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heresy From the Greek, meaning ‘choice’ or ‘thing chosen’, or an opinion. It came to be used (in the Greek) for a sect or a school of philosophy, and of the ‘sects’ of the
Sadducees and the
Pharisees in Acts 5: 17; 15: 5. It is used by Paul for a protest group in
Corinth (1 Cor. 11: 19) and for a typical kind of divisive action in the
community (Gal. 5: 20), where the word is on its way to its later designation of a deviationist group within Christianity. By the end of the 1st cent.
Ignatius of
Antioch termed theological error a ‘heresy’ and, in the later Church, heresy, as deliberate adherence to ‘false’ doctrine, was condemned as sinful.
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Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edited by Ian Hunter...Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. xii, 205. $99.95.) Ideas of heresy are indeed in transition, not only across the chronological...
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Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edited by Ian Hunter...intention to chart transformations in the social construction of heresy from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. This is...
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Heresy, Literature and Politics in Early Modern English Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001273 Heresy, Literature and Politics in Early Modern...leads one to conclude that the idea of heresy may well be the single most useful point...shows how fruitful a close examination of heresy can be. The creation of heresy, inasmuch...
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Gillian R. Evans. A Brief History of Heresy.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...ways of dealing with heresy. In particular, Evans...the rise of dissent and heresy at the end of the Middle...chapter "Classifying Heresies," for example, mentions...system of classifying heresies or for some other theological...true that questions of heresy played a more prominent...
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Milton and Heresy.
Magazine article from: Church History; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...cloudiness is the elastic term "heresy" which, as envisioned...indeterminate and fluid: "heresy evolves into orthodoxy, from which new heresies eventually depart" (2...Arianism, the keystone heresy of heresies in the history of Christianity...
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Heresy and orthodoxy: challenging established paradigms and disciplines.
Magazine article from: Journal of International Women's Studies; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...discussion of issues relating to orthodoxy and heresy are presented to introduce a questionnaire...relationship of interdisciplinary work and heresy, are proposed and a plan of further work...words: Interdisciplinarity, gender, heresy 1. Introduction: Interdisciplinary Research...
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Judging the French Reformation: Heresy Trials by Sixteenth-Century Parlements.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Judging the French Reformation: Heresy Trials by Sixteenth-Century Parlements...instruments of its campaign of repression. The heresy trials of these courts is the subject...comprehensive history of the legal repression of heresy in sixteenth-century France. Monter...
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A Brief History of Heresy.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...anti-establishment" heresies and reviews the Waldensians...authorities dealt with heresy, including preaching...only a brief history of heresy, the major problem with...major Christological heresies of the fifth and sixth...Ages, but with medieval heresy as well. Furthermore...
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Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why It Matters What Christians Believe
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/2008; ; 601 words
; ...expand to cover some heresies in Medieval Christianity...of Elipandus and the heresy of the Free Spirit associated...Those who study these heresies will not find any new...the positive aspects of heresy and to appreciate the...associated with particular heresies and demonstrates the...
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Can we talk about heresy?(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 4/12/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...means raising the issue of heresy. But in the "liberated...of oldline denominations heresy simply does not exist...struggle against recurrent heresies, Christians have found a quick way of overcoming heresy: they have banished the...
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Heresy and Apostasy
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...form of Christian heresy originates in Jewish...author of every kind of heresy. Perhaps the most prominent of heresies is Arianism, which...other early Christian heresies were Manichaeism and...for the leaders of heresy. For Augustine...
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heresy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
heresy is the holding of religious views regarded...specifically to deal with it. Accusations of heresy were rarely made against lay people, who...error when it was pointed out to them. Heresy was hardly a problem in the Anglo-Saxon...
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Heresy
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...heresiography a systematic exposition on heresy. heresiology 1. Theology. the study of heresies. 2. a reference work on heresies. — heresiologist , n. heresy 1. a religious opinion or doctrine at variance...
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Christian Mystery Schools, Cults, Heresies
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
Christian Mystery Schools, Cults, Heresies The Christian Mystery Schools were largely...religious practices. Originally, the word "heresy" was an unemotional term that meant to...Christian mystery schools, cults, and heresies that have influenced millions of individuals...
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Heresy, György
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Heresy, Gy ö rgy ( b . Budapest, Hungary, 1 August 1885; d . Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 6 July 1966) radiochemistry...
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