Heresy

It was more catchy then, but just as heretical.

So he's aiming to preserve as, Heretics often are.

He would argue he had good intentions.

He was aiming to preserve the absolute uniqueness of monotheism of God the Father.

Chapter one has an interesting title.

It's titled Cessationism as Heresy.

And I'd love you to just talk about that a little bit because I've already had somebody message me about it who I'm fairly confident hadn't read past the title.

So what did we mean by that?

He did not see Paul as being at odds with his interpretation, interestingly, and, uh, at least the bits he considered to be authentically Paul, which is a different story.

Um, and the Valentinians probably also use Paul, uh, here, you know, so, uh, that they they would not have seen themselves as that out of line with with other christians obviously we have what's proto-orthodox in clement in iranius um of leon uh justin martyr and they're very critical of these these kinds of sects they go after them we have um Hippolytus in Refutation of the Heresies, which is a great work because it gets into all the weird stuff, all the very bizarre mythological stuff that these guys talk about.

So we have those criticisms.

And then we have Oregon of Alexandria, who's a bit of a, you know, by mainstream Christian standards, he's a heretic as well.

boom.

What happened? Heresy.

What happened? Division.

What form did it take? So many possibilities.

I was part of the US White Dwarf team for a couple years.

If you like the lore for Dark Heresy, Rogue Traders, The Inquisition, The Death Watch, uh, I wrote a whole bunch of lore for all of those things that are actually still going in the current era, so I'm pretty excited about that.

And today's topic is Archmagos Dominus, Belisarius Cawl.

He's, he's probably one of the ...

I'll just say it, it, the thing is the, the whole creation of them is a massive, huge event.

It's one of the biggest things that's ever occurred in Warhammer 40,000, and Cawl is the guy who did it.

According to the background material, uh, right after the second founding, uh, Guilliman, Roboute Guilliman, the Primark, the, uh, Primark of the Ultramarines, this was right after the Horse Heresy and he was seeing a, he was, he was looking ahead to where the Imperium was gonna be in, in real trouble not long ...

You know, it's, it's, it was, it was going to be a, a, a future full of strife.

Booker Prize-winning Australian novelist, Richard Flanagan, presents a new essay at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas inspired by his book.

This is the 2026 session, Heresies.

Thank you all for coming.

When I set out gathering articles for my new book, Heresies, I was struck how over the years some themes kept recurring.

It's time all of us began to walk away from Omelas.

Thank you for listening.

[audience applauding] [upbeat music] This session was recorded live in Sydney in 2026.

The Festival of Dangerous Ideas is presented by The Ethics Center.

You're going to enjoy the damn festival and that's all there is to it.

Heresy and the Lockheed.

In last week's episode, we fought a vampire.

It appeared out of the mist and Livrax set a tree on fire.