Unit 1: Heresies
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Gnosticism | Flesh is bad (asceticism), Salvation in Knowledge |
| Neo-Platonism | God is untouchable and unknowable |
| Docetism | Jesus is spirit only |
| Montanist Heresy | anti authority, simple way of life, they thought they were recieving divine prophecy and wanted to turn it into doctrine. |
| Donatist | purifying the church, apostatized priests not allowed back in |
| Arianism | Christ was not God |
| Manichaeism | dualism: two gods (good and evil) constant war |
| Pelagianism | denied predestination, original sin, man can live a sinless life |
| Heresy | an opinion or doctrine not in line with the accepted teaching of the church; the opposite of orthodoxy |
| Schism | agrees with doctrine but not practices |
| Ontology | the study of being |
| Homoousios | of one substance |
| orthodoxy | straight teaching |
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