Heresies help, please?

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(Please bear with me, as I was not certain where to post this. At first I thought it was a scriptural issue, but on reflection, it seems more philosophical.)

The different nuances of the various heresies are endlessly fascinating to me. I am particularly interested in the christological heresies of approximately the first 700 years of Christianity. Views and debates on the nature of Christ - rather than (say) Church law, morality, the later “protestant” conflicts, or general theology - are of most interest to me.

To be sure, there is plenty of data on the Web. But… I find all the facts, names, proponents, opponents, years, and complexities rather confusing - especially in view of the fact that a number of heresies differ from orthodoxy, and often from each other, only by small degrees, which adds to the confusion.

Can anyone recommend websites, articles and/or books that present succinct definitions of the various christological heresies, and which hopefully contain an easily readable time-line…?

Thanks in advance for any information 🙂
 
I would recommend the Catholic Encyclopedia. Also, there are several good books on the history of the Catholic Church which give brief descriptions of all the major heresies and their originators, etc.
 
steveb1 said:
(Please bear with me, as I was not certain where to post this. At first I thought it was a scriptural issue, but on reflection, it seems more philosophical.)

The different nuances of the various heresies are endlessly fascinating to me. I am particularly interested in the christological heresies of approximately the first 700 years of Christianity. Views and debates on the nature of Christ - rather than (say) Church law, morality, the later “protestant” conflicts, or general theology - are of most interest to me.

To be sure, there is plenty of data on the Web. But… I find all the facts, names, proponents, opponents, years, and complexities rather confusing - especially in view of the fact that a number of heresies differ from orthodoxy, and often from each other, only by small degrees, which adds to the confusion.

Can anyone recommend websites, articles and/or books that present succinct definitions of the various christological heresies, and which hopefully contain an easily readable time-line…?

Thanks in advance for any information 🙂
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The Creed (book) by Berard Marthaler.
 
The Arian heresy was kinda cool, and, but for a a few accidents of history (that Clovis’ Burgundian wife was Catholic), would have supplanted Roman Catholicism in the west.
 
Vince1022 said:
Clovis (and his wife) were so much later than the Arian heresy, the two are not really related.
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The germanic tribes who were overrunning the western empire were Arian converts. On the other hand, Clovis, who put an end to the last Roman enclave in Gaul, was a Frankish pagan who converted to trinitarian Roman Catholicism because of his Catholic wife. Clovis’ conversion united the Gallo-Roman aristocracy with the Franks, and eventually, the Merovingian dynasty ruled western Europe. Without his conversion, the west would have been Arian and Roman Catholicism would have gone under.
 
As I recall Dorothy Sayers discusses several heresies in he book Creed or Chaos. However, it is a long time since I read it so don’t remember the details.

Note, she was not Catholic; so terminology refers to a rather broad Church. However, she is easy to read and provides good teaching.
 
Reservoir_Dog said:
The germanic tribes who were overrunning the western empire were Arian converts. On the other hand, Clovis, who put an end to the last Roman enclave in Gaul, was a Frankish pagan who converted to trinitarian Roman Catholicism because of his Catholic wife. Clovis’ conversion united the Gallo-Roman aristocracy with the Franks, and eventually, the Merovingian dynasty ruled western Europe. Without his conversion, the west would have been Arian and Roman Catholicism would have gone under.
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I doubt it. I think the Church would have survived without Clovis.

Clovis was not essential to the Church.
 
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