The concept of heresy has played a significant role across Christian history. Traditionally, heretical sects have been regarded as distinct, real-life groups of people who had departed from the stable orthodox traditions of Christianity, and who posed a threat that needed to be addressed, sometimes through violent repression. More recently, scholarship has focused on the notion of heresy as discourse, placing particular emphasis on its literary construction and the social and cultural contexts. This literature has generated significant debates about the nature and historicity of many heresies. The Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy provides a systematic and up-to-date guide to the study of this topic and its methodological challenges. Exploring different forms of written material that have played vital roles in historical disputes and in modern scholarly accounts, it includes thirteen case studies of key heresies, ranging from the Gnostics through to the Hussites at the dawn of the Reformation.
This book provides a systematic guide to the study of Christian heresy. Exploring different forms of written material that have played vital roles in historical disputes and in modern scholarly accounts, it includes thirteen case studies of key heresies, ranging from the Gnostics through to the Hussites at the dawn of the Reformation.
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This book explores the concept of heresy in Christian history from its beginnings through to the dawn of the Reformation.
Introduction Richard Flower; Part I. Approaches and Evidence:
1.
Theories and definitions of heresy John H. Arnold;
2. Dialogue literature
Richard Lim;
3. Heresiological catalogues Richard Flower;
4. Councils, popes
and canon law Rebecca Rist;
5. Inquisition and trial records Christine
Caldwell Ames; Part II. Case Studies:
6. Gnosticism Michael A. Williams;
7.
Manichaeism Jason BeDuhn;
8. Arianism and other Christological disputes Robin
Whelan;
9. Pelagius Ali Bonner;
10. The Nestorian controversy: dyophysites,
monophysites and miaphysites J. Edward Walters;
11. Islam as a Christian
Heresy John Tolan;
12. Iconoclasm Judith Herrin;
13. Accusations of Heresy
between East and West Marie-Hélčne Blanchet and Nikolaos G. Chrissis;
14.
Bogomils Andrew P. Roach;
15. The Cathars Jörg Feuchter;
16. The Medieval
waldenses Pete Biller;
17. Wyclif, Lollards and popular heresy J. Patrick
Hornbeck II;
18. Hussite revolution and its heresies Pavlķna Rychterovį
Richard Flower is Professor of Classics and Late Antiquity at the University of Exeter. A scholar of religious conflict, he is the author of Emperors and Bishops in Late Roman Invective (2013) and co-editor (with Morwenna Ludlow) of Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity (2020).
