Contesting Orthodoxies in the History of Christianity Gebarowski-Shafer Ellie
Contesting Orthodoxies in the History of Christianity Gebarowski-Shafer Ellie Christianity is a hugely diverse and quarrelsome family of faiths, but most Christians have nevertheless set great store…
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Contesting Orthodoxies in the History of Christianity Gebarowski-Shafer Ellie
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. It also requires a variety of strategies, from confrontation and exclusion, through deliberate choices as to what is forgotten or ignored, to creative or even indulgent inclusion. The notion that there is a 'catholic', or universal, Christian faith - that which, according to the famous fifth-century formula, has been believed everywhere, at all times and by all people - is itself an act of faith: to reconcile it with the historical fact of persistent division and plurality requires a constant effort.
In this volume, seventeen leading historians of Christianity ask how the ideal of unity has clashed, negotiated, reconciled or coexisted with the historical reality of