Heretics : the creation of Christianity, from the Gnostics to the modern church / Jonathan Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Jonathan, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian heretics--History.

Christian heretics.

Christian heresies--History.

Christian heresies.

History.

Church history.

Physical Description:

ix, 338 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

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 ; 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 l 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780151013876

015101387X

OCLC:

651911375