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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"heresy"”.
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Heresy and Popular Protestantism in England, 1527-1553
… characteristics of sixteenth oentury English heresy and attempts to give some Insight into the things that ordinary people believed.</p>
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Creating Heresy: (Mis)representation, Fabrication, and the Tachikawa-ryu
In this dissertation I provide a detailed analysis of the role played by the Tachikawa-ryu in the development of Japanese esoteric Buddhist doctrine during the medieval period (900-1200). In doing so, I seek to challenge currently held, inaccurate views of the role played by this tradition in the …
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The criminal prosecution of heresy in the Theodosian code
… era (the seminal period of the crime of heresy). The antisectarian legislation issued during this period is analysed in order to deduce the concerns informing it. This analysis serves as a basis for an asessment of whether the nature of the antisectarian legislation validates the …
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The Development and Theological Importance of the Heresy of Macedonianism
… very important. A better understanding of this heresy will lead to a beter understanding of the problems facing the Modern Church and the New Era which has been called the Age of the Holy Spirit. Named after its alleged leader, Macedonius, bishop of Constantinople from 342 to 360, at which date …
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'A Deep and Imperturbable Joy': Saving Christianity from Postmodern Evangelical Heresy
… 'end of religion.' The 'postmodern evangelical heresy' is defined by Schmemann as 'secularism.' Secularism is not the rejection of God but the rejection of the 'ontological sacramentality' of the life of man. The concluding argument posits that evangelicals could arguably reinvigorate their …
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Chaucer’s Lists and the Parson’s Priests: Heresy, Censorship, and The Parson's Tale
… of priests effectively conceal the potential heresy in the Parson’s presentation of penance. Building on prior scholarship identifying Chaucer’s orthodox and heterodox sources and cataloging manuscript witnesses of the <em>Parson’s Tale</em>, this thesis asserts that the <em>Parson’s …
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France, Spain, and the Persecution of Protestant Heresy: A Study in Contrast
… dealt with the important issue of Protestant heresy in their realms. The main scope of this thesis is a comparative analysis of Spanish and French persecution of Protestants, mainly focusing on the years 1550-1650. This thesis argues that the Spanish Inquisition was the determining factor in …
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Italian Protestant exiles and the heresy debate in sixteenth-century Switzerland, 1553 - 1584
… the rejection of persecution. It shows how the heresy debate occasioned the articulation of different accounts of magisterial and ecclesiastical coercive authority and of the Scriptural, moral, and historical grounds for choosing either approach. On the other hand, it traces the dissemination of …
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Ecclesiological Docetism : in early and medieval dissent and heresy in eastern and western Christianity
… background of the development of orthodoxy and heresy in earliest Christianity it indicates a docetic Christological/ecclesiological parallel found in the Gnostic dualist tradition, countered by the catholic one of a growing orthodoxy, and the continuing influences and implications in …
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Reverence and Heresy: The Illustrations of Printed Editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Cinquecento Venice
The cinquecento was an era of immeasurable change within the Venetian Republic and across Europe, as the continent shed the last few remnants of the Middle Ages through mass transformation and development. During this epoch of tumultuous change, Ovid’s Metamorphoses gripped the imagination of many, …
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Reverence and Heresy: The Illustrations of Printed Editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Cinquecento Venice
The cinquecento was an era of immeasurable change within the Venetian Republic and across Europe, as the continent shed the last few remnants of the Middle Ages through mass transformation and development. During this epoch of tumultuous change, Ovid’s Metamorphoses gripped the imagination of many, …
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The Making of a Sufi Order Between Heresy and Legitimacy: Bayrami-Malāmis in the Ottoman Empire
Revolutionary currents with transformative ideals were part of the Sufi religious identity during the late medieval Islamic period. This dissertation tries to make sense of this phenomenon by focusing on the historical evolution of the Bayrami-Malāmi Sufi order within the Ottoman Empire. The scope …
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Blood and Fire: The Inquisition of Mary Tudor, 1555-1558
… executed 283 Protestants for the crime of heresy. The Crown adopted these harsh polices in order to preserve the royal regime. As heresy became synonymous with sedition, Queen Mary's government adopted an inquisitorial system of justice in England from 1555 to 1558. Through both royal …
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Orthodoxy And Heresy In Hans Küng: An Analysis And Critique Of His Criteria And Norms Of Christian Truth And Error
… deals with the concepts of orthodoxy and heresy in the thought of the Swiss theologian Hans Kung.</p> <p>Chapter I sketches the broad outlines of the development of Christian orthodoxy and, by implication, of the heresy which opposed it, starting with the New Testament times. The most …
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Book-Burning and the Banning of Books and Authors in England, 1526 - 1558: A Sixteenth-Century Fire-Library
… and Privy Councils largely conceptualized heresy and sedition as an infection that threatened the health of the body politic by threatening their authority. Chapter 2 argues that, after Henry VIII was named the Supreme Head of the Church in 1534 and well into Mary’s reign, all legislation …
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The Imprisonment of Knowledge and Creation of Heresy through Monastic Libraries and the Papal Authorities as Manifested in the Writings of Umberto Eco and John Lydgate.
My thesis, Canonicity and Medieval Heresy: Ideological Rifts and their Potentialities, addresses the way that medieval monasteries produced and protected canonical knowledge. The medieval church deployed monastic libraries to shape and conform the spread of knowledge selectively as shown within the …
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