(Greek: hairesis, choice)
Deciding for oneself what one shall believe and practise instead of accepting the truth taught by Christ, and His moral teachings. Heresies profiled in this document include:
- Adoptionism
- Albigensianism
- Antinomianism
- Apollinarianism
- Arianism
- Catharism
- Donatism
- Hussites
- Joachimites
- Nestorianism
- Monothelitism
- Nestorianism
- Pelagianism
- Sabellianism
- Semi-Pelagianism
- Waldensianism
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