Interrogatio Johannis

The Interrogatio Johannis or The Secret Last Supper is a New Testament apocryphon that claims to reproduce a confidential conversation between the Apostle John and Jesus during the Last Supper. It denies that the world was created by God and attributes the creation to Satan. Theological the work is strongly influenced by Bogomil , whereby older apocryphal materials have also been incorporated. This teaching probably has its roots in the Gnostic idea of the demiurge and is related to the theodicy problem. Christians are disciples of John the Baptist , but baptism is useless. Like the Mosaic Laws, the duty of sacrifice is commanded by Satan . One of the characteristics of this scripture is that it puts quotes from the Old Testament that God speaks there in Satan's mouth.

The writing can be found as evidence in the Inquisition files of Carcassonne . An added note says that the Catholic Bishop Nazarius brought this work from Bulgaria to southern France in 1190 . The font in its Latin form was not created before the 12th century .

literature

Edina Bozóky: Le livre secret des cathares = Interrogatio Iohannis / éd. critique, trad., commentaire par Edina Bozóky . Beauchesne, Paris 2009. ( Table of Contents )

Individual evidence

↑ E. Bozóky: Le Livre Secret des Cathares Interrogatio Johannis, Apocryphal d'origine Bogomile. Paris, 1980. Quoted from: Eliade, Mircea: History of Religious Ideas, Volume III / 1. Freiburg: Herder, 1983, p. 177.
↑ Author unknown: Interrogatio Iohannis and Apokryphon des Johannes . Ed .: MP Steiner. 1st edition. Edition Oriflamme, Basel 2019, ISBN 978-3-907103-05-0 , pp. 254 (Also available as an e-book and in English; with an introduction: The Birth of Christianity and Its Significance in the 21st Century).
^ Gilles Quispel , Johannes Oort: Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica. Collected essays of Gilles Quispel . 2008, p. 11; "The Interrogatio Johannis, one of the few authentic sources about the Cathars, which does not come from the inquisitors of the Roman Church, has the same form and the same content as the Apocryphon of John ."

[1] E. Bozóky: Le Livre Secret des Cathares Interrogatio Johannis, Apocryphal d'origine Bogomile. Paris, 1980. Quoted from: Eliade, Mircea: History of Religious Ideas, Volume III / 1. Freiburg: Herder, 1983, p. 177.

[2] Author unknown: Interrogatio Iohannis and Apokryphon des Johannes . Ed .: MP Steiner. 1st edition. Edition Oriflamme, Basel 2019, ISBN 978-3-907103-05-0 , pp. 254 (Also available as an e-book and in English; with an introduction: The Birth of Christianity and Its Significance in the 21st Century).

[3] Gilles Quispel , Johannes Oort: Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica. Collected essays of Gilles Quispel . 2008, p. 11; "The Interrogatio Johannis, one of the few authentic sources about the Cathars, which does not come from the inquisitors of the Roman Church, has the same form and the same content as the Apocryphon of John ."