Brief Of History Heresy P » (1st Edition)

G. R. Evans is Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge. Her previous publications include Law and Theology in the Middle Ages (2002), The Church and the Churches (1994), Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages (1993), and Problems of Authority in the Reformation Debates (1992). She is also the editor of The Medieval Theologians (Blackwell Publishing, 2000). She was for ten years a prominent member of the Church and Order Advisory Group of the Church of England, and is a former diarist for The Church Times.

Though brief, this is a dense and satisfying history of Christian theologians, their arguments for orthodox belief, and the figures who heretically chose to differ. Evans (history, U. of Cambridge, UK) chronicles the history of various heretical sects from Early Christian times through the Reformation in a thematic discussion of issues such as good and evil, the relation of heresy to social movements, and the centrality of faith and order to an all-encompassing Church. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR