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Heresy, Orthodoxy, Schism (Christian)


Subject Religion » Christianity

Key-Topics heresy , orthodoxy

DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631181392.1995.x


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[xiii.b] ‘Orthodoxy’ is Christian belief adjudged correct by a Church Authority. ‘Heresy’ is denial of an officially defined doctrine of the Church. (‘Heretics’ sometimes, naturally, denounce the official church as heretical.) Roman catholicism nowadays allows for the relative innocence of those brought up in a heretical environment. ‘Schism’ is deliberate separation from the church without the involvement of doctrinal error [80]. For Roman Catholicism this means those out of Communion with the Papacy (the severity of this view was mitigated by the Second Vatican Council) [1: 355–66] ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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