Outcasts and Heretics: Profiles in Independent Thought and CourageLexington Books, 2007 - 352 páginas Sharpes paints profiles of individuals who stood up against oppressing forces and overwhelming odds. Offering numerous profiles of varying lengths, the selection ranges from such well-known twentieth-century figures as Gandhi, to little-known and neglected historical figures, such as John Leo. |
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Contenido
GREAT SOULS OF THE MODERN AGE | 13 |
Dr Martin Luther King Jr 19291968 | 18 |
Bantu Steven Biko 19461977 | 23 |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali 1969 | 26 |
TWENTIETHCENTURY DISSENTERS | 31 |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer 19061945 | 32 |
Kaj Munk 18981944 | 34 |
World War II German Army Deserters | 36 |
Emperor Julian 331363 | 148 |
Nestorius 381451 | 153 |
Original Sin and Grace | 160 |
Boethius c 475524 | 162 |
HERESY IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY | 167 |
Islam and the Infidels | 168 |
Islamic Dissidents | 170 |
The Crusades 10951291 | 174 |
Edith Stein 18911942 | 38 |
Aung San Suu Kyi 1945 | 41 |
Authors and Outsiders | 43 |
AMERICAN OUTSIDERS | 49 |
Roger Williams c 16031683 | 50 |
Thomas Paine 17371809 | 53 |
Cochise c 18151874 | 61 |
Red Cloud 18221909 | 63 |
SKEPTICAL SCIENTISTS AS DISSIDENTS | 67 |
Charles Darwin 18091882 | 70 |
Natural Selection Over Time | 74 |
Evidence About Human Origins | 76 |
Intelligent Design | 79 |
WITCHES AND OTHER PAGANS | 83 |
Alice Kyteler Medieval Irish Witch | 86 |
Witches Among the Puritans | 87 |
Mary Dyer 16111660 | 90 |
Modern Wiccas | 94 |
THE LEGACY OF RELIGIOUS HERESY AND DISSENT | 99 |
PRECHRISTIAN DISSENTERS | 101 |
Greek Mystery Religions | 103 |
Sources of the Literary Tradition | 104 |
Anaxagoras c 500428 BCE | 106 |
Protagoras c 490420 BCE | 107 |
Empedocles c 492432 BCE | 109 |
Socrates 469399 BCE | 110 |
Chinese Ideologies | 111 |
On the Nature of the Gods | 113 |
The Religion of the Romans | 115 |
HERETICS IN THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CENTURIES | 119 |
First Century Rome | 122 |
Apollonius of Tyana Contemporary of Jesus | 128 |
Marcion c 85160 The Heretic | 131 |
Tertullian c 160230 and the Montanists | 134 |
The Proliferation of Heresies | 138 |
Cyprian of Carthage c 200258 | 142 |
THE AGE OF RELIGIOUS DISSENSION | 145 |
The Rise of the Military Orders and the Fall of the Templars | 178 |
The Crusade Against Heretics and the Cathars | 180 |
Peter Abelard 10791142 | 186 |
Roger Bacon c12141292 Alchemist | 187 |
Heretics Condemned | 190 |
LATE MEDIEVAL REFORMERS AND INTELLECTUAL DISSENTERS | 193 |
John Wycliffe c13281384 | 194 |
John Hus 13731415 | 200 |
Cecco dAscoli 12571327 and Astrology | 203 |
Marcilius Marsiglio of Padua c 12751342 | 205 |
Saint Joan 14121431 | 207 |
William Tyndale 14941536 | 212 |
Girolamo Savonarola 14521498 | 218 |
RENAISSANCE DISSENTERS | 221 |
Giordano Bruno 15481600 | 222 |
Thomas More 14781535 | 227 |
Johannes Kepler 15711630 | 232 |
Rene Descartes 15961650 | 233 |
Baruch Benedict Spinoza 16321677 | 238 |
Voltaire 16941778 | 241 |
TWO QUEENS ONE PRINCESS | 247 |
Mary Stuart Queen of Scots 15421587 | 248 |
Queen Christina of Sweden 16261689 | 257 |
Elisabeth von der Pfalz Princess Palatine 16181680 | 263 |
ENLIGHTENMENT DISSENTERS | 269 |
Denis Diderot 17131784 | 271 |
PhilipAugustin Caron de Beaumarchais 17321799 | 274 |
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier 17431794 | 278 |
JeanAntoineNicolas Caritat Marquis de Condorcet 17431794 | 281 |
EPILOGUE | 287 |
ORIGIN OF THE JESUS LEGEND | 293 |
CHURCH COUNCILS | 295 |
NOTES | 299 |
GLOSSARY | 319 |
REFERENCES | 321 |
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