, but offshoots of it kept springing to the surface, in the Bogomilists of Bulgaria in the 10th century and most famously in the Albigensians or 'Kathars' of Albi, in the south of France, […] .

   • 2015, Shaul Magid, “Chapter 6: The Case of Jewish Arianism: The Pre-existence of the Zaddik in Early Hasidism”, in Brian Ogren, editor, Time and Eternity in Jewish Mysticism, page 100:

     […] existed among the many Christian Gnostics, Cathars, Bogomilists, and other forms of Christianity that were influenced by Origen on this question.

Adjective

Bogomilist

1. (history, religion) Of, pertaining to or adhering to Bogomilism.
   • 1964, Stanko Guldescu, History of Medieval Croatia, page 256:

     But the uniquely disastrous effect of Catholic policy in causing a schism between Bogomilist Bosnia and Catholic Croatia soon was to manifest itself in the fight over Tvrdko's inheritance.

   • 2006, Christopher K. Coffman, 5: Bogomilism, Orphism, Shamanism: The Physical and Spatial Grounds of Pynchon's Ecological Ethic, Jeffrey Severs, Christopher Leise, Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide, page 103,

     More specifically, Pynchon's characterization of the sect reveals a point of essential compatibility, one in which Cyprian's Bogomilist suspension of belief in the doctrine of a final judgment can be viewed as complementary to Orphism's rejection of an ultimate eschatological scene.

   • 2009, Jay Stevenson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vampires, page 92:

     It seems likely though, that something of the Manichean and Bogomilist attitude toward dead bodies enters into the picture.