Heretics Within

Author : Rob J. Hayes
Publisher : Rob J. Hayes
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Heresy Within by Rob J. Hayes Pdf

For generations the Inquisition has stood between humanity and the forces of darkness. It has failed. Thanquil Darkheart is a witch hunter for the Inquisition, on a holy crusade to rid the world of heresy. He’s also something else... expendable. When the God Emperor gives Thanquil an impossible task, he knows he has no choice but to venture deep into the Wilds to hunt down a fallen Inquisitor. Even the best swordswoman is one bad day away from a corpse. It’s a lesson Blademaster Jezzet Vel’urn isn’t keen to learn. Chased into the Wilds by a vengeful warlord, Jezzet makes it to the free city of Chade. But instead of sanctuary all she finds are more enemies from her past. The Black Thorn is a cheat, a thief, a murderer and worse. He’s best known for the killing of several Inquisitors and every town in the Wilds has a WANTED poster with his name on it. Thorn knows it’s often best to lie low and let the dust settle, but some jobs pay too well to pass up. As their fates converge, Jezzet, Thanquil, and the Black Thorn will need to forge an uneasy alliance in order to face the truth the Inquisition has been hiding from them all. A dark epic fantasy full of zealous witch hunters, roving warlords, dark magic, and demons. Perfect for fans of Joe Abercrombie and Brent Weeks.

Author : Jonathan Wright
Publisher : HMH
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780547548890

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Heretics by Jonathan Wright Pdf

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 : Lucy J. Sackville
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153567

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Heresy and Heretics in the Thirteenth Century by Lucy J. Sackville Pdf

The first book to deal with all the principal treatments of heresy and anti-heretical writings during their heyday in the thirteenth century. Heresy is always relative; the traces that it leaves to us are distorted and one-sided. In the last few decades, historians have responded to these problems by developing increasingly sophisticated methodologies that help to unravel and illuminate the tangled layers from which the texts that describe heresy are built, but in the process have made our reading of heresy fractured and disconnected. Heresy and Heretics seeks to redress this by reading the different types of anti-heretical writing as part of a wider, connected tradition, considering all the principal orthodox treatments of heresy for the first time. Drawn from the mid-thirteenth century, a time when both medieval heresy and the church's response to it were at their zenith, they describe a spectrum of material that ranges from the theological arguments of some of the greatest thinkers of the age to the homely sermons of the wanderingpreachers. In considering the whole scope of anti-heretical writing from this period, it becomes apparent that, far from being an artificial construct isolated from reality, the church's treatment of heresy in fact had a far morecomplex relationship with its subject matter. Dr L.J. Sackville teaches in the Department of History, University of York.

Author : Magda Teter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139448819

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Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland by Magda Teter Pdf

Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland takes issue with historians' common contention that the Catholic Church triumphed in Counter-reformation Poland. In fact, the Church's own sources show that the story is far more complex. From the rise of the Reformation and the rapid dissemination of these new ideas through printing, the Catholic Church was overcome with a strong sense of insecurity. The 'infidel Jews, enemies of Christianity' became symbols of the Church's weakness and, simultaneously, instruments of its defence against all of its other adversaries. This process helped form a Polish identity that led, in the case of Jews, to racial anti-Semitism and to the exclusion of Jews from the category of Poles. This book portrays Jews not only as victims of Church persecution but as active participants in Polish society who as allies of the nobles, placed in positions of power, had more influence than has been recognised.

Author : Peter Biller,Caterina Bruschi,Shelagh Sneddon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004193604

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Inquisitors and Heretics in Thirteenth-Century Languedoc by Peter Biller,Caterina Bruschi,Shelagh Sneddon Pdf

This book provides an edition and translation of depositions of heresy suspects interrogated in Toulouse in the 1270s. These depositions plug a large hole in the history of heresy and inquisition, and they are reminiscent of Montaillou in their sheer colour and liveliness

Author : Ayala Fader
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691234489

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Hidden Heretics by Ayala Fader Pdf

"This book concerns a cohort of ultra-orthodox Jews based in the greater New York area who, while retaining membership and close familial and other ties with their strictly observant communities, seek out secular knowledge about the world on the down low (so to speak), both online and via in-person encounters. Ayala Fader conducted her ethnographic research in these rarified social circles for years, developing relationships of trust with the mostly young married men and women who have taken to clandestine methods to find alternative social spaces in which to question what it means to be ethical and what a life of self-fulfillment looks like. Fader's book reveals the stresses and strains that such "double-lifers" experience, including the difficulty these life choices inject into relationships with wives, husbands, and one's children. Not all of these "double-lifers" become atheists. Fader's interlocutors can be placed on a broad spectrum ranging from religiously observant but open-minded at one end to atheism on the other. The rabbinical leadership of these ultra-orthodox communities are well aware of this phenomenon and of how unfiltered internet access makes such alternative forms of seeking an ever-present temptation. (Some ultra-orthodox rabbis have been sounding the alarm for years, claiming that the internet represents more of a threat to community survival today than the Holocaust did in the last century.) Fader's book examines the institutional responses of ultra-orthodox communities to the double-lifers. These include what is typically referred to as a Torah-based type of "religious therapy" conducted by trained members of these communities who as therapists and "life coaches" blend elements of modern psychiatry with ultra-orthodoxy and "treat" troubling, potentially life-altering doubt and skepticism as symptoms of underlying emotional pathology"--

