The Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism Heresies and Heretics
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Heresy
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Publication Year
1963
Publisher
Volume
136
Pages
141
Description
What is a heretic? What were the heresies in the long and varied history of Christianity? The author has answered these questions by describing the heresies that developed from the divisions, breaches of unity, and divergencies of opinion about the meaning of Christianity's message. Heresy arises, the author believes, "from the diversity of minds, from personality, from temperament and ultimately, from the fact of human freedom."
Christianity had hardly proclaimed its message initially when the Judaizers and the earliest Gnostics proposed their selective interpretation of its meaning. Variouis theories on the divinity of Christ, the Trinity and the Incarnation gave rise to the early heresies.
The author gives us an excellent exposition on the Middle Ages with their special problems and inevitably, their heresies.
A more detailed account is given of the events and theories that constituted what is called the Protestant Revolt, with the basic facts and doctrines concerning Luther, Zwingli, Calvin and Anglicanism.
The final chapter is a discussion on the contemporary ecumenical movement, its aims, and its achievements thus far.
The author, Leon Cristiani, was born in 1879 in Escurolles, France. He studied at the Grand Seminaire de Mouins and the Seminaire Francais of Rome. He received his doctorate from the Clermont-Ferrand University in 1911, writing a thesis on The Evolution of Luther from 1517 to 1528. He taught at the Grand Seminaire of Moulins (1903-1914) and at the Catholic Faculte de Lyons (1919-1947) where he became Dean of the Faculte des Lettres (1926-1947). He has written many books on religion and heresy. He has also written under the pen name Nicolas Corte, including Who is the Devil?, Vol. 21, and The Origin of Man, Vol. 29, in this series.
Roderick Bright translated Heresies and Heretics from the French.
This is Volume 136 under section XIV: Outside the Church.
Taken from the inside flaps.
Christianity had hardly proclaimed its message initially when the Judaizers and the earliest Gnostics proposed their selective interpretation of its meaning. Variouis theories on the divinity of Christ, the Trinity and the Incarnation gave rise to the early heresies.
The author gives us an excellent exposition on the Middle Ages with their special problems and inevitably, their heresies.
A more detailed account is given of the events and theories that constituted what is called the Protestant Revolt, with the basic facts and doctrines concerning Luther, Zwingli, Calvin and Anglicanism.
The final chapter is a discussion on the contemporary ecumenical movement, its aims, and its achievements thus far.
The author, Leon Cristiani, was born in 1879 in Escurolles, France. He studied at the Grand Seminaire de Mouins and the Seminaire Francais of Rome. He received his doctorate from the Clermont-Ferrand University in 1911, writing a thesis on The Evolution of Luther from 1517 to 1528. He taught at the Grand Seminaire of Moulins (1903-1914) and at the Catholic Faculte de Lyons (1919-1947) where he became Dean of the Faculte des Lettres (1926-1947). He has written many books on religion and heresy. He has also written under the pen name Nicolas Corte, including Who is the Devil?, Vol. 21, and The Origin of Man, Vol. 29, in this series.
Roderick Bright translated Heresies and Heretics from the French.
This is Volume 136 under section XIV: Outside the Church.
Taken from the inside flaps.
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