Meaning | A belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion. |
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Synonym | unorthodoxy |
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Narrower | Albigensianism, Catharism | A Christian movement considered to be a medieval descendant of Manichaeism in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries |
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Arianism | heretical doctrine taught by Arius that asserted the radical primacy of the Father over the Son |
Docetism | The heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no human body and his sufferings and death on the cross were apparent rather than real |
Gnosticism | A religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element |
Marcionism | The Christian heresy / heresy of the 2nd and 3rd centuries that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Jesus as a human |
Monophysitism | A Christian heresy / heresy of the 5th and 6th centuries that challenged the orthodox definition of the two natures (human and divine) in Jesus and instead believed there was a single divine nature |
Monothelitism | The theological doctrine that Christ had only one will even though he had two natures (human and divine) |
Nestorianism | The theological doctrine (named after Nestorius) that Christ is both the son of God and the man Jesus (which is opposed to Roman Catholic doctrine that Christ is fully God) |
Pelagianism | The theological doctrine put forward by Pelagius which denied original sin and affirmed the ability of humans to be righteous |
Zurvanism | A heretical Zoroastrian doctrine holding that Zurvan was the ultimate source of the universe and that both Ahura Mazda and Ahriman were Zurvan's offspring |
tritheism | (Christianity) the heretical belief that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are three separate gods |
Broader | content, cognitive content, mental object | The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned |
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Spanish | herejía |
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Adjectives | heretical | characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards |
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