Philosophy Heresy

Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For 18th-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman explores who we have become in the three centuries that separate us from the early Enlightenment. In the process, she rewrites the history of modern thought and points philosophy back to the questions that originally animated it.

Origen Battles Pagan Critique: Against Celsus Origen of Alexandria (c. 185–254 AD), one of the most influential thinkers of the early church, wrote Against Celsus to defend Christianity against the sophisticated attacks of the pagan philosopher Celsus. Fearless confrontation with Celsus’ critiques of Christian teachings, Scripture, and moral practice. Insightful explorations of miracles, prophecy, and the life of Jesus. Shows how early Christians engaged thoughtfully with Greco-Roman philosophy and culture. Demonstrates the intellectual depth and logical rigor of early Christian thought...

'Heresy is a brilliant book' - The Times 'Enthralling' - The Sunday Telegraph ‘In the beginning was the Word,’ says the Gospel of John. This sentence – and the words of all four gospels – is central to the teachings of the Christian church and has shaped Western art, literature and...

'Heresy is a brilliant book' - The Times 'Enthralling' - The Sunday Telegraph ‘In the beginning was the Word,’ says the Gospel of John. This sentence – and the words of all four gospels – is central to the teachings of the Christian church and has shaped Western art, literature and...