Offers a new account of Tolstoi's relationship with the Orthodox Church, showing how the novelist was influenced by his Christian heritage.

Beginning with Walter Bauer in 1934, the denial of clear orthodoxy in early Christianity has shaped and largely defined modern New Testament criticism, recently

How do we distinguish between truth and error? Which differences in belief should be tolerated? A leading researcher, Bowman shows how and where Christians must

Presents the first systematic and cross-cultural examination of ideas of orthodoxy and heresy in a group of major religious traditions.