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THE. ADAMITES: TOPOI - FICTION - REALITY?

Publication at Hussite Theological Faculty |
2021

Abstract

The problem of the existence of Hussite Adamites has plagued researchers for three centuries and will probably plague for a long time to come. The reason is definitely not the lack of reports on the activities of the sect, which attracted attention during 1421, but their credibility.

Passionate disputes, the sexual presence, especially the religious question, whether Adam actually cultivated ritual nudism, negated marriage and reveled in free relations, or fictional slander to discredit members of the group, completely denying Christ in the sacrament of the altar and refusing to respect the sovereign function of the priest. The questioning of one of the central doctrines of dogma and the destruction of the basic model on which Christian society was based, which considered both Catholics and the vast majority of Hussites to be extremely dangerous heresies.