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. 3 July 2020. <>