Heresy

• General:
  • Walter Bauer: Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, (1934). Philadelphia: Fortress, 1971.
  • A. H. M. Jones: Were Ancient Heresies Disguised Social Movements? (1966). Philadelphia: Fortress, 1966. Answers "No".
  • Antti Marjanen and Petri Luomanen, eds.: A Companion to Second-Century "Heresies", (2005). Leiden: Brill, 2005. Read with caution. As the inverted commas in the title suggest, the majority of the authors are either openly sympathetic to heresy or at least unimpressed by Orthodoxy. Still, contains much recent information about many heretical movements.
  • Jeffrey Burton Russell: Dissent and Reform in the Early Middle Ages, (1965). University of California, 1965.

• Patristic Catalogues of Heresies:
  • Euthymius Zigabenus: Panoplia dogmatica. PG 130:19. Against various heresies, ordered by Alexius Comnenus.

• On how heresy may be identified:
  • St. Vincent of Lérins: Commonitorium, PL 50:637. Contains the famous "Vincentian canon", Quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus. --- SPL

• Why are there heretics? Why are they so convincing and perhaps even sincere?
  • As a test: St. Vincent of Lérins: Commonitorium;

• Heresy as an illness: St. Vincent of Lérins: Commonitorium, 20;

• Heretical books may be read, but with discretion: St. Jerome: Letter 61;