Heretics（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　In Heretics Jonathan Wright charts the history of dissent in
the Christian Church through the stories of some of its most
emblematic heretics–from Arius, a fourth-century Libyan cleric who
doubted the very divinity of Christ, to more successful heretics
like Martin Luther and John Calvin. As he traces the Church’s
attempts at enforcing orthodoxy from the days of Constantine to the
modern Catholic Church’s lingering conflicts, Wright argues that
heresy, by forcing the Church to continually refine and impose its
beliefs, actually helped Christianity to blossom into one of the
world’s most formidable and successful religions.
　　Today, all believers owe it to themselves to grapple with the
questions raised by heresy. Can you be a Christian without
denouncing heretics? Is it possible that new ideas challenging
Church doctrine are destined to become as popular as have Luther’s
once outrageous suggestions of clerical marriage and a priesthood
of all believers? A delightfully readable and deeply learned new
history, Heretics overturns our assumptions about the role of
heresy in the faith that still shapes the world.

　　JONATHAN WRIGHT received his doctorate in history from Oxford
University. He has been a Thouron fellow at the University of
Pennsylvania and a fellow of the Institute for European History in
Mainz, Germany. He is also the author of God’s Soldiers, a history
of the Jesuits that has been translated into nine languages, and
The Ambassadors.