History and heresy : how historical forces can create doctrinal conflicts / Joseph F. Kelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, Joseph F. (Joseph Francis), 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian heresies--History.

Christian heresies.

History.

History--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Physical Description:

xi, 215 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, [2012]

Summary:

God is beyond time, but every person is firmly planted in it. History impacts us endlessly, including the ways we understand the church and its teachings. This has been the case since the time of the earliest believers.

In History and Heresy, Joseph F. Kelly considers heresies and the historical forces that shaped them. In his customarily engaging style, he demonstrates that historical forces and human beings of particular historical eras play a major role in how both orthodoxy and heresy come into being and how they are understood. Far from reducing orthodoxy and heresy to historical forces, he shows rather that a grasp of the historical context of both is essential in understanding them and especially in determining what might be orthodox or heretical. Book jacket.

Contents:

Defining heresy and authority

Montanism

Monophysitism

The Cathars

Roman Catholic modernism

Protestant modernism and fundamentalism

Dealing with heresy today.

Notes:

"A Michael Glazier book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814656952

0814656951

9780814659991

0814659993

OCLC:

759177193