Truth and the Heretic

Truth and the Heretic
Title Truth and the Heretic PDF eBook
Author Karen Sullivan
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 294
Release 2005-09-15
Genre History
ISBN 0226781690

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"Exploring the figure of the heretic in Catholic writings of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as well as the heretic's characterological counterpart in troubadour lyrics, Arthurian romance, and comic tales, Truth and the Heretic seeks to understand why French and Occitan literature of the period celebrated the very characters who were so persecuted in society at large. Karen Sullivan proposes that such literature allowed medieval culture a means by which to express truths about heretics and the epistemological anxieties they aroused." "The first book-length study of the figure of the heretic in medieval French and Occitan literature, Truth and the Heretic will fascinate historians of ideas and literature as well as scholars of religion, critical theory, and philosophy."--

The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World

The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World
Title The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World PDF eBook
Author Matthew Stewart
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 346
Release 2007-01-17
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0393071049

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"Exhilarating…Stewart has achieved a near impossibility, creating a page-turner about jousting metaphysical ideas, casting thinkers as warriors." —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review Once upon a time, philosophy was a dangerous business—and for no one more so than for Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth-century philosopher vilified by theologians and political authorities everywhere as “the atheist Jew.” As his inflammatory manuscripts circulated underground, Spinoza lived a humble existence in The Hague, grinding optical lenses to make ends meet. Meanwhile, in the glittering salons of Paris, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was climbing the ladder of courtly success. In between trips to the opera and groundbreaking work in mathematics, philosophy, and jurisprudence, he took every opportunity to denounce Spinoza, relishing his self-appointed role as “God’s attorney.” In this exquisitely written philosophical romance of attraction and repulsion, greed and virtue, religion and heresy, Matthew Stewart gives narrative form to an epic contest of ideas that shook the seventeenth century—and continues today.

Heresy

Heresy
Title Heresy PDF eBook
Author Alister McGrath
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 294
Release 2009-11-03
Genre Religion
ISBN 0060822147

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In Heresy, leading religion expert and church historian Alister McGrath reveals the surprising history of heresy and rival forms of Christianity, arguing that the church must continue to defend what is true about Jesus. He explains that remaining faithful to Jesus’s mission and message is still the mandate of the church despite increasingly popular cries that traditional dogma is outdated and restricts individual freedom.

The Orthodox Heretic and Other Impossible Tales

The Orthodox Heretic and Other Impossible Tales
Title The Orthodox Heretic and Other Impossible Tales PDF eBook
Author Peter Rollins
Publisher Paraclete Press
Pages 209
Release 2009
Genre Religion
ISBN 1557256349

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In opposition to those who would claim that Christian faith embraces God at the expense of the suffering world, Rollins shows how the true believer embraces God only inasmuch as he fully embraces a needy world.

The Fool and the Heretic

The Fool and the Heretic
Title The Fool and the Heretic PDF eBook
Author Todd Charles Wood
Publisher Zondervan Academic
Pages 204
Release 2019-02-05
Genre Religion
ISBN 0310595444

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The Fool and the Heretic is a deeply personal story told by two respected scientists who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church. To some in the church, anyone who accepts the theory of evolution has rejected biblical teaching and is therefore thought of as a heretic. To many outside the church as well as a growing number of evangelicals, anyone who accepts the view that God created the earth in six days a few thousand years ago must be poorly educated and ignorant--a fool. Todd Wood and Darrel Falk know what it's like to be thought of, respectively, as a fool and a heretic. This book shares their pain in wearing those labels, but more important, provides a model for how faithful Christians can hold opposing views on deeply divisive issues yet grow deeper in their relationship to each other and to God.

A Book Forged in Hell

A Book Forged in Hell
Title A Book Forged in Hell PDF eBook
Author Steven Nadler
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 299
Release 2011-10-09
Genre History
ISBN 069113989X

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When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published. Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious subversive and political radical who sought to spread atheism throughout Europe. Steven Nadler tells the story of this book: its radical claims and their background in the philosophical, religious, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as the vitriolic reaction these ideas inspired. A vivid story of incendiary ideas and vicious backlash, A Book Forged in Hell will interest anyone who is curious about the origin of some of our most cherished modern beliefs--Jacket p. [2].

Jesus the Heretic

Jesus the Heretic
Title Jesus the Heretic PDF eBook
Author Douglas Lockhart
Publisher Element Books, Limited
Pages 0
Release 1997
Genre Christianity
ISBN 9781862040014

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From the author of "The Paradise Complex" comes a new book that explores the lost message of the Messiah. Douglas Lockhart questions the "fact" of divine intervention and provides a detailed analysis of Jesus' life, his compatriots, and the roots of early Christianity.