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  1. Sep 6, 2022 · "This is the leading, full-scale comprehensive dictionary of philosophical terms and thinkers to appear in English in more than half a century. Written by a team of more than 550 experts and now widely translated, it contains approximately 5,000 entries ranging from short definitions to longer articles.

  2. link.springer.com · 978/3/031-38971-9_1578-1Heresy - SpringerLink

    Sep 17, 2024 · In the twenty-first century, heresy is defined as a belief that goes against orthodox religious doctrine or teaching. Heresy is more than just a mistaken belief; instead, heresy is a belief in profound opposition to an orthodox religious belief (Muhammad, 2021 ).

  3. Sep 3, 2020 · This article explores (1) ecclesiastical backgrounds and (2) two significant theological definitions of the concept of heresy. Then (3) the rarity of the heresy-charge is discussed. From this (4) a few provisional conclusions are drawn.

    • Aza Goudriaan, Aza Goudriaan
    • 2020
  4. The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy.1 With respect to Spinoza, the use of the term ‘heresy’ has an important historical precedent, since the Jewish community of Amsterdam used the term when they expelled Spinoza on 27 July 1656.

    • Aza Goudriaan
  5. Sep 6, 2024 · Heresy, theological doctrine or system rejected as false by ecclesiastical authority. In Christianity, the church regarded itself as the custodian of divine revelation, obligated to keep its teachings uncontaminated. Learn more about the history of combating heresy in Christianity.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  6. link.springer.com · 10 · 978/1/4020-9729-4_208Heresy - SpringerLink

    In C.24 q.3 cc.26–31 Gratian offers materials toward a definition of heresy drawn mainly from Jerome and Augustine. The texts quoted suggest that a person who has been a member of the church becomes a heretic by pertinaciously maintaining a false doctrine despite correction.

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  8. Here, as a matter of definition, the heretics, those that challenge the prescribed beliefs of a group of believers (either privately or publicly held), are the enemy of the ideology. The heretics are the outsiders who are inside the group, attempting to corrode the foundations of the truth.