IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 1123: What Makes a Heresy?
Wednesday 16 July 2003, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | The Lollard Society |
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| Organiser: | Jill C. Havens, Department of English, Baylor University, Texas |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jill C. Havens, Department of English, Baylor University, Texas |
| Respondent: | John H. Arnold, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London |
| Paper 1123-a | Forcing the Heretic out of the Tradition (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Theology |
| Paper 1123-b | False Piety and Incredible Subtlety: Mysticism, Heresy and the Legacy of Marguerite Porete (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Theology |
| Abstract | This session asks the simple question: what makes a heresy? But, as scholars and students of medieval heretical movements know, the answer to that question is not so simple. The first paper will deal with how the opponents of Wyclif defined the Wycliffite movement as heretical, the paper focusing specifically on the issue of scriptural interpretation. The second paper will provide more general theological perspectives on how heresies defined themselves and how they were defined by their opponents within the orthodox church. The respondent will take up these issues and add to this discussion a perspective from a historian of the Cathar heresy. |