Reading Heresy

Religion and Dissent in Literature and Art

Gregory Erickson, Bernard Schweizer

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9783110555943
• eBook ISBN: 9783110556032
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism

Heresy studies is a new interdisciplinary, supra-religious, and humanist field of study that focuses on borderlands of dogma, probes the intersections between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and explores the realms of dissent in religion, art, and literature. Free from confessional agendas and tolerant of both religious and non-religious perspectives, heresy studies fulfill an important gap in scholarly inquiry and artistic production.

Divided into four parts, the volume explores intersections between heresy and modern literature, it discusses intricacies of medieval heresies, it analyzes issues of heresy in contemporary theology, and it demonstrates how heresy operates as an artistic stimulant. Rather than treating matters of heresy, blasphemy, unbelief, dissent, and non-conformism as subjects to be shunned or naively championed, the essays in this collection chart a middle course, energized by the dynamics of heterodoxy, dissent, and provocation, yet shining a critical light on both the challenges and the revelations of disruptive kinds of thinking and acting.

Index

• Abraham 1 f., 2
• Altizer, Thomas J.J. 1, 2, 3f., 4, 5, 6f.
• Anaya, Rodolfo 1
• Anzaldúa, Gloria 1, 2
• Apocalypse 1, 18, 2
• Arbuckle, Gerald A. 1, 2, 3
• Arianism (see Arius) 1, 2f.
• Arius 1, 2f., 3, 4, 5f., 6, 7
• Atheism (see unbelief) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Attar, Farid ud-Din 1f.
• Augustine 1f., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
• Aztlán 1
• Badiou, Alain 1
• Bauer, Walter 1
• Beguines 1, 2, 3, 4
• belief (see unbelief) 1, 2
• – Christian 1, 2f., 3
• – history of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• – interpretations of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• – modern 1, 2, 3, 4
• – secular 1, 2, 3
• – systems of 1f., 2, 3f., 4, 5
• Berger, Peter 1, 2
• Bible 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
• Blake, William 1, 2, 3f., 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Blameless in Abaddon (see Morrow, James) 1, 2, 3
• Body of Christ (see Eucharist) 1, 2f., 3, 4
• Bussie, Jacqueline 1, 2, 3f., 4, 5
• Campbell, Charles L. and Johan H. Cilliers 1, 2, 3
• Candide 1, 2
• Cappadocia (Turkey) 1
• Catharism 1, 2, 3
• Champion, Matthew 1f.
• Chesterton, G.K. 1, 2
• Christ (see Jesus)
• – as heretic 1f., 2
• – disciples of 1
• –in history 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• – in literature 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7f., 8f., 9, 10
• – theology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Christianity 1
• – history of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7f., 8
• – modern 1, 2, 3f., 4, 5, 6
• – politics 1f.
• – theology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8f., 9, 10
• Christology 1f., 2
• City of God (see Augustine) 1, 2
• Cleary, Thomas 1f.
• Confessions (see Augustine) 1f., 2
• Council of Nicaea (Nicaean Creed) 1, 2, 3
• craft (craftsmanship) 1, 2, 3f., 4f., 5
• Crawford, Matthew B. 1, 2, 3
• Cunningham, Valentine 1f., 2
• cyborg 1
• Death of God 1, 2, 3, 4f., 5, 6f., 7, 8, 9
• disciplinary defense 1
• d’Oignies, Mary 1
• Dracula (see Stoker, Bram) 1f., 2, 3
• dualism 1, 2f.
• Duchamp, Marcel 1, 2
• Durkheim, Emile 1, 2
• Eckhart, Meister 1
• Ehrman, Bart 1f.
• Eliade, Mircea 1
• Erickson, Gregory 1f.
• Eucharist 1, 2, 3, 4
• Evil
• – Biblical 1
• – Defining 1
• – In literature 1, 2, 3, 4, 5f.
• – In theology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• – Problem of 1, 2, 3f.
• Finnegans Wake (see Joyce, James) 1
• fools 1, 2
• free-will defense 1, 2
• Freud, Sigmund 1, 2, 3, 4
• Gedanken games 1 f., 2
• Gillespie, Michael Allen 1
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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• I. Heresy and Modern Literature
• II. Medieval Heresy
• III. Heretical Theology
• IV. From the Creators: The Artists’ Corner
• Notes on the Contributors
• Index