TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wright,Jonathan
TI  - Heretics: the creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the modern church 
SN  - 015101387X
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
KW  - Christian heresies
KW  - History
KW  - Christian heretics
KW  - Church history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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. Orléans ; 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 ça 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
N2  - 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
ER  -