| Description |
ix, 338 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The heretics -- The invention of heresy. Ignatius ; Marcion and Gnosticism ; The Montanists ; Blunting the challenges: Christian unity ; Persecution ; The Church -- Constantine, Augustine, and the criminalization of heresy. The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus ; Constantine ; Who was Christ? ; Donatism ; Augustine ; Whence and whiter? -- The heresy gap. Heresy redivivus ; Iconoclasm -- Medieval heresy I. Orléans, 1022 ; Popular heresy ; Valdes ; Popular heresy: reality ; Popular heresy: myth ; The Cathars -- Medieval heresy II. Francis ; Where to draw the lines? ; The Beguines ; All the others ; Hus ; The fabled road to the Reformation -- Reformations. The revolution ; The Reformation muddle ; The other reformation ; Reformation certainty ; The new heresies ; Drowned without mercy: Anabaptists ; Servetus ; Plus ça change? -- The death of heresy? Caution ; Pragmatism ; The Great Leap -- American heresy. New England ; Hutchinson ; Williams ; Quakers ; Revolutions great and small ; Jefferson and Madison ; The Republic -- The polite centuries. Emerson and Parker ; The sum of all heresies. |
| Summary |
Looks at many of the famous heretics in history--from Martin Luther to John Calvin to the Libyan cleric Arius--and argues that heresy actually helped strengthen the Christian church into the powerful force it is today. |
| Subject |
Christian heretics -- History.
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Christian heresies -- History.
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Church history.
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Christian heresies. (OCoLC)fst01727964
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Christian heretics. (OCoLC)fst01727965
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Church history. (OCoLC)fst00860740
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Christian heresies -- History.
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Church history.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780151013876 |
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015101387X |
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