A Brief History of Heresy (Blackwell Brief History of Religion)

Rating:
Summary: Misses the Point
Review: This is one in a series of Blackwell books aimed at providing short, accessible, and engaging treatments of theological and religious subjects for "the common reader." It is a worthy project that deserves better than this once-over-lightly survey of heresy in the Christian tradition. The author, a Cambridge historian, is both superficial and slanted in her benign view of the heretic as a kind of whistle-blower who helps us to be more "tolerant" in obedience to what the World Council of Churches prescribes as "unity in diversity." The temper of the times, she suggests, requires a sharply tempered devotion to truth. THis is from a First THings review.

You would do much better to read "The Cruelty of Heresy."