The Resistance to Christianity

The Heresies at the Origins of the 18th Century

by Raoul Vaneigem

Table of Contents

• Introduction — by the translator
• Foreword — by the author


• Chapter 1 — A Nation Sacrificed to History
• Chapter 2 — Diaspora and Anti-Semitism
• Chapter 3 — The Judean Sects
• Chapter 4 — The Men of the Community, or the Essenes
• Chapter 5 — The Baptist Movement of the Samaritan Messiah Dusis/Dosithea
• Chapter 6 — Simon of Samaria and Gnostic Radicality
• Chapter 7 — The Phallic and Fusional Cults
• Chapter 8 — Three Esseno-Christian Christs: Seth, Melchizedek, and Joshua/Jesus
• Chapter 9 — The Messianic Sects of Joshua/Jesus: Nazarenes, Ebionites, Elchasaites
• Chapter 10 — Quarrels about Prophets and Apostles: Jochanaan, Theudas/Jude/Thomas, Jacob, Simon-Peter, Barnabas, Saul/Paul
• Chapter 11 — Marcion and the Hellenization of Christianity
• Chapter 12 — The Inventors of a Christian Theology: Basilides, Valentine, Ptolemy
• Chapter 13 — Marcos and the Hellenization of Jewish Hermeticism
• Chapter 14 — Carpocratus, Epiphanius and the Tradition of Simon of Samaria
• Chapter 15 — The New Prophecy and the Development of Popular Christianity
• Chapter 16 — Tatian and the Fabrication of the New Testament
• Chapter 17 — Three Local Christianities: Edessa and Bardesane, Alexandria and Origen, Antioch and Paul of Samosate
• Chapter 18 — Novatian, the Apostate Clergy and the Anti-Montanist Reaction
• Chapter 19 — Arianism and the Church of Rome
• Chapter 20 — Donat and the Circoncellions
• Chapter 21 — The Spirituals, Also Called Messalians or Euchites
• Chapter 22 — Monophysites and Dyophysites
• Chapter 23 — Pelagius and Augustine, or the Conception of Free Will and Predestination
• Chapter 24 — Priscillian of Avila
• Chapter 25 — Paulicians and Bogomiles
• Chapter 26 — Christs and Reformers: Popular Resistance to the Institutional Church
• Chapter 27 — The Communalist Prophets
• Chapter 28 — Philosophy against the Church
• Chapter 29 — The Cathars
• Chapter 30 — The Vaudois and the Adepts of Voluntary Poverty
• Chapter 31 — The Movement of the Free-Spirit
• Chapter 32 — Beghards and Beguines
• Chapter 33 — The Millenarianists
• Chapter 34 — The Flagellants
• Chapter 35 — The Fraticelles
• Chapter 36 — The Eastern Reformers: the Hussites and Taborites
• Chapter 37 — The Men of Intelligence and the Pikarti of Bohemia
  
• Chapter 38 — The Victory of the Reformers and the Birth of the Protestant Churches
• Chapter 39 — The Dissidents from Lutheranism and Calvinism
• Chapter 40 — The Alumbrados of Spain
• Chapter 41 — The Spiritual Libertines
• Chapter 42 — The Anabaptists
• Chapter 43 — The Individualist Messiahs: David Joris, Nicolas Frey, Hendrik Niclaes
• Chapter 44 — Ironists and Sceptics
• Chapter 45 — Levellers, Diggers and Ranters
• Chapter 46 — The Jansenists
• Chapter 47 — Pietists, Visionaries and Quietists
• Chapter 48 — The End of the Divine Right


• Bibliography

Fayard

Publisher of the French (original) in 1993.

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