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Heresy studies is a new interdisciplinary, supra-religious, and humanist field of study that focuses on borderlands of dogma, probes the intersections between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and explores the realms of dissent in religion, art, and literature. Free from confessional agendas and tolerant of both religious and non-religious perspectives, heresy studies fulfill an important gap in scholarly inquiry and artistic production. Divided into four parts, the volume explores intersections between heresy and modern literature, it discusses intricacies of medieval heresies, it analyzes issues of heresy in contemporary theology, and it demonstrates how heresy operates as an artistic stimulant. Rather than treating matters of heresy, blasphemy, unbelief, dissent, and non-conformism as subjects to be shunned or naively championed, the essays in this collection chart a middle course, energized by the dynamics of heterodoxy, dissent, and provocation, yet shining a critical light on both the challenges and the revelations of disruptive kinds of thinking and acting.

234.272.1 --- 273 --- 82:2 --- 82:2 Literatuur en godsdienst --- Literatuur en godsdienst --- 273 Heresies et schismes --- 273 Schisma's. Ketterijen --- Heresies et schismes --- Schisma's. Ketterijen --- 234.272.1 Zonden tegen het geloof: ketterij --- Zonden tegen het geloof: ketterij --- Blasphemy. --- Dissensi. --- Freedom of speech --- Libel and slander --- Offenses against religion

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This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft. It sets aside constructed chronological boundaries, and in doing so aims to achieve a clearer picture of what ‘went before’, as well as what ‘came after’. Thus the volume demonstrates continuity as well as change in the concepts and understandings of magic, heresy and witchcraft. In addition, the geographical pattern of similarities and diversities suggests a comparative approach, transcending confessional as well as national borders. Throughout the medieval and early modern period, the orthodoxy of the Christian Church was continuously contested. The challenge of heterodoxy, especially as expressed in various kinds of heresy, magic and witchcraft, was constantly present during the period 1200-1650. Neither contesters nor followers of orthodoxy were homogeneous groups or fractions. They themselves and their ideas changed from one century to the next, from region to region, even from city to city, but within a common framework of interpretation. This collection of essays focuses on this complex. .

273 "04/14" --- 273 "04/14" Heresies et schismes--Middeleeuwen --- 273 "04/14" Schisma's. Ketterijen--Middeleeuwen --- Heresies et schismes--Middeleeuwen --- Schisma's. Ketterijen--Middeleeuwen --- Europe-History-1492-. --- Europe-History-476-1492. --- Religion-History. --- Social history. --- Civilization-History. --- History of Early Modern Europe. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- History of Religion. --- Social History. --- Cultural History. --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Europe—History—1492-. --- Europe—History—476-1492. --- Religion—History. --- Civilization—History. --- Europe --- Religion --- Civilization --- Cultural history --- Religious history --- Gay culture Europe --- 1492-. --- 476-1492. --- History.

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The book illuminates “the other side” of early Christianity by examining thinkers and movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers as legitimate forms of Christianity, but which are now largely forgotten, or are known only from the characteristics attributed to them in the writings of their main adversaries. The collection deals with the following teachers and movements: Basilides, Sethianism, Valentinus’ school, Marcion, Tatian, Bardaisan, Montanists, Cerinthus, Ebionites, Nazarenes, Jewish-Christianity of the Pseudo-Clementines , and Elchasites. Where appropriate, the authors have included an overview of the life and significant publications of the “heretics,” along with a description of their theologies and movements. Therefore, this volume can serve as a handbook of the second-century “heretics” and their “heresies.” Since all the chapters have been written by specialists who wrestle daily with their research themes, the contributions also offer new perspectives and insights stimulating further discussion on this fascinating—but often neglected—side of early Christianity.

