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Heresy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heresy is proposing some unorthodox change to an established system of belief, especially a religion, that conflicts with the previously established opinion of scholars of that belief such as canon.<...
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Christian heresy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In 1418, Sigismund succeeded in winning his brother over to the standpoint of the council by pointing out the inevitability of a religious war if the heretics in Bohemia found further protection. Hussite statesmen and army leaders had to leave the country, and Roman Catholic priests were reinstated.
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Amazon.com: The Great Medieval Heretics: Five Centuries of Religious
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However, the church was indirectly involved, as it provided the theological foundation for the persecution of heretics in civil courts. ... The Inquisition did not concentrate its activity against Witches. It was primarily interested in exterminating religious heretics.
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Next to the word cult, Witchcraft is probably the most misunderstood religious term in the English language. ... All kinds of religious heretics, non-conformists, and devout Christians were targeted as Satan worshipers, individually tortured and burned alive during the Burning Times (circ 1450 to 1792 CE) in Europe.
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The term heresy comes from the Greek haireisthai, which means 'to choose.' Heresy is not so much the rejection of a religious authority as it is the rejection of a particular religious authority in favor of some other religious authority - an unorthodox one, to be specific. ... Christian history is full of heresies, heretics,
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