The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy Neo-Confucian, Islamic, Jewish, and Early Christian Patterns
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- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
- Publish date: 06/01/1998
The author also shows how orthodoxy depends on heresy. Without heresy, or at least ideas of heresy, orthodoxy could not establish or perpetuate itself. In fact, in all four traditions orthodoxy constructed itself by creating an inversion of the heretical other.
By highlighting the common patterns in constructions of orthodoxy and heresy in four major religious traditions, this book also sets in relief subtler variations that give each tradition a special character. In this way this study strikes a balance between the universal and the particular: it illuminates a general pattern in world intellectual history, but also shows how the traditions that illustrate this pattern are distinctive.
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