Heresies and Heretics: Books

Christ is God! - the Arian crisis -- Christ is man! - the monophysite crisis --"Not my will, but Thine be done": the Monothelite crisis --

The gnostic beginnings of Orthodoxy -- The catholicity of Irenaeus -- The foundations of Catholic teaching in the third century -- Origen and Orthodoxy -- The Nicene Council and its aftermath -- Apollinarius and the Chalcedonian definition

Early Christology -- Initial problems : Justin Martyr, Melito of Sardis, Irenaeus of Lyon, Tertullian of Carthage, Origen of Alexandria -- Further problems : The Arians and Athanasius ; Appollinari of Laodicea ; Theodore of Mopsuestia ; Cyril, Nestorius, and Eutyches ; Leo and Chalcedon -- A homily on the Passover / Melito of Sardis -- Against heresies / Irenaeus of Lyon -- Against Praxeas ; On the flesh of Christ / Tertullian -- On first principles / Origen -- Orations against the Arians / Athanasius -- On the union in Christ of the body with the Godhead ; Fragments / Apollinaris of Laodicea -- Fragments of the doctrinal works / Theodore of Mopsuestia -- The controversies leading up to the Council of Chalcedon. Nestorius's First sermon against the Theotokos ; Cyril of Alexandria's Second letter to Nestorius ; Nestorius's Second letter to Cyril -- Cyril's letter to John of Antioch ; Pope Leo I's Letter to Flavian of Constaninople ; The Council of Chalcedon's "Definition of the faith."

v. 1. Rules of faith in the early church. Eastern Orthodox affirmations of faith. Medieval Western statements of faith -- v. 2. Creeds and confessions of the Reformation era -- v. 3. Statements of faith in modern Christianity -- v. 4. Credo : historical and theological guide to Creeds and confessions of faith in the Christian tradition / Jaroslav Pelikan -- CD-ROM. Original language texts.

Gnostics. Marcion -- Arian controversy -- Chronological guide of events relevant to Church history to 461

Orthodoxy and deviance .

Appendix contains dictionary of heresies.

Peasant Heresies in the Early Middle Ages -- Bourgeois heresies in Western Europe in the High Middle Ages -- the Catholic Church's Counter-Offensive -- Heresy and Social Conflict in the Late Middle Ages -- Asceticism and Self-Deification