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. Orl�eans ; 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 �ca 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.
Summary:
Looks at many of the famous heretics in history--from Martin Luther to John Calvin to the Libyan cleric Arius--and argues that heresy actually helped strengthen the Christian church into the powerful force it is today.
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