Heresy, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a "theological or religious opinion or doctrine maintained in opposition, or held to be contrary, to the catholic or orthodox doctrine of the Christian Church, or, by extension, to that of any church, creed, or religious system, considered as orthodox. By extension, [heresy is an] opinion or doctrine in philosophy, politics, science, art, etc., at variance with those generally accepted as authoritative." Heresy - Etymology. The word "heresy" comes from ...

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• Heresy - Etymology
• Heresy - Religious heresy
• Heresy - Christianity
• Heresy - Heresy in Judaism
• Heresy - Heresy in Islam
• Heresy - Contemporary heresy

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Heresy, Heresy - Etymology, Heresy - Religious heresy, Heresy - Christianity, Heresy - Heresy in Judaism, Heresy - Heresy in Islam, Heresy - Contemporary heresy

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Today, heresy can be without a religious context as the holding of ideas that are in fundamental disagreement with the status quo in any practice and branch of knowledge. Religion is not a necessary component of the term's definition. [1] For example, Charles Darwin of natural selection fame was considered a heretic of his day. Other people considered heretics were Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Copernicus, and many others. The revisionist paleontologist Robert T. Bakker, who published his findings as The Dinosaur Heresies, jokingly treated the mainstream ...

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• Cainite Heresy - Sources

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Americanism is a term for a heresy, or rather a series of related heresies, that were thought to have been held by many members of the Roman Catholic church in the United States of America around the turn of the 20th century. In essence, the label was mainly applied to American bishops by bishops and popes from other countries. Americanism heresy - Dogmatic/Theological aspect. The Americanist heresy is defined as the endorsement of what were thought to be anti-Catholic principles embraced by the Uni ...

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• Americanism heresy - Dogmatic/Theological aspect
• Americanism heresy - Social aspect

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In Christianity, Patripassianism is the belief that God the Father and Son are simply different aspects of God. The implication of this belief is that God the Father suffered on the cross. Patripassianism is closely related to Sabellianism. See also. Heresy Nontrinitarianism Trinitarianism Trinity ...

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The heresy of Peor is an event related in the torah at Numbers 25:1-15. Back references to the event occur in Numbers 25:18 and 31:16, Deuteronomy 3.28, Joshua 22:17, Hosea 9:10; Psalm 106:28. Heresy of Peor - Biblical account. The preceeding story is that of Balaam, in which a prophet, Balaam, ascends the mountain of Pe‘or, and sacrifices to God at the top of it. Having finished sacrificing, Balaam views the Israelites on the plain below, and pronounces a blessing over them, prophecying their blessed nat ...

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• Heresy of Peor - Biblical account
• Heresy of Peor - Ba‘al Pe‘or
• Heresy of Peor - Talmudic traditions
• Heresy of Peor - Balaam
• Heresy of Peor - From Moab to Midian
• Heresy of Peor - External link

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A creed is a statement of belief—usually religious belief—or faith.The word derives from the Latin credo for I believe. Creed - Christian creeds. Christianity, affirming that God has been begotten and manifest in the human being Jesus, has formulated a number of statements of faith that seek to put its doctrine in a nutshell. In this sense, perhaps the earliest statement of Christian faith is the slogan affirming that Jesus is Lord, which appears in St Paul's Epistle to th ...

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• Creed - Christian creeds
• Creed - Apostles' Creed
• Creed - A creed as a catalogue of heresies
• Creed - Other creeds
• Creed - Islamic creeds

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The Jonang or Jonangpa school of Tibetan Buddhism was founded in the early 14th century by Sherab Gyeltsen, a monk trained in the Sakyapa school. The Sakya school is constituted of it's main-branch of Ngor, of Tsar, of Bodong and of Jonang. The Jonangpa school was widely thought to have become extinct in the late 17th century at the hands of the Fifth Dalai Lama who forcibly annexed the Jonangpa monasteries to his Gelugpa school. Recently, however, researchers were surprised to discover that some remote Jonangpa monasteries esc ...

