Author: Jonathan Wright
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2011-04-27
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 0547548893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A lively examination of the heretics who helped Christianity become the world’s most powerful religion. From Arius, a fourth-century Libyan cleric who doubted the very divinity of Christ, to more successful heretics like Martin Luther and John Calvin, this book charts the history of dissent in the Christian Church. As the author traces the Church’s attempts at enforcing orthodoxy, from the days of Constantine to the modern Catholic Church’s lingering conflicts, he argues that heresy—by forcing the Church to continually refine and impose its beliefs—actually helped Christianity to blossom into one of the world’s most formidable religions. Today, all believers owe it to themselves to grapple with the questions raised by heresy. Can you be a Christian without denouncing heretics? Is it possible that new ideas challenging Church doctrine are destined to become as popular as Luther’s once-outrageous suggestions of clerical marriage and a priesthood of all believers? A delightfully readable and deeply learned new history, Heretics overturns our assumptions about the role of heresy in a faith that still shapes the world. “Wright emphasizes the ‘extraordinarily creative role’ that heresy has played in the evolution of Christianity by helping to ‘define, enliven, and complicate’ it in dialectical fashion. Among the world’s great religions, Christianity has been uniquely rich in dissent, Wright argues—especially in its early days, when there was so little agreement among its adherents that one critic compared them to a marsh full of frogs croaking in discord.” —The New Yorker
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2009-07-24
Total Pages: 57
ISBN-13: 0007338805
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.
Author: Susan Ronald
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-08-07
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0312645384
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From an acclaimed biographer, an account of Elizabeth I focusing on her role in the Wars on Religion that tore apart Europe in the 16th century.
Author: Katie Henry
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-08-07
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0062698893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year! Put an atheist in a strict Catholic school? Expect comedy, chaos, and an Inquisition. The Breakfast Club meets Saved! in debut author Katie Henry’s hilarious novel about a band of misfits who set out to challenge their school, one nun at a time. Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Robyn Schneider. When Michael walks through the doors of Catholic school, things can’t get much worse. His dad has just made the family move again, and Michael needs a friend. When a girl challenges their teacher in class, Michael thinks he might have found one, and a fellow atheist at that. Only this girl, Lucy, isn’t just Catholic . . . she wants to be a priest. Lucy introduces Michael to other St. Clare’s outcasts, and he officially joins Heretics Anonymous, where he can be an atheist, Lucy can be an outspoken feminist, Avi can be Jewish and gay, Max can wear whatever he wants, and Eden can practice paganism. Michael encourages the Heretics to go from secret society to rebels intent on exposing the school’s hypocrisies one stunt at a time. But when Michael takes one mission too far—putting the other Heretics at risk—he must decide whether to fight for his own freedom or rely on faith, whatever that means, in God, his friends, or himself.
Author: Saint Alfonso Maria de' Liguori
Publisher:
Published: 1847
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter Biller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-06-06
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521575768
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collective volume exploring connections between literacy and heresy in late medieval Europe.