heresy | | |
n. (cognition) | 1. heresy, heterodoxy, unorthodoxy | any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position. |
| ~ iconoclasm | the orientation of an iconoclast. |
| ~ orientation | an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs. |
| ~ nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity | a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs. |
n. (cognition) | 2. heresy, unorthodoxy | a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion. |
| ~ cognitive content, mental object, content | the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned. |
| ~ arianism | heretical doctrine taught by Arius that asserted the radical primacy of the Father over the Son. |
| ~ marcionism | the Christian 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 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); condemned as heretical in the Third Council of Constantinople. |
| ~ 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; condemned as heresy by the Council of Ephesus in 431. |
| ~ 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; considered heresy by Christian churches. |
| ~ tritheism | (Christianity) the heretical belief that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are three separate gods. |
| ~ albigensianism, catharism | a Christian movement considered to be a medieval descendant of Manichaeism in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; characterized by dualism (asserted the coexistence of two mutually opposed principles, one good and one evil); was exterminated for heresy during the Inquisition. |
| ~ 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. |
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