A Brief History of Heresy (by G.R. Evans) introduces readers to the problems associated with heresy over the course of the last 2000 years. The book has a concise manner to it, keeping the text meaningful yet short. GR Evans has therefore delivered a book that is accessible to all readers. It successfully discusses any problems associated with Heresy. More specifically, it discusses heresies such as Gnosticism (which was influential in the early Christian period) and modern sects.

'A Brief History of Heresy' offers an intriguing insight into the fraught history of heresy, showing how the Church came to insist on orthodoxy when threatened by alternative ideals, exploring the social and political conditions under which heretics were created, and how those involved were 'tested' and punished, often by imprisonment and burning.