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Heretics : the creation of Christianity, from the Gnostics to the modern church / Jonathan Wright.
Van Pelt Library BT1315.3 .W75 2011
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- 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
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