Heresies and How to Avoid Them : Why It Matters What Christians Believe - Quash, Ben; Ward, Michael (Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson, 2007)
Heresies of the person of Christ and how to avoid them : -- Arianism : is Jesus Christ divine and eternal or was he created? / Michael B. Thompson -- Docetism : is Jesus Christ really human or did he just appear to be so? / John Sweet -- Nestorianism : is Jesus Christ one person or does he have a split identity, with his divine nature separate and divided from his human nature? / A.N. Williams -- Eutychianism : is Jesus Christ divine and human or a hybrid, a third thing that is neither fully one nor the other? / Marcus Plested -- Adoptionism : is Jesus Christ the Son of God by nature or by adoption? / Rachel Muers -- Theopaschitism : is Jesus Christ able or unable to suffer in his divine nature? / Michael Ward -- Heresies of the church and Christian living and how to avoid them : -- Marcionism : can Christians dispense with the God of the Old Testament? / Angela Tilby -- Donatism : do Christian ministers need to be faultless for their ministrations to be effective? / Ben Quash -- Pelagianism : can people be saved by their own efforts? / Nicholas Adams -- Gnosticism : can people be saved by acquiring secret knowledge? / Anders Bergquist -- The heresy of the Free Spirit : are there two kinds of Christian, those with divine wills and those with human wills? / Denys Turner -- Biblical Trinitarianism : the purpose of being orthodox / Janet Martin Soskice.
Keywords: Christian heresies.Heresy.Church history