[PDF] The Encyclopedia Of Heresies And Heretics eBook

Author : Leonard George
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Christian heresies
ISBN : 9780860519881

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This book contains a collection of over 600 of the ideas, people, and practices that, over the centuries, have been judged by the arbiters of religious orthodoxy to be too dangerous for laypeople to know about.

Author : Chas Clifton
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 1992-12
Category : History
ISBN :

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Substantial articles about movements and leaders condemned by the Catholic Church, and some of the people who did the condemning, torturing, and burning. Does not cover, for example, the radical sects of the 1640s in England, or the major Protestant reformers who were condemned in their time. Includes many reproductions of medieval illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Leonard George
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :

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Combines scholarship with humor, history with speculation, and philosophy with anecdote...Fascinating. -- Stanley Krippner

Author : Léon Cristiani
Publisher : New York : Hawthorn Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Christian heresies
ISBN :

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What is a heretic? What were the heresies in the long and varied history of Christianity? The author answers these questions by describing the heresies that developed from the divisions, breaches of unity and divergencies of opinion about the meaning of Christianity's message. Heresies arise from the diversity of minds, from personality, from temperament and ultimately from the fact of human freedom.

Author : G. R. Evans
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 047077682X

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This short and accessible book introduces readers to the problems of heresy, schism and dissidence over the last two millennia. The heresies under discussion range from Gnosticism, influential in the early Christian period, right through to modern sects. The idea of a heretic conjures up many images, from the martyrs prepared to die for their beliefs, through to sects with bizarre practices. This book provides a remarkable insight into the fraught history of heresy, showing how the Church came to insist on orthodoxy when threatened by alternative ideals, exploring the social and political conditions under which heretics were created, and how those involved were 'tested' and punished, often by imprisonment and burning. Engaging written, A Brief History of Heresy is enlivened throughout with fascinating examples of individuals and movements. A short, accessible history of heresy. Spans the last two millennia, from the Gnostics through to modern sects. Considers heresy in relation to ecclesial separatism, doctrinal disagreement, church order, and basic metaphysics. Enlivened with intriguing examples of individuals and movements. Written by a leading academic in the field of Religious History.

Author : Bill Missett
Publisher : Author House
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 2005-10-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1438906919

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Author : Jonathan Wright
Publisher : HMH
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0547548893

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A lively examination of the heretics who helped Christianity become the world’s most powerful religion. From Arius, a fourth-century Libyan cleric who doubted the very divinity of Christ, to more successful heretics like Martin Luther and John Calvin, this book charts the history of dissent in the Christian Church. As the author traces the Church’s attempts at enforcing orthodoxy, from the days of Constantine to the modern Catholic Church’s lingering conflicts, he argues that heresy—by forcing the Church to continually refine and impose its beliefs—actually helped Christianity to blossom into one of the world’s most formidable religions. Today, all believers owe it to themselves to grapple with the questions raised by heresy. Can you be a Christian without denouncing heretics? Is it possible that new ideas challenging Church doctrine are destined to become as popular as Luther’s once-outrageous suggestions of clerical marriage and a priesthood of all believers? A delightfully readable and deeply learned new history, Heretics overturns our assumptions about the role of heresy in a faith that still shapes the world. “Wright emphasizes the ‘extraordinarily creative role’ that heresy has played in the evolution of Christianity by helping to ‘define, enliven, and complicate’ it in dialectical fashion. Among the world’s great religions, Christianity has been uniquely rich in dissent, Wright argues—especially in its early days, when there was so little agreement among its adherents that one critic compared them to a marsh full of frogs croaking in discord.” —The New Yorker