A History of Heresy (Oxford Paperbacks) - Softcover

Christie-Murray, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192852108 ISBN 13: 9780192852106

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1989

Synopsis

With the changes in Christian orthodoxy over the centuries, the term heretic has come to hold a wide range of meanings. Society condemned the first Christians, themselves, as heretics because they defied the doctrines of Judaism. Focusing specifically on Christian heresy, David Christie-Murray's cogent and lucid study surveys minority believers from the early Judaizers, who believed that salvation depended purely on the observation of Christian versions of "the law," through Gnosticism, Montanism, Monarchianism, Arianism, Apollinarianism, Nestorianism, Pelagianism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, and other movements and minorities, to the bewildering variety of heresies in the twentieth century.
Based on extensive scholarship, and yet compulsively readable, Christie-Murray's book explains the differences between different shades of Christian thought, and also provides an exciting, continuous narrative of the development of Christianity through the ages.

About this title

About the Author:

About the Author:
David Christie-Murray was educated at the universities of London and Oxford and at Wyclif Hall, Oxford. He was ordained, but after 27 years he resigned orders, having moved, theologically, from the Anglican position towards that of the Society of Friends.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0192852108
• ISBN 13: 9780192852106
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256