Heresy vs Macedonianism - What's the difference?
heresy | macedonianism |
(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
A controversial or unorthodox opinion held by a member of a group, as in politics, philosophy or science.
a 4th-century Christian heresy that denied the full personality and divinity of the Holy Spirit (also called Pneumatomachi)
English words suffixed with -ism
As a noun heresy
is a doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs, especially dissension from Roman Catholic dogma.As a proper noun Macedonianism is
a 4th-century Christian heresy that denied the full personality and divinity of the Holy Spirit (also called Pneumatomachi.heresy
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(wikipedia heresy)Alternative forms
*Noun
(heresies)- 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.