Heretics: The Creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the Modern Church

A lively examination of the heretics who helped Christianity become the world's most powerful religion.

From Arius, a fourth-century Libyan cleric who doubted the very divinity of Christ, to more successful heretics like Martin Luther and John Calvin, this book charts the history of dissent in the Christian Church.

As the author traces the Church's attempts at enforcing orthodoxy, from the days of Constantine to the modern Catholic Church's lingering conflicts, he argues that heresy—by f...