Heresies, Christian. --- Heretics, Christian --- Church history --- Christian heresies. --- Christian heretics --- Christian heresies --- Heresies [Christian ] --- Heresies and heretics --- Hérésies chrétiennes --- Ketterijen [Christelijke ] --- 273 "00/04" --- Schisma's. Ketterijen--?"00/04" --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Heretics --- Heresies, Christian --- Heresy --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Christian sects --- Christian heretics. --- Heterodoxe stromingen. --- Hérésies chrétiennes. --- Hérétiques chrétiens --- Ketters. --- RELIGION --- Vroege kerk. --- Église --- Primitive and early church. --- History. --- Histoire --- 30-600. --- Heretics [Christian] --- Biography --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- 30 - 600 --- Early Church Period --- Primitive and Early Church Period --- Heretics, Christian - Biography. --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

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Under the broad umbrella of the Christian religion, there exists a great divide between two fundamentally different ways of thinking about key aspects of the Christian faith. Eugene Webb explores the sources of that divide, looking at how the Eastern and Western Christian worlds drifted apart due both to the different ways they interpreted their symbols and to the different roles political power played in their histories. Previous studies have focused on historical events or on the history of theological ideas. In Search of the Triune God delves deeper by exploring how the Christian East and the Christian West have conceived the relation between symbol and experience. Webb demonstrates that whereas for Western Christianity discussion of the doctrine of the Trinity has tended toward speculation about the internal structure of the Godhead, in the Eastern tradition the symbolism of the Triune God has always been closely connected to religious experience. In their approaches to theology, Western Christianity has tended toward a speculative theology, and Eastern Christianity toward a mystical theology. This difference of focus has led to a large range of fundamental differences in many areas not only of theology but also of religious life. Webb traces the history of the pertinent symbols (God as Father, Son of God, Spirit of God, Messiah, King, etc.) from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament through patristic thinkers and the councils that eventually defined orthodoxy. In addition, he shows how the symbols, interpreted through the different cultural lenses of the East and the West, gradually took on meanings that became the material of very different worldviews, especially as the respective histories of the Eastern and Western Christian worlds led them into different kinds of entanglement with ambition and power. Through this incisive exploration, Webb offers a dramatic and provocative new picture of the history of Christianity.

Church history --- Schism --- God (Christianity) --- Trinity --- Eastern Schism --- Great Schism --- Greco-Roman Schism --- Christianity --- Eastern and Western Church. --- History of doctrines. --- History of doctrines --- Greek and Latin Church --- Latin and Greek Church --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Catholic Church --- Doctrines --- History. --- Relations --- Orthodox Eastern Church. --- Catholic Church. --- 231.01 --- 23 <09> --- 273 <09> --- 231.01 Drieëenheid. Drievuldigheid --- Drieëenheid. Drievuldigheid --- Dogmengeschichte. Geschiedenis van het dogma --- Schisma's. Ketterijen--Geschiedenis van .. --- Trinity. --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Triads (Philosophy) --- Appropriation (Christian theology) --- Godhead (Mormon theology) --- Holy Spirit --- Trinities --- Tritheism --- Schisma's. Ketterijen--Geschiedenis van . --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Schisma's. Ketterijen--Geschiedenis van

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While it has often been recognised that the development of Christian orthodoxy was stimulated by the speculations of those who are now called heretics, it is still widely assumed that their contribution was merely catalytic, that they called forth the exposition of what the main church already believed but had not yet been required to formulate. This book maintains that scholars have underrated the constructive role of these "heretical" speculations in the evolution of dogma, showing that salient elements in the doctrines of the fall, the Trinity and the union of God and man in Christ derive from teachings that were initially rejected by the main church. Mark Edwards also reveals how authors who epitomised orthodoxy in their own day sometimes favoured teachings which were later considered heterodox, and that their doctrines underwent radical revision before they became a fixed element of orthodoxy. The first half of the volume discusses the role of Gnostic theologians in the formation of catholic thought; the second half will offer an unfashionable view of the controversies which gave rise to the councils of Nicaea, Ephesus and Chalcedon . Many of the theories advanced here have not been broached elsewhere, and no synthesis on this scale had been attempted by other scholars. While this book proposes a revision in the scholarly perception of early Christendom, it also demonstrates the essential unity of the tradition.

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