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  • 1 - Theories and Definitions of Heresy

  • from Part I - Approaches and Evidence
  • Edited by Richard Flower, University of Exeter
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy
    Published online:
    17 July 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025, pp 17-32

  • Summary

    This chapter surveys different ways in which ‘heresy’ has been conceptualised by a variety of writers, both within the periods in which it arose and in later centuries. Tracing a number of different inflections to the charge of heresy, the chapter suggests that we might see it not only as constructed by orthodox authority but as a means by which ‘authority’ itself is reaffirmed; and in conclusion suggests some ways through which modern historians might then reconceptualise their search for ‘dissent’ in past times.

Free Will and the Rebel Angels in Medieval Philosophy
  • Tobias Hoffmann
  • Published online:
    26 November 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020
  • In this book Tobias Hoffmann studies the medieval free will debate during its liveliest period, from the 1220s to the 1320s, and clarifies its background in Aristotle, Augustine, and earlier medieval thinkers. Among the wide range of authors he examines are not only well-known thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham, but also a number of authors who were just as important in their time and deserve to be rediscovered today. To shed further light on their theories of free will, Hoffmann also explores their competing philosophical explanations of the fall of the angels, that is, the hypothesis of an evil choice made by rational beings under optimal psychological conditions. As he shows, this test case imposed limits on tracing free choices to cognition. His book provides a comprehensive account of a debate that was central to medieval philosophy and continues to occupy philosophers today.