Modern British Heresy

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

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