Bogomism – Social and religious dualistic learning and movement in the period between ⅹ and ⅹⅴ century, penetrated from Macedonia’s space and expanded through Byzantium and other South Slavic environments. Named after the founder Pop Bogomil. His protagonists were called Bogomili. The testimonies of his ideological and religious peculiarity are in Bogomil and antibogomile literary texts, which originate from three basic sources: Slavic, Byzantine-Greek and Latin. In Byzantium there were no favorable conditions for heretical manifested after the defeat of iconoclasting and the inflicting of antilathic confrontations. The Kirilometodiev’s tradition was established and the spread of Slavic civilization awareness has already begun to receive antivisantic character. This conditioned in Macedonia Bogomilism is equally turned against the Byzantine rule and against the Orthodox Church, considered as an instrument of the state. The antibogomic spiritual and political ideology of Byzantium became a useful tool for Can-Roth Samuel to include the Bogomili in his spiritual strategy against the centralized Byzantine protectorate on Hristobogomi preaches the Yian church. With the same motive, the Bogomils participated in the two Macedonian antivisantic uprisings of Petar Dnean of 1040/41 and Gjorgji Voyenh from 1072. In the period of the second Byzantine Empire (1261-1453), Bogomity had an impact on the spiritual and cultural life, complied with the newly emerging design tendencies. The ideology of the Bogomil heres has emerged from the experiences of older dualistic teachings: Gnosticism, Manishea, Macilization and Pavolicity, and her dualistic ontology relied on two basic principles – good (God) and the bad. The main objectives of Christianity were referred to the church institution, which they thought there was nothing in common with the specific Christian eclosy. There has been a critical attitude towards the worship services and church rites, the immorality of the clergy and their false mediation between believers and God, the act of baptism, communion, respect for the cross and icons, holy relics, the resurrection of the dead, celebration of holidays, etc. All this testifies that the Bogomils denied the overall worship, patristic and preach-instructive literature, and created original Bogomil literature. Therefore, as an antibogomic literary composition, among which the work of the presbyter Kozma “Swedness against the Bogomils were most popular. Bogomil texts, such as creations of persecuted ideology, were concealed as folk or apocryphal. Lit.: Bogomilism in the Balkans in the light of the latest research, Skopje, 1982; M. Angelovska-Panova, Bogomilism in the spiritual culture of Macedonia, Skopje, 2004; D. Dragojlovic and V. Antic, Bogomilism in medieval original lumber, Skopje, 1978; I. Velev, Byzantine-Macedonian literary ties, Skopje, 2005. I. Well.
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