Is Subordinationism a Heresy?

The Infinity Heresy

Of course, before an unending number of objections start pouring in to my bottomless email box, I need to clarify this brazen claim. After all, humans have been grappling with the concept of infinity for many millennia and mathematicians seem to have (at least in the last 150 years or so) finally tamed it. First, building on the work of Euler, Cauchy and Weierstrass, we now have the ability to ...

On Mally’s Alleged Heresy: A Reply

In this paper, I respond to critics who claim that E. Mally’s distinction between two modes of predication, as it is employed in my theory of abstract objects, is reducible to, or analyzable in terms of, a single mode ofobjects, is reducible to, or analyzable in terms of, a single mode of predication plus the distinction between nuclear and extranuclear properties. I argue against these claims ...

Panel: “Heresy, Inquisition, and the State”

Religious persecution of “heretics” by the Catholic Church that characterizes the middle ages had its roots in power struggles centuries prior. In the first centuries of Christianity, Christians fought amongst themselves for interpretive and doctrinal authority. Heterodoxy didn’t stand a chance in the Middle Ages; in Late Antiquity nothing was certain. Everything changed when, in 380, Emperor T...

Facing the Nuclear Heresy: A Call to Reformation

The Birth of Popular Heresy: A Millennial Phenomenon?

This paper provides a reassessment of historical debates about the nature of popular movements in and around the year 1000, with particular reference to the work of Richard Landes and Dominique Barthélemy. Heresy and heresy accusations do not feature in the classical historiography of millennialism in medieval Europe, including Norman Cohn’s Pursuit of the Millennium. Nor does the assertion tha...