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Ephraim Pagitt
Ephraim Pagit (Pagitt) (c. 1575 – April 1647) was an English clergyman and heresiographer. His ''Heresiography'' of 1645 was a precursor of the better-known ''Gangraena'', and is a well-referenced account of contemporary sectarian Protestantism in England. In fact the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' indicates that the title of this book was a neologism, derived by analogy from ''Christianography'', an earlier title, to indicate a catalogue or classification of heretics. By political conviction Pagit was a royalist, but he was sufficiently opposed to the religious Independents to support Presbyterianism. Life The son of Eusebius Pagit, he was born in Northamptonshire, probably at Lamport, about 1575. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 25 May 1593, being eighteen years old. There is no evidence of his graduation, but he is said to have been a great linguist, writing fifteen or sixteen languages. On 19 August 1601 he was admitted to the rectory of St. Edmund the King, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heresiographer
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 orthodoxy in the Christian state church of the Roman Empire. 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. 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. See also *Doxo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |