The consolidation of orthodoxy is, however, the theme of Richard Flower’s chapter on heresiological catalogues (which interestingly contrasts Epiphanius’s multiplication of sects with Theodoret’s gloating over their obsolescence), of Rebecca Rist’s account of the licensing of torture in canon law to defend the faithful from the aggressive perversion of truth, and of Christine Caldwell Ames’s reflections on the zeal of the inquisitor in constructing the heresy that he desires to uproot.