Understanding modern heresy - Contents




  1. Why I began to study heresy
  2. Definitions and boundaries
  3. The possibility of heresy is integral to church life
  4. Criteria for including a case on this site
    1. and what is excluded: blasphemy, burning books
  5. Incidence
    1. The puzzle of the modern church
  6. A skeleton of British heresy
    1. bases 
      1. Ecclesiology
      2. Strength
    2. boundaries
      1. not blasphemy
    3. theo-legal judgement
    4. sacrifice
    5. forgetting
    6. morality
  7. Church as imagined community
  8. Heresy isn't what it used to be
    1. and is closely contextual
  9. Doctrine is justiciable
    1. Courts and procedures
    2. Judgement creates heresy
  10. Conclusions
    1. Heresy is rare and normal
    2. Little, local heresy
    3. People get hurt
    4. Forgetting


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