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Heresy is defined by the Catholic Church as "the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt after the reception of baptism of some truth which is to be believed by divine and Catholic faith". The term heresy connotes both the belief in itself, and the attitude towards said belief.
This article contains the movements and denominations which have been declared as heresy by the Catholic Church. The following listing contains those opinions which were either explicitly condemned by Chalcedonian Christianity before 1054 or are of later origin but similar.
HeresyDescriptionOriginBelief that Jesus was born as a mere ...Propounded by Theodotus of Byzantium, a ...Belief that Jesus had a human body and ...Proposed by Apollinaris of Laodicea (died ...Belief that the soul perished with the ...Founder unknown, but associated with ...Denial of the true divinity of Jesus ...The doctrine is associated with Arius ( c.The Catholic Church has a very precise definition of heresy. It appears in the Code of Canon Law: “Heresy is the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt after the reception of baptism of some truth which is to be believed by divine and Catholic faith.” (cc. 751) This definition has three key elements. First, heresy is strictly limited to
HeresyDescriptionOriginBelief that Jesus was born as a mere ...Propounded by Theodotus of Byzantium, a ...Belief that Jesus had a human body and ...Proposed by Apollinaris of Laodicea (died ...Belief that the soul perished with the ...Founder unknown, but associated with ...Denial of the true divinity of Jesus ...The doctrine is associated with Arius ( c.What Is Heresy? Heresy is an emotionally loaded term that is often misused. It is not the same thing as incredulity, schism, apostasy, or other sins against faith. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, "Incredulity is the neglect of revealed truth or the willful refusal to assent to it.
Heresiology was the combative theological genre for asserting true Christian doctrine through hostile definition and ecclesiastical exclusion. In the fourth to sixth centuries the union of Christian orthodoxy with Roman political power can easily seem to modern eyes to be a bad match.
- J. Rebecca Lyman
- 2007
As I hope to show in this survey of Catholic heresiologies from the period 1520 to 15 50, controversialists encountered difficulties when they tried to conscript patristic and medieval heresy discourses into the sixteenth-century conflict.
St. Thomas (II-II:11:1) defines heresy: "a species of infidelity in men who, having professed the faith of Christ, corrupt its dogmas". "The right Christian faith consists in giving one's voluntary assent to Christ in all that truly belongs to His teaching.
