Download a heretic9/27/2023 ![]() However, it came to mean the "party, or school, of a man's choice", and also referred to that process whereby a young person would examine various philosophies to determine how to live. Heresiology is the study of heresy.ĭerived from Ancient Greek haíresis ( αἵρεσις), the English heresy originally meant "choice" or "thing chosen". Heresy is distinct from apostasy, which is the explicit renunciation of one's religion, principles or cause and from blasphemy, which is an impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things. Heresy in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam has at times been met with censure ranging from excommunication to the death penalty. Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, particularly the accepted beliefs or religious law of a religious organization. Illumination from the Grandes Chroniques de France, c. In the background is the Gibbet of Montfaucon and, anachronistically, the Grosse Tour of the Temple. ![]() The burning of the pantheistic Amalrician heretics in 1210, in the presence of King Philip II Augustus.
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