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Ancient Heterodoxies

This category is geared to sites reviewing the major heresies denounced by the Christian Church through the Seventh Ecumenical Council (787 AD), the last accepted by both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.

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• - Founded by Arius, belief asserting that Christ was not God like the Father, but a creature made in time. Rejected by the Council of Constantinople (381).
  
• - A modification of Monophysitism proposing that Christ had no human free will. Rejected by the Third Council of Constantinople (680).
  
• - An account and analysis of belief systems declared heretical by the Catholic Church. Site is sharply critical of authority and religion, and especially of the Church.
  
• - Includes ancient and modern documents.
  
• - The theory that the man Jesus at some point in time became the Son of God only by adoption. Strictly speaking, refers to an eighth-century Spanish heresy, but the term is also used to cover similar beliefs.
  
• - Belief attributed to Nestorius that Christ's two natures reflect two persons, and denying of the Virgin Birth. Rejected by the Council of Ephesus (431).
  
• - Docetism, from the Greek "dokeo" (to seem, to appear) was the contention that Christ merely seemed to be human and only appeared to be born, to suffer, and to die. Already in New Testament times, the Gospel of John opposes Docetism, and so do Ig
  
• - Said that the creator "god" of the Old Testament was not the good God and Father of Jesus Christ of the New Testament. Had their own shadow hierarchy and their own Bible, which consisted of parts of Luke and Paul, edited so as to disparage the O
  
• - Rejected the dual nature of Christ. Rejected by the Council of Chalcedon (451).
  
• - The so-called Dynamic Monarchians were actually a form of adoptionism. Monarchianism, properly speaking, refers to the Modalists. Denial of the Trinity, assertion that there is only one Divine Person, who appears in three different roles. Noetians and Sa
  
• - Fourth-century Christological heresy propounded by Apollinaris of Laodicea. The theory that Jesus had a human body and soul, but that the Logos took the place of the human spirit or mind in Jesus. Solemnly condemned at the Council of Constantinople in 381
  
• - Two varieties: the earlier group called Ebionites denied the divinity of Christ; the later Ebionites were a Gnostic sect who believed that matter was eternal and was God's body.
  
• - Belief founded by Pelagius that denied original sin as well as Christian grace. Rejected by the Council of Carthage (481)
  
  

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