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The Spanish Inquisition was independent of the medieval Inquisition. It was established (1478) by Ferdinand and Isabella with the reluctant approval of Sixtus IV. One of the first and most notorious heads was Tomas de Torquemada.
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The Spanish Inquisition was used for both political and religious reasons. Spain is a nation-state that was born out of religious struggle between numerous different belief systems including Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism and Judaism.
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The Spanish Inquisition ... The Spanish Christians (Christianity was the most widespread faith) were outraged at the Jews for a variety of reasons, most of them religious, and saw the Spanish Inquisition as a means of controlling the Jewish population, removing the actual source of the problem.
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In 1478 King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile agreed with Pope Sixtus IV to begin the Spanish Inquisition. ... Chief among the cause of the Inquisition was the envy and hatred of the Jews in Spain. Anti-Semitism started in Spain for many reasons. First, Jews had become prominent in their communities and...
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The killed many Jews, but after the three-hundred and fifty year period of the Inquisitionwas over, many thousands of practicing Jews were still living in Spain. Aside from religious reasons, there were also some very strong political reasons for the Spanish Inquisition.
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The Spanish Inquisition is a popular topic among Skeptics who pair it with the Crusades as an example of how Christianity has ruined Western culture. Is this an overplayed issue, or a serious problem for the Christian faith? ... Eventually different forms of the Inquisition grew up in different places for different reasons.
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An inquisition is a special Church institution for suppressing heresy. To understand inquisitions, you must first understand two important facts. ... How little we are to trust the vaunted impartiality of Henry Charles Lee, the American historian of the Inquisition, we may here illustrate by an example. In his "History of...
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In addition to the questions referred by the Spanish court, some related matters will be discussed where it is considered there is a variance between the Directive and the British Regulations, or where there is scope for interpretative differences.
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Reason for the founding of the Spanish Inquisition ... Later, the Spanish Inquisition also turned its attention to heresy, challenging the authority of the Catholic Church and disrespect for the Inquisition itself. ... In what month did the spanish inquisition begin? What two reasons caused the Spanish Inquisition?
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