| Popular Radical Christian Heretics Origen - Platonist, baptismal salvation, self inflicted castration Montanus - oneness teacher Tertullian - Montanist, baptismal salvation Roman Emperor Constantine - began Caesaropapism which is a merger of the title Caesar with the highest bishop position of all Christian churches, laid groundwork for the Roman Catholic Church and the papacy Marcion - First Liberal Christian, believed that the God of the Jews was not the God of Christians, rejected the Old Testament, rewrote the Gospel of Luke, listed what books he thought was canonical, didn't believe Jesus was the Jewish Messiah, believed the God Monad of Gnosticism was the true God Arius - Taught that Jesus is not God and that Jesus is a created being. St. Jerome - embraced uninspired scripture, replaced Biblical grace with determinism St. Augustine - grace replaced with determinism, forced people to repent, infant baptism, taught that God preselected who would go to Heaven Pelagius - Go here John Calvin - founder of Calvinism and Reformed Churches, infant baptism, believed that God preselected individually who would go to Heaven and Hell Cornelius Jansen Joseph Smith - founder of Mormonism, polygamist Charles H. Spurgeon - Calvinist Carlton Pearson - Preaches that no one is going to Hell in his Gospel of Inclusion. -- under construction -- BACK |