| 单词 | heresy |
| 释义 | heresy (once / 640 pages) n A heresy is a belief that doesn't agree with the official tenets of a particular religion; heresy is the maintaining of such contrary beliefs. Heresy can be used figuratively: to disagree with the school committee's decisions is considered pure heresy by the faculty. You'll often come across this word in a religious context — the Latin root haeresis, "school of thought or sect," was used by Christian writers to mean "unorthodox sect or belief." This comes from the Greek hairesis, "a taking or choosing," from hairein, "to choose." A person who chooses to believe in heresies is called a heretic. WORD FAMILYheresy: heresies, heretical+/heretical: antiheretical, heretically USAGE EXAMPLESAt a table by the sanctuary’s carved screen, porter puritans sat with practitioners of what might be called the “chocolate-flavoring heresy.” Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) They published five dubia – doubts – virtually accusing the sitting pope of heresy: something without precedent in recent Catholic history. The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016) The very idea that the truth won’t be triumphant would, until recently, have been heresy to Stengel, a former managing editor of Time magazine. Washington Post(Nov 29, 2016) 1n a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion Syn|Hypo|Hyper unorthodoxy Arianism heretical doctrine taught by Arius that asserted the radical primacy of the Father over the Son Marcionismthe Christian heresy of the 2nd and 3rd centuries that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Jesus as a human Monophysitisma Christian heresy of the 5th and 6th centuries that challenged the orthodox definition of the two natures (human and divine) in Jesus and instead believed there was a single divine nature Monothelitismthe theological doctrine that Christ had only one will even though he had two natures (human and divine); condemned as heretical in the Third Council of Constantinople Nestorianismthe theological doctrine (named after Nestorius) that Christ is both the son of God and the man Jesus (which is opposed to Roman Catholic doctrine that Christ is fully God) Pelagianismthe theological doctrine put forward by Pelagius which denied original sin and affirmed the ability of humans to be righteous; condemned as heresy by the Council of Ephesus in 431 Docetismthe heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no human body and his sufferings and death on the cross were apparent rather than real Gnosticisma religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches tritheism(Christianity) the heretical belief that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are three separate gods Albigensianism, Catharisma Christian movement considered to be a medieval descendant of Manichaeism in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; characterized by dualism (asserted the coexistence of two mutually opposed principles, one good and one evil); was exterminated for heresy during the Inquisition Zurvanisma heretical Zoroastrian doctrine holding that Zurvan was the ultimate source of the universe and that both Ahura Mazda and Ahriman were Zurvan's offspring Mandaeanism, Mandeanisma Gnostic religion originating the 2nd and 3rd centuries that believes John the Baptist was the Messiah and that incorporates Jewish and Christian elements into a framework of dualistic beliefs cognitive content, content, mental object the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned 2n any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper heterodoxy, unorthodoxy orthodoxy a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards iconoclasm the orientation of an iconoclast nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformitya lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs orientation an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs |
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