Heresy
Edmund Bonner
Mary’s Bishop of London, who examined, degraded, and condemned more Protestant martyrs than any other English bishop.
Irenaeus of Lyons
The bishop of Lyons whose Against Heresies overthrew Gnosticism and grounded the faith in the apostolic Scriptures.
John Longland
The king’s confessor and Bishop of Lincoln who led the great persecution of the Buckinghamshire Lollards in 1521.
Major Schisms in Church History
A chronological overview of major schisms in church history and the doctrinal, political, and institutional divisions that produced them.
Maximus the Confessor
The monk who suffered mutilation and exile for confessing that Christ has a true human will as well as a divine one.
Peter Abelard
The brilliant Paris teacher who pioneered scholastic method and taught the moral influence theory of the atonement.
Tertullian
The North African apologist who first used the word “Trinity” and gave the doctrine its Latin vocabulary.
The Great Bible
How the Great Bible of 1539 brought Tyndale’s work into every English parish church under royal authority.
Thomas More
The brilliant humanist and Lord Chancellor who wrote thousands of pages against Tyndale and Luther and prosecuted English evangelicals.
