The Encyclopedia of Heresies and Heretics

by Leonard George

Book Overview

Combines scholarship with humor, history with speculation, and philosophy with anecdote...Fascinating. -- Stanley Krippner This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860519880
• ISBN13: 9780860519881
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Paragon House
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Useful Reference

This is a reference book, but it is readable as a history of Christianity as well. It is superbly organized and nearly universal in coverage. As a history of the cruelty and twisted logic that creeps into all religions, it is unique. The author is equally critical of all sides in disputes over doctrine. If you are a student of Christianity, you need this book.

A complete and definitive guide to alternative christianity!

Everything you could ever want to know about the history of alternative Christianity! Includes information on the Cathars, the 13th century gnostic comeback which prompted the Catholic Church to start the Inquisition! Also, summaries of the teachings of every major gnostic school!