“A truly subversive doctrine would have required a more serious punishment than the pope’s disapproval and Amaury’s retraction. Everything suggests that the interruption in his theological career was caused rather by the hateful kind of campaign that is so often mounted in sects and universities, inspired by those who want to ruin the posthumous reputation of a thinker sufficiently original to arouse envy. In Amaury’s case this was achieved by attributing to him certain ‘coarse’ individuals as his disciples, whom the Church regarded as concerned more with Epicurism than with metaphysics.”
-The Movement of the Free Spirit
