I’m getting pretty close to done with my edits for the revised, expanded version of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy, which is now available to order.

The final word count will be about 125,000 136,000 words, which makes it about 75% 90% larger than the first edition (which was about 72,000 words). Now that I’m almost done we’re in the editorial stage, I can release a draft copy of the Table of Contents for the new book. Here it is.

Everything in italics represents a completely new section. Almost every other section has been revised or expanded in some way.

ORTHODOXY & HETERODOXY

(Revised Edition)

Finding the Way to Christ in a Complicated Religious Landscape

Andrew Stephen Damick

Table of Contents

DRAFT COPY

Foreword by Archbishop Michael (Dahulich)

Preface to the Revised Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Introduction: Doctrine Matters

The Truth Business

The Goal of Religion

The Nature of Truth

Some Technical Terms

A Brief Overview of Christian History

Chapter One: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, Heresy, and History

How the Orthodox Church Views the Non-Orthodox

Essentials of Orthodox Christian Doctrine (The Holy Trinity, Jesus Christ, Salvation and the Church)

Major Historical Heresies (Docetism, Judaizing, Gnosticism, Marcionism, Montanism, Manichaeism, Sabellianism, Novationism, Donatism, Arianism, Semi-Arianism, Chiliasm, Apollinarianism, Pneumatomachianism, Pelagianism, Nestorianism, Monophysitism, Apokatastasis, Origenism, Monothelitism, Monoenergism, Iconoclasm, Filioquism, Barlaamism, Ethnophyletism)

Chapter Two: Roman Catholicism

Did the Great Schism Produce a New Religion?

The Great Schism

Differences in Vision (Development of Doctrine, Faith and Reason, Spirituality)

The Papal Dogmas (Papal Supremacy, Papal Infallibility)

A Different God? (The Filioque, Absolute Divine Simplicity, Created Grace)

Salvation (Salvation of Non-Catholics, Original Sin, The Immaculate Conception, Merit and Satisfaction, Purgatory and Indulgences, Sacramental Validity)

Closer, Yet Further Apart: Theology, Liturgics, and Reunion

Chapter Three: The Magisterial Reformation

The End of Roman Catholic Europe

The Five Solas (Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide, Sola Gratia, Solus Christus, Soli Deo Gloria)

Magisterial Reformation Denominations Lutheranism The Reformed Churches (Calvinism, Zwinglianism) Anglicanism and its Heirs (Anglicanism, Methodism, Wesleyans)

Common Ground: What Might Have Been

Chapter Four: The Radical Reformation

The End of Ecclesiology

Pietism

Antinomianism

Scripture and Tradition

Anti-Clericalism and Anti-Sacramentalism

Believers’ Baptism

The Great Apostasy

The Invisible Church

Repudiation of Core Dogma

Denominational Families and Movements Anabaptists (Mennonites, Amish, Hutterites) Moravians Puritans Quakers and Shakers Baptists

Common Ground

Chapter Five: Evangelicalism and Revivalism

The End of Liturgy

The Great Awakenings

The New Gnostics? (Individualism, Faith as Knowledge, Dualism, Escapism, Experience and Enthusiasm)

Denominational Families and Movements Restorationism (Churches of Christ, Disciples of Christ) Adventism (Millerites, Seventh-day Adventists) The Holiness Movement (Wesleyans, Nazarenes, Christian and Missionary Alliance, Salvation Army) Dispensationalism Liberalism and Fundamentalism The Mega-Church Movement

The Future of Evangelicalism The Emerging Church The Missional Movement New Calvinism: The Young, Restless, and Reformed Ancient Future: Evangelical Appropriation of Tradition

Conclusions

Chapter Six: Pentecostalism

The Latter Rain

Origins in the Holiness Movement

“A Mighty Wave of Salvation” The Apostolic Faith Movement The Azusa Street Revival: The Spread of Pentecostalism

The Charismatic Movement

Third Wave Pentecostalism

The Word of Faith Movement The “Grandfather” of Word-Faith Faith Healing Goes Mainstream Word-Faith Takes Shape The Prosperity Gospel

Practices, Concepts, and Characteristics of Pentecostalism The Second Pentecost Speaking in Tongues Faith Healing Prophecy Anointing Spectacle and Celebrity Touch Not the Lord’s Anointed

Is This Real? Pentecostals and Orthodoxy

Chapter Seven: Non-Mainstream Christians

Many Gods, Many Christs

Unitarian Universalists

Swedenborgianism (New Church)

Mormonism

Christadelphians

Christian Science

Unity Church

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Davidian Seventh-day Adventists, Branch Davidians, and Church of God General Conference Armstrongism (Worldwide Church of God) The Way International

Unification Church (“Moonies”)

The Family International A Course in Miracles

Conclusions

Chapter Eight: Non-Christian Religions

Many Paths, Many Destinations

Judaism

Islam

Druze, Alawites, and Alevi

Zoroastrianism

Mandaeism

Yazdanism: Yazidi and Yarsan

Baha’i Faith

Hinduism

Buddhism

Jainism

Sikhism

Shinto and other Animism

Cao Dai

Modern Western Religions Santeria Rastafarianism Neo-Gnosticism Neo-Paganism and Wicca Scientology

Cargo Cults

Conclusions

Epilogue: Relations with the Non-Orthodox

Appendix I: Atheism and Agnosticism

Appendix II: How and Why I Became an Orthodox Christian

Appendix III: Orthodoxy Quick Reference

Appendix IV: Heresy Quick Reference

Index