
God and the Black Death, Part 2
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Theology and Theology in Christian Europe
This was especially the overwhelming, a supernatural explanation used throughout christian europe at the time. The idea that disease may be caused by others practising magic against you. This generates ideas concerning witches and sorcerers,. but also s to all manner of othering and and persecution in response to illness. Something bad is happening to us. Illness is here. We've fallen astray, and therefore the almighty is punishing us. And this kind of gets down to a lot of ground level folkloric er ideas, the idea that witchcraft and magic were involved.
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