Heresies and how to avoid them :
Heresies and how to avoid them : why it matters what Christians believe /
edited by Ben Quash and Michael Ward ; Foreword by Stanley Hauerwas.
- xi; 148 p. ; 22 cm.
Part 1 HERESIES OF THE PERSON OF CHRIST AND HOW TO AVOID THEM --
1 Arianism: Is Jesus Christ divine and eternal or was he created? --
2 Docetism: Is Jesus Christ really human or did he just appear to be so? --
3 Nestorianism: Is Jesus Christ one person or does he have a split identity, with his divine nature separate and divided from his human nature? --
4. Eutychianism: Is Jesus Christ divine and human or a hybrid, a third thing that is neither fully one or nor the other? --
5 Adoptionism: Is Jesus Christ the son of God by nature of by adoption? --
6. Theopaschitism: Is Jesus Christ able or unabl to suffer in his divine nature? --
PART 2 HERESIES OF THE CHURCH AND CHRISTIAN LIVING AND HOW TO AVOID THEM --
7. Marcionism: can Christians dispense with the God of the Old Testament? --
8. Donatism: do Christian ministers need to be faultless for their ministrations to be effective? --
9. Pelagianism: can people be saved by thier own efforts? --
10. Gnosticism: can people be saved by acquiring secret knowledge? --
11 The heresy of the free spirit: are there two kinds of Christian, those with divine wills and those with human wills? --
12 Biblical trinitarianism: the purpose of being orthodox
9781598560138
Acc#38644
HERESIES--HISTORY
THEOLOGY, DOCTRINAL--HISTORY
BT 1315.2 / H421 2007
Part 1 HERESIES OF THE PERSON OF CHRIST AND HOW TO AVOID THEM --
1 Arianism: Is Jesus Christ divine and eternal or was he created? --
2 Docetism: Is Jesus Christ really human or did he just appear to be so? --
3 Nestorianism: Is Jesus Christ one person or does he have a split identity, with his divine nature separate and divided from his human nature? --
4. Eutychianism: Is Jesus Christ divine and human or a hybrid, a third thing that is neither fully one or nor the other? --
5 Adoptionism: Is Jesus Christ the son of God by nature of by adoption? --
6. Theopaschitism: Is Jesus Christ able or unabl to suffer in his divine nature? --
PART 2 HERESIES OF THE CHURCH AND CHRISTIAN LIVING AND HOW TO AVOID THEM --
7. Marcionism: can Christians dispense with the God of the Old Testament? --
8. Donatism: do Christian ministers need to be faultless for their ministrations to be effective? --
9. Pelagianism: can people be saved by thier own efforts? --
10. Gnosticism: can people be saved by acquiring secret knowledge? --
11 The heresy of the free spirit: are there two kinds of Christian, those with divine wills and those with human wills? --
12 Biblical trinitarianism: the purpose of being orthodox
9781598560138
Acc#38644
HERESIES--HISTORY
THEOLOGY, DOCTRINAL--HISTORY
BT 1315.2 / H421 2007