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Title: Heresy [encyclopaedia entry]
Related: Lagerlund, Henrik. Encyclopedia of medieval philosophy : philosophy between 500 and 1500, p.466-470
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9729-4_208
Publisher: New York : Springer
Date: 2011
Author/Creator: Kilcullen, Rupert John
Description: Medieval theologians took their concept of heresy mainly from the texts of Jerome and Augustine quoted in Gratian’s Decretum. Thomas Aquinas argued that anyone who pertinaciously denies even a minor item of church or Bible teaching falls into heresy. Ockham developed criteria for pertinacity and argued that a Christian, even if his or her opinions are actually in error, cannot be regarded as pertinacious simply for refusing to defer to the teaching of a pope.
Description: 5 pages(s)
Resource Type: reference entry
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Politics and International Relations

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