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Henderson, J. B. (1998). The construction of orthodoxy and heresy: Neo-confucian, islamic, jewish and early christian patterns . Albany (N.Y.: State University of New York Press.)  Henderson was the William R. and Letitia Bell Endowed Professor , Co-ordinator of Chinese Studies , Department of History, Louisiana State University He died in April 2019. Obituary.  This book is a dizzying survey and analysis of orthodoxy and heresy across five religions and twelve hundred years, give or take.  I like the notion that the exercise “may be characterised as ‘the science of the error of others’” (p2) (citing Wasserstrom, Between Muslim and Jew, p.154) , but Henderson’s method is not scientific and is none the worse for it. It is historical, at a high level of abstraction, founded on an extensive and impressive range of reading and command of his materials. I did not see a general or abstract definition of heresy. Perhaps I missed it, but I hope not: I assert that heresy is constructed in the
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The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy

John B. Henderson (1998).  The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Neo-confucian, Islamic, Jewish and early Christian patterns.  Albany (N.Y.: State University of New York Press.) 1998 Henderson was the William R. and Letitia Bell Endowed Professor, Co-ordinator of Chinese Studies, Department of History, Louisiana State University.  He died in 2019  Obituary ============= This book is a dizzying survey and analysis of orthodoxy and heresy across five religions and twelve hundred years, give or take.  I like the notion that the exercise “may be characterised as ‘the science of the error of others’” (p2) (citing Wasserstrom, Between Muslim and Jew , p.154), but Henderson’s method is not scientific and is none the worse for it. It is historical, at a high level of abstraction, founded on an extensive and impressive range of reading and command of his materials.  I did not see a general or abstract definition of heresy. Perhaps I missed it, but I hope not: I assert that heresy is constru
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Table of heresy cases, UK and Ireland, 1689 - present

 Heresy cases in Britain and Ireland since 1689 Note: this is likely to include the great majority of heresy cases. However, there is a reasonable probability that there will have been others, not least amongst the smaller churches.     1690- Church 1749 >1799 >1849 >1899 >1949 >1999 2000- % Anti-Burgher 2 2 1.1 Associate Presbytery 1 1 0.5 Baptist 1 1 2 1.1 Burgher 1 1 0.5 Church of England 10 4 12 20 9 2 57 31.1 Church of Ireland 2 1 3 1.6 Church of Scotland 8 3 19 6 36 19.7 Congregational 1 3 4 2.2 Orthodox Congregational 1 1 0.5 Congregational Union 1 1 0.5 Episcopal Church of Scotland 2 1 3 6 3.3 Free Church of Scotland 8 1 9 4.9 Glasite 1 1 0.5 Independent Calvinist 1 1 0.5 Irish Presbyterian  1 1 0.5 Methodist 2 3 2 7 3.8 Methodist (Calvinist) 1 1 0.5 Methodist / Glasite 1 1 0.5 Methodist / Moravian 1 1 0.5 Methodist New Connection 1 1 0.5 Primitive Methodist 1 1 0.5 Wesleyan Methodist 3 1 4 2.2 Presbyterian 3 2 1 1 7 3.8 Quaker 1 2 2 5 2.7 Relief Church 2 2 1.1 R
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