The Resistance to Christianity
The Heresies at the Origins of the 18th Century
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/Dosithee
Chapter 6: Simon of Samaria and Gnostic Radicality
Chapter 7: The Phallic and Fusional 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, Simon-Peter, Barnabas, Saul/Paul
Chapter 11: Marcion and the Hellenization of Christianity
Chapter 12: The Inventors of a Christian Theology: Basilde, Valentine, 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 Bardesane, Alexandria and Origen, Antioch and Paul of Samosate
Chapter 18: Novatian, the Apostate Clergy and the Anti-Montanist Reaction
Chapter 19: Arianism and the Church of Rome
Chapter 20: Donat and the Circoncellions
Chapter 21: The Spirituals, 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: Priscilla of Avila
Chapter 25: Paulicians and Bogomiles
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 Vaudois and the Adepts of Voluntary Poverty
Chapter 31: The Movement of the Free-Spirit
Chapter 32: Beghards and Beguines
Chapter 33: The Millenarianists
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 and Kim Paice for material support and encouragement.)
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