Contesting Orthodoxies in the History of Christianity

Examines the pursuit of orthodoxy, and its consequences for the history of Christianity.

Christianity is a hugely diverse and quarrelsome family of faiths, but most Christians have nevertheless set great store by orthodoxy - literally, ''right opinion'' - even if they cannot agree what that orthodoxy should be. The notion that there is a ''catholic'', or universal, Christian faith - that which, acc...