Resistance to Christianity
A
Chronological Encyclopedia of the Heresies
from the Beginning to
Modern Times
Note added April 2013: this translation is being reviewed in an attempt to improve it, fix any mistakes, etc.
Sections marked (*) have been corrected.
Table of Contents
Translator's Introduction
Author's Foreword (*)
Chapter 1: A Nation Sacrificed to History (*)
Chapter 2: Diaspora and Anti-Semitism (*)
Chapter 3: The Judean Sects (*)
Chapter 4: The Men of the Community, or the Essenes (*)
Chapter 5: The Baptist Movement of the Samaritan Messiah, Dusis/Dositheos (*)
Chapter 6: Simon of Samaria and Gnostic Radicalism (*)
Chapter 7: The Phallic and Symbiotic Cults (*)
Chapter 8: Three Esseno-Christian Christs: Seth, Melchizedek and Joshua/Jesus (*)
Chapter 9: The Messianic Sects of Joshua/Jesus: Nazarenes, Ebionites, Elchasaites (*)
Chapter 10: Quarrels of Prophets and Apostles: Jochanaan, Theudas/Judas/Thomas, Jacob/James, Simon-Peter, Barnabas, Saul/Paul (*)
Chapter 11: Marcion and the Hellenization of Christianity (*)
Chapter 12: The Inventors of a Christian Theology: Basilde, Valentinus, Ptolemy (*)
Chapter 13: Marcos and the Hellenization of Jewish Hermeticism (*)
Chapter 14: Carpocrates, Epiphanius and the Tradition of Simon of Samaria (*)
Chapter 15: The New Prophecy and the Development of Popular Christianity (*)
Chapter 16: Tatian and the Fabrication of the New Testament (*)
Chapter 17: Three Local Christianities: Edessa and Bardaisan, Alexandria and Origen, Antioch and Paul of Samosata (*)
Chapter 18: Novatian, the Apostate Clergy and the Anti-Montanist Reaction (*)
Chapter 19: Arianism and the Church of Rome (*)
Chapter 20: Donatus and the Circumcellions (*)
Chapter 21: The Spirituals, also called Messalians or Euchites (*)
Chapter 22: Monophysites and Dyophysites (*)
Chapter 23: Pelagius and Augustine, or the Conception of Free Will and Pre-destination (*)
Chapter 24: Priscillian of Avila (*)
Chapter 25: Paulicians and Bogomils (*)
Chapter 26: Christs and Reformers: Popular Resistance to the Institutional Church (*)
Chapter 27: The Communalist Prophets (*)
Chapter 28: Philosophy Against the Church (*)
Chapter 29: The Cathars (*)
Chapter 30: The Waldensians and the Adepts of Voluntary Poverty (*)
Chapter 31: The Movement of the Free-Spirit (*)
Chapter 32: Beghards and Beguines (*)
Chapter 33: The Millenarians (*)
Chapter 34: The Flagellants (*)
Chapter 35: The Fraticelles (*)
Chapter 36: The Reformers of the East: Hussites and Taborites (*)
Chapter 37: The Men of Intelligence and the Pikarti of Bohemia (*)
Chapter 38: The Victory of the Reformers and the Birth of the Protestant Churches (*)
Chapter 39: The Dissidents of Lutheranism and Calvinism (*)
Chapter 40: The Alumbrados of Spain (*)
Chapter 41: The Spiritual Libertines (*)
Chapter 42: The Anabaptists
Chapter 43: The Individualist Messiahs: David Joris, Nicolas Frey, Hendrik Niclaes
Chapter 44: Ironists and Sceptics
Chapter 45: Levellers, Diggers and Ranters
Chapter 46: The Jansenists
Chapter 47: Pietists, Visionaries and Quietists
Chapter 48: The End of the Divine Right
Bibliographical References
Index
Mirrored version (very snazzy!)
(Published by Editions Artheme Fayard in 1993. Translated from the French by NOT BORED! March 2007. Thanks to Christopher Gray for material support and encouragement.)
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