Calvin had Sebastian Castellio run out of Geneva because he declared the “heretical” notion that the Song of Solomon was a love poem! Later Calvinists declared Arminians heretics. And so the list unfolds, with each church body—and sometimes even diminutive church bodies—proving quite ready to declare that those who disagree with it are heretics. Were we to follow this definition of heresy, we would have to deal with the entire history of the Christian church—or rather, of all Christian churches and