A Brief History of Heresy.

Intro -- A Brief History of Heresy -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 The Importance of Being United -- Forming Consensus -- The Papacy -- The Bible in the Hands of Heretics -- Areas Where Disagreement May be Allowed -- 2 The Boundaries of Orthodoxy: Faith -- The Apostles' Creed -- The Nicene Creed -- Catechesis -- Misdirected Worship and Taking the Name of God in Vain -- Does the Faith 'Develop' Through History? -- The Content of the Creeds and the Question of Orthodoxy -- 3 The Boundaries of Orthodoxy: Order -- 'Disorder' at the Wild Fringes -- Orderliness -- Ministry and Order -- The Rigorist Dispute -- Schismatics -- Diaspora -- Orthopraxis -- 4 Classifying Heresies -- What Could be Imported from Ancient Philosophy? -- Incarnation and Christology -- The Augustinian Trio -- The Easter Controversy -- The Doctrine of Transubstantiation -- 1054 and the Schism of East and West -- From Sect to 'Confessional Identity' -- The Power of a Name -- Categories of Unbelief -- Pinning Accusations to Suspected Heretics -- The Creation of a Critical Literature -- 5 Heresy and Social Challenge -- Popular Heresy: The Anti-establishment Dissidents Speak up for Themselves -- The Road to Dissent -- The Waldensians -- John Wyclif and the Lollard Movement -- Jan Hus -- The Hussite 'Movement' -- Social Consequences After the Middle Ages -- 6 Good and Evil -- The Mediaeval Dualists -- 7 Dealing with Heresy -- University Sermons -- The Preaching of the Heretics Themselves -- Crusade -- Inquisition -- The Change in the Balance of Power -- Living with Difference -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index.

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