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Heresy

Orthodoxy often learned to define itself by naming what it was not

Heresy is teaching judged by the Church to depart from the apostolic faith. From Irenaeus onward, the cataloguing of heresies, seen in his Against Heresies and later in Epiphanius' Panarion, helped the Church define orthodoxy by contrast, clarifying true doctrine through the rejection of error. The concept thus shaped the boundaries of Christian belief, marking which teachings the community received as faithful and which it set aside.

How it traveled

  1. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  2. Defence Against the Arians. (Apologia Contra Arianos.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  3. Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  4. Arian History. (Historia Arianorum ad Monachos.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  5. Against the Arians. (Orationes contra Arianos IV.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  6. On the Councils of Ariminum and Seleucia. (De Synodis.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  7. The Letters
    Caesarea (Cappadocia) · 379
    explains
  8. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
    explains
  9. Against Eunomius
    Nyssa · 395
    explains
  10. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  11. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  12. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  13. Jerome's Apology for Himself Against the Books of Rufinus
    Aquileia · 411
    explains
  14. The Apology of Rufinus. Addressed to Apronianus, in Reply to Jerome's Letter to Pammachius
    Aquileia · 411
    applies
  15. The Letters of St. Jerome
    Bethlehem · 420
    explains
  16. Jerome and Gennadius. Lives of Illustrious Men
    Bethlehem · 420
    explains
  17. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  18. Reply to Faustus the Manichæan
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  19. On Baptism, Against the Donatists
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  20. A Work on the Proceedings of Pelagius
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  21. Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  22. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  23. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  24. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  25. A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  26. Against Lying
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  27. A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  28. Against the Epistle of Manichæus, Called Fundamental
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  29. The Third Ecumenical Council: The Council of Ephesus
    Ephesus · 431
    explains
  30. The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 439
    explains
  31. The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, For the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies
    Lérins · 445
    explains
  32. The Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 450
    explains
  33. The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret
    Cyrrhus · 458
    explains
  34. The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great
    Rome · 461
    explains
  35. The Fifth Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Constantinople
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 553
    explains
  36. The Book of Pastoral Rule, and Selected Epistles, of Gregory the Great
    Rome · 604
    explains
  37. Selected Epistles of Gregory the Great
    Rome · 604
    explains
  38. The Sixth Ecumenical Council. The Third Council of Constantinople
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 680
    explains
  39. Commentary on Galatians
    Wittenberg · 1546
    applies
  40. Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church
    Geneva · 1564
    applies

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