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Published on: 1998-04-16
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This book presents the first systematic and cross-cultural exploration of ideas of heresy, as well as orthodoxy, in a group of major religious traditions, including Neo-Confucianism, Sunni Islam, rabbinic Judaism, and early Christianity. It shows how authorities in all four of these traditions used common strategies to distinguish orthodox truth from heretical error. These same strategies often appear in modern ideological polemics and studies of deviance as well as in traditional religious controversies. The party that most effectively uses these strategies often gains a decisive advantage in the struggle among competing claimants to orthodoxy. The author also shows how orthodoxy depends on heresy. Without heresy, or at least ideas of heresy, orthodoxy could not establish or perpetuate itself. In fact, in all four traditions orthodoxy constructed itself by creating an inversion of the heretical other. By highlighting the common patterns in constructions of orthodoxy and heresy in four major religious traditions, this book also sets in relief subtler variations that give each tradition a special character. In this way this study strikes a balance between the universal and the particular: it illuminates a general pattern in world intellectual history, but also shows how the traditions that illustrate this pattern are distinctive. Heresy - Wikipedia Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs. A heretic is a proponent of such claims or beliefs. Heresy is ... Christianity Britannica.com Early views. Jesus and the earliest members of the Christian faith tradition were Jews and thus they stood in the faith tradition inherited by Hebrew people in ... Orthodoxie Wikipedia Orthodoxie (griechisch orths richtig geradlinig und dxa Meinung Glaube also Rechtglubigkeit) bezeichnet in ... JSTOR: Viewing Subject: Religion JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals books and primary sources. Orthodoxy - Wikipedia In classical Christian usage the term orthodox refers to the set of doctrines which were believed by the early Christians. A series of ecumenical councils also ...
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