A brief history of heresy / / G.R. Evans

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813504203321
• Autore: Evans G. R (Gillian Rosemary)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2003
• ISBN: 9780470776049; 047077682X; 9780470776827
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xvi, 195 p. : ill
• Collana: Blackwell brief histories of religion
• Disciplina: 273.09
• Soggetti: Heresy - History; Offenses against religion - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-185) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "A clear and elegant book." The Guardian "What Gill Evans's lively and accessible study shows is that if the Church today is to proceed towards a unity truly based upon Christ, we need to distinguish between desirably dissident 'whistle-blowers' where the official Church has gotten out of step with its founder, and those voices of dissidence which, on examination, prove clearly contrary to the teaching of Christ. This is accordingly a timely as well as entertaining book, a distillation of wide learning designed for the intelligent common reader." David Lyle Jeffrey, Baylor University "It is an excellent survey of heresy throughout the church's history. Those who read for information and insight will be abundantly rewarded." Ashland Theological Journal.