As nouns the difference between apostate and heresy
is that
apostate is a person who has renounced a religion or faith while
heresy is (religion) a doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs, especially dissension from roman catholic dogma.
As an adjective apostate
is guilty of apostasy.
apostate English
Adjective
( -)
Guilty of apostasy.
- We must punish this apostate priest.
* Milton
- So spake the apostate angel.
* Steele
- A wretched and apostate state.
Noun
( en noun)
A person who has renounced a religion or faith.
(Roman Catholicism) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
Related terms
* apostasy
* apostatical
Synonyms
* deconvert
* recreant
* withersake
See also
* heretic
External links
* (Apostasy)
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heresy Alternative forms
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Noun
( heresies)
(religion) A doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs, especially dissension from Roman Catholic dogma.
* 1968 , History of Western Civilization, edited by Heyes, Baldwin & Cole, p.47. Macmillan. Library of Congress 67–13596
- Heresy meant deliberate departure from the accepted doctrines of the church. It was intellectual and spiritual dissent and concerned the beliefs of Christianity, not the morals of its adherents.
A controversial or unorthodox opinion held by a member of a group, as in politics, philosophy or science.
Related terms
* heresiarch
* heretic
* heretical
See also
* schism
* Arianism
* monophysism
* Nestorianism
* Pelagianism
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