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heresy

Derivation

  • Greek: hairesis, choice

Article

Deciding for oneself what one shall believe and practise instead of accepting the truth taught by Christ, and His moral teachings.

Profiled Heresies

  • Abecedarians
  • Abelians
  • Abelites
  • Abelonians
  • Adelphians
  • Adoptionism
  • Albigensianism
  • Antidicomarianites
  • Antinomianism
  • Antitrinitarians
  • Apollinarianism
  • Arianism
  • Arminianism
  • Bogomili
  • Cathari
  • Catholic Encyclopedia – Apostolics
  • Catholic Encyclopedia – Nicolaites
  • Docetae
  • Donatists
  • Ebionites
  • Enthusiasts
  • Euchites
  • flagellants
  • Gnosticism
  • Hussites
  • iconoclasm
  • Macedonianism
  • Messalians
  • Monophysites
  • Monophysitism
  • Monothelites
  • Monothelitism
  • Montanists
  • Nestorianism
  • nicholaism
  • nicolaism
  • nicolaitanes
  • nicolaites
  • nicolationism
  • Novatianism
  • Ophites
  • Paulicians
  • Pelagianism
  • Priscillianism
  • quietism
  • Seleucians
  • Semipelagianism
  • The Filthy
  • Traducianism
  • Tritheists

MLA Citation

  • “heresy”. New Catholic Dictionary. CatholicSaints.Info. 18 October 2008. Web. 27 January 2021. <>
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