In theology or the history of religion, heresiology is the study of heresy, and heresiographies are writings about the topic. Heresiographical works were common in both medieval Christianity and Islam.
Heresiology developed as a part of the emerging definition of Christian orthodoxy. Church scholars studied and documented the teachings of various Christian sects in order to clearly distinguish between those they accepted as orthodox and those they rejected as heretical.[1] Other Christian communions developed their own competing heresiological traditions as well.
In Islam, heresiology surveyed both the various Muslim sects, and also other religions such as Christianity and Judaism. Some, like Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi and Ibn Hazm wrote polemical works, arguing the falseness of sects and religions other than their own. Others, like al-Shahrastani's Al-Milal wa al-Nihal, took a more impartial approach closer to modern religious studies works.[2]
^Royalty, Robert M. (2013). "Policing the Boundaries: The Politics of Heresiology". The Origin of Heresy: A History of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity. Routledge. pp. 119–146.
^Ian Richard Netton (2013). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Routledge. p. 226. ISBN978-1-135-17960-1.
Bibliographyedit
Berzon, Todd S. (2016). Classifying Christians. Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN9780520284265.
May 12, 2024
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