Tag: Heresy

Free Download The Infamous Boundary: Seven Decades of Heresy in Quantum Physics By David Wick (auth.)
1996 | 332 Pages | ISBN: 0387947264 | PDF | 4 MB
Although quantum mechanics has predicted an extraordinary range of phenomena with unprecedented accuracy, it remains controversial. Bohr and Heisenberg pronounced it "a complete theory" in 1927, but Einstein never accepted it, and as late as 1989 John Bell charged it with dividing the world of physics. David Wick traces the history of this controversy and shows how it affects our very conception of what a scientific theory is all about.

Free Download An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile, 1449-1559
by Stefania Pastore
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9004707557 | 349 Pages | PDF | 3.53 MB

Free Download Andrew Roach, "The Devil’s World: Heresy and Society 1100-1300"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0582279607, 1138835137 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 1.6 mb
Exploring the relationship of heresy, dissent and society in the 12th and 13th Centuries,The Devil’s World shows how people made conscious choices between heresy and orthodoxy in the middle ages and were not afraid to exert their power as ‘consumers’ of religion. The book gives an account of all popular religious movements, looks at the threat that heresy presented to the Church and lay powers and considers the measures they took to deal with it.

Free Download Gregory Erickson, "Reading Heresy: Religion and Dissent in Literature and Art"
English | ISBN: 3110555948 | 2017 | 225 pages | EPUB, PDF | 15 MB + 1386 KB
Heresy studies is a new interdisciplinary, supra-religious, and humanist field of study that focuses on borderlands of dogma, probes the intersections between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and explores the realms of dissent in religion, art, and literature. Free from confessional agendas and tolerant of both religious and non-religious perspectives, heresy studies fulfill an important gap in scholarly inquiry and artistic production.

Free Download Thomas A. Fudge, "Heresy and Hussites in Late Medieval Europe "
English | ISBN: 0367600714 | 2020 | 440 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
The followers of the martyred Bohemian priest Jan Hus (1371-1415) formed one of the greatest challenges to the medieval Latin Church. Branded as heretics, outlawed, then forced to fight for their faith as well as their lives, the Hussites occupy one of the most colorful and challenging chapters of European religious history. The essays reprinted in this book (along with one here first published in English and additional notes) explore the essence of the early Hussite movement by focusing on the nature and development of heresy both as accusation and identity. Heresy and Hussites in Late Medieval Europe first examines the definition of heresy, and its comparative nature across Europe. It investigates the unique practices of popular religion in local communities, while examining theology and its unavoidable conflicts. The repressive policy of crusade and the growth of martyrdom with its inevitable contribution to the formation of Hussite history is explored. The social application of religious ideas, its revolutionary outcomes, along with the intentional use of art in pedagogy and propaganda, situates the Czech heretics in the fifteenth century. An examination of leading personalities, together with the eventual and more formal church administration, rounds out the study of this remarkable era.

Free Download The Paulicians : Heresy, Persecution and Warfare on the Byzantine Frontier, c.750-880
by Carl Dixon
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9004516549 | 379 Pages | True PDF | 37 MB

Free Download God Interrupted: Heresy and the European Imagination between the World Wars by Benjamin Lazier
English | January 4, 2009 | ISBN: 069113670X, 0691155410 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 1.4 MB
Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed that they lived in a world made derelict by God’s absence and the interruption of his call. In response, they helped resurrect gnosticism and pantheism, the two most potent challenges to the monotheistic tradition. In God Interrupted, Benjamin Lazier tracks the ensuing debates about the divine across confessions and disciplines. He also traces the surprising afterlives of these debates in postwar arguments about the environment, neoconservative politics, and heretical forms of Jewish identity. In lively, elegant prose, the book reorients the intellectual history of the era.