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• Jonang - History of the Jonangpa
• Jonang - Stated reason for Jonangpa suppression: the Shentong heresy
• Jonang - Additional reasons: monastery financial reform and Tibetan geopolitics
• Jonang - Current status and rediscovery by the outside world

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Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (Fontaines, near Dijon, 1090 – August 21, 1153 in Clairvaux) was a French abbot and theologian who was the main voice of conservatism during the intellectual revival of Western Europe called the Renaissance of the 12th century. The voice of conscience, the dominating figure in the Christian church from 1125 to 1153 (Cantor 1993), he was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1830. Bernard is a saint of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches and was the ...

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• Bernard of Clairvaux - Early life
• Bernard of Clairvaux - Abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Clairvaux
• Bernard of Clairvaux - Wider influence
• Bernard of Clairvaux - The schism of 1130–1138
• Bernard of Clairvaux - The contest with Abélard
• Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and the Cistercian Order
• Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and heresy
• Bernard of Clairvaux - The Second Crusade
• Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and the veneration of the Virgin Mary
• Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard's character
• Bernard of Clairvaux - Works

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Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies) is the standard name of two books on Gnosticism and other Christian heresies. A book which actually has the title On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis written by St. Irenaeus in the second century A.D. A similar book by Epiphanius of Salamis which actually has the title Panarion (medicine-chest). Other related archivesEpiphanius of Salamis, Gnosticism, Irenaeus, heresies

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Clemente Domínguez y Gómez (May 23, 1946 – March 22, 2005) was proclaimed Pope Gregory XVII by supporters of the Palmarian Catholic Church Catholic breakway movement in 1978. He was viewed by mainstream Roman Catholicism as an antipope. Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, who was born in Seville, Spain, became closely associated with the Palmar de Troya movement, which had its origins in an alleged apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary on March 30, 1968 in the village of El Palmar de Troya in the Province of ...

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• Clemente Domínguez y Gómez - Controversially ordained
• Clemente Domínguez y Gómez - Claim to the Papacy
• Clemente Domínguez y Gómez - Other claimants to the name 'Pope Gregory XVII'
• Clemente Domínguez y Gómez - Palmarian heresy
• Clemente Domínguez y Gómez - Notes

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Heresy

A doctrinal view that deviates from orthodoxy, a teaching declared to be false.

(See also: Heresy, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Heresy

A doctrinal view that deviates from orthodoxy, a teaching declared to be false.

(See also: Heresy, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

A Christian theological definition of Heresy according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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The Irish potato famine caused a mass exodus of Irish Catholics to the United States, causing Catholicism to become the United States' largest single Christian denomination, although it should be noted that America remains majority-Protestant and that this was more true then than now. Discrimination against the Irish immigrants led them to seek assimilation into U.S. culture. At the time the Catholic church in the United States was divided along ethnic lines, so that Irish Catholics ...

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Americanism heresy, Americanism heresy - Dogmatic/Theological aspect, Americanism heresy - Social aspect

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The Irish potato famine caused a mass exodus of Irish Catholics to the United States, causing Catholicism to become the United States' largest single Christian denomination. America remains majority-Protestant, and that was more true then than now. Discrimination against the Irish immigrants led them to seek assimilation into U.S. culture. At the time the Catholic church in the United States was divided along ethnic lines, so that Irish Catholics ...

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Americanism heresy, Americanism heresy - Dogmatic/Theological aspect, Americanism heresy - Social aspect

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Great Heresy. See HERESY OF SEPARATENESS

(See also: Great Heresy, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Great Initiator. See WATCHER; WONDROUS BEING

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Heresy of Separateness The belief that one's self is or can be separate in essence from all other selves. Our apparent separation is functional, not organic or real. This heresy is the one fundamental error against which all theosophical students are warned, and is alluded to in Christian mystic thought as the sin against the Holy Ghost.

See also BROTHERHOOD

(See also: Heresy of Separateness, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)