Heretics
Subtitle: the creation of Christianity, from the Gnostics to the modern church
By: Jonathan Wright
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780151013876
Subjects: History; Christian heresies; Christian heretics; Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-322) and index.
Table of contents: title: The heretics; title: The invention of heresy. Ignatius ; Marcion and Gnosticism ; The Montanists ; Blunting the challenges : Christian unity ; Persecution ; The Church; title: Constantine, Augustine, and the criminalization of heresy. The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus ; Constantine ; Who was Christ? ; Donatism ; Augustine ; Whence and whiter?; title: The heresy gap. Heresy redivivus ; Iconoclasm; title: Medieval heresy I. Orléans ; Popular heresy ; Valdes ; Popular heresy : reality ; Popular heresy : myth ; The Cathars; title: Medieval heresy II. Francis ; Where to draw the lines? ; The Beguines ; All the others ; Hus ; The fabled road to the Reformation; title: Reformations. The revolution ; The Reformation muddle ; The other reformation ; Reformation certainty ; The new heresies ; Drowned without mercy : Anabaptists ; Servetus ; Plus ça change?; title: The death of heresy? Caution ; Pragmatism l The Great Leap; title: American heresy. New England ; Hutchinson ; Williams ; Quakers ; Revolutions great and small ; Jefferson and Madison ; The Republic; title: The polite centuries. Emerson and Parker ; The sum of all heresies.