Perfecti

In the sect, there was an esoteric minority called perfecti, who were supposed to obey the strict rules of an ascetic ethic; the rest were auditores, who followed, at a distance, the doctrines of the perfecti but not their rules. ❋ 345-430 (1955)

I'm sure the LibDems will be next, and some of those 'perfecti' will turn out to stench even worse. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I tink dey mean OCPD hoomin…. dey ar perfecti… perifecty… dey always want tings rait. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Estote ergo vos perfecti, sicut Pater vester caelestis perfectus est. ❋ Papabear (2008)

Note 70: Salvo Burci, fol. 106vb: Forte dicent Erretici Quare dixit dominus talium est regnum celorum si non erant perfecti. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Si talium erat regnum celorum ergo erant perfecti igitur erant de illis de quibus dicit dominus, Beati pauperes spiritum et cetera, ergo non sunt tales pueri sicut exposuisti, igitur bestia obmutesce. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But he gave his allegiance to the perfecti; by following them he entered into Christ's true communion, where alone salvation lay. ❋ GORDON LEFF (1968)

Despite their non-Christian inspiration the practical effect of these beliefs was an asceticism among the perfecti far more in accord with Christian precepts than the laxity of many of the Roman clergy. ❋ GORDON LEFF (1968)

Cathars of southern France it was expressed in the division into the elect (perfecti) and ordinary believers ❋ GORDON LEFF (1968)

Their priests (perfecti) were pledged to a distinc - tive life of austerity and spiritual ministration; they lived on alms and devoted themselves to preaching in the vernacular from the New Testament and the Fa - thers; for this they were excused from manual labor. ❋ GORDON LEFF (1968)

In the case of the Cathari, who had brought Manichaeism from the East and had captured much of society in the south of France, as well as spreading into neighboring regions, the class of austere perfecti were a reproach to the Church, while the ordinary credentes were allowed excessive license, and the whole movement could be regarded as a threat to society itself. ❋ HERBERT BUTTERFIELD (1968)

The foundation of Waldensian belief was, therefore, in its claim to direct apostolic succession, which was justified historically as we have said in the Donation of Constantine, and practically in the apostolic lives of the perfecti. ❋ GORDON LEFF (1968)

[612] An allegorical ideal type of the perfecti in the Church. ❋ 345-430 (1955)

Another Manichean term for the perfecti, the elite and "perfect" among them. ❋ 345-430 (1955)

Is this a conscious use, in a Christian context, of the distinction he had known so well among the Manicheans -- between the perfecti and the auditores? ❋ 345-430 (1955)

Nam caeterae uirtutes bonis et malis possunt esse communes; caritatem autem habere nisi perfecti non possunt. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Le Père de Mettaincourt (1645); CHAPIA, Idea boni parochi et perfecti religiosi; VUILLIMIN, La Vie de St. Pierre Fourier (Paris, 1897). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Omne enim quod inperfectum esse dicitur, id inminutione perfecti inperfectum esse perhibetur. ❋ Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (1908)

Quod si sententiae fidei fundamentis sponte firmissimae opitulante gratia diuina idonea argumentorum adiumenta praestitimus, illuc perfecti operis laetitia remeabit unde uenit effectus. ❋ Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (1908)

Quoniam igitur quae sit imperfecti, quae etiam perfecti boni forma uidisti, nunc demonstrandum reor quonam haec felicitatis perfectio constituta sit. ❋ Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (1908)