Author : Heinrich Fichtenau
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271043741

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Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200 by Heinrich Fichtenau Pdf

The struggle over fundamental issues erupted with great fury in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In this book preeminent medievalist Heinrich Fichtenau turns his attention to a new attitude that emerged in Western Europe around the year 1000. This new attitude was exhibited both in the rise of heresy in the general population and in the self-confident rationality of the nascent schools. With his characteristic learning and insight, Fichtenau shows how these two separate intellectual phenomena contributed to a medieval world that was never quite as uniform as might appear from our modern perspective.

Author : Sienna Tristen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1775242706

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The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming by Sienna Tristen Pdf

A vivid coming-of-age story that explores the struggles of chronic anxiety and self-doubt within a richly-detailed fantasy setting. Ronoah Genoveffa despairs of fulfilling his spiritual identity, until he begins a cross-continental pilgrimage with an otherworldly mentor. Immersive worldbuilding and mythology meet visceral emotional case study.

Author : David Ray Papke
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814768846

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Heretics in the Temple by David Ray Papke Pdf

Americans seem increasingly disenchanted with their legal system. In the wake of several high-profile trials, America's faith in legal authority appears profoundly shaken. And yet, as David Ray Papke shows in this dramatic and erudite tour of American history, many Americans have challenged and often rejected the rule of law since the earliest days of the country's founding. Papke traces the lineage of such legal heretics from nineteenth-century activists William Lloyd Garrison and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, through Eugene Debs, and up to more recent radicals, such as the Black Panther Party, anti-abortionists, and militia members. A tradition of American legal heresy clearly emerges—linked together by a body of shared references, idols, and commitments—that problematizes the American belief in legal neutrality and highlights the historical conflicts between law and justice. Questioning the legal faith both peculiar and essential to American mythology, this alternative tradition is in itself an overlooked feature of American history and culture.

Author : Thomas A. Fudge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351892094

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The Crusade against Heretics in Bohemia, 1418–1437 by Thomas A. Fudge Pdf

This selection of over 200 texts, nearly all appearing for the first time in English translation, provides a close-up look at the crusades against the Hussite heretics of 15th-century Bohemia, from the perspective of the official Church - or at their struggles for religious freedom, from the Hussites' own point of view. It also throws light on the meaning of the crusading movement and on the nature of warfare in the late Middle Ages. There is no single documentary account of the conflict, but the riveting events can be reconstructed from a wide range of contemporary sources: chronicles, sermons, manifestos, songs, bulls, imperial correspondence, military and diplomatic communiqués, liturgy, military ordinances, trade embargos, epic poems, letters from the field, Jewish documents, speeches, synodal proceedings, and documents from popes, bishops, emperors and city councils. These texts reveal the zeal and energy of the crusaders but also their deep disunity, growing frustration and underlying fears - and likewise the heresy, determination and independence of the Hussites. Five times the cross was preached and the vastly superior forces of the official church and the empire marched into Bohemia to suppress the peasant armies. Five times they were humiliated and put to flight.

Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU52660702

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The Historic Note-book by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer Pdf

Author : Eleanor Heartney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0998956856

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Postmodern Heretics by Eleanor Heartney Pdf

This redesigned, re-edited, illustrated new edition of the classic study "Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art" challenges conventional wisdom about the relationship of contemporary art and religion. It explores the Catholic roots of controversial artists and the impact of Catholicism on the 1990s Culture Wars.

Author : Malcolm Barber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317890386

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The Cathars by Malcolm Barber Pdf

The Cathars are one of the most famous heretical movements of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. They infiltrated the highest ranks of society and posed a major threat not only to the Catholic Church but also to secular authorities as well. The movement was finally smashed by the crusade and the inquisitional proceedings that followed. This new study is the first comprehensive history of the Cathars. It addresses major topics in medieval history including heresy, orthodoxy and the Crusades as well as providing a history of the social and political history of Languedoc and the rise of the Capetian dynasty. A fascinating study of the development of radical religious belief and its violent suppression.

Author : William Montgomery Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172133841411

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The Bankruptcy of Christian Supernaturalism: Other heretics in the Episcopal church by William Montgomery Brown Pdf

Author : Ian Forrest
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199286928

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The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England by Ian Forrest Pdf

Heresy was the most feared crime in the medieval moral universe. By examining the drafting, publicizing, and implementing of new laws against heresy in the 14th and 15th centuries, this text presents a general study of inquisition in medieval England.