Concept cluster: Philosophy > Christian heresies or sects
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(historical, theology) A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.
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(Christianity) A supporter of Arianism.
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An Augustinian.
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A scholar of Samuel Beckett's writings.
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The beliefs of the Blackloists.
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Relating to boralfs.
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(historical) The beliefs of the Brownists, or followers of Robert Browne.
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(historical) A Utraquist.
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Alternative form of Calvinist [Of or pertaining to Calvinism.]
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A member of an ancient Gnostic sect founded by Carpocrates.
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A follower of Christopaganism.
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(historical) A follower of Damian of Alexandria, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
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A writer of the Didache
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Relating to the Donatists.
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A follower of Erasmus.
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A follower of Thomas Erastus.
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A follower of Eusebius.
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The religious beliefs of the Flacians.
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(by extension, sometimes derogatory) A Christian.
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The central religious text in Raelianism
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The Haugean religious movement.
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(Christianity, historical) A supporter of Helvidius' religious views.
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(historical) A follower of Heracleon of Alexandria, who offered mystical and allegorical interpretations of Scripture.
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The religious practices of the Hesychasts.
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The principles of the Illuminati.
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(historical) A follower of Benjamin Ingham (1712–1772), English cleric and founder of the Moravian Church in England as well as his own religious societies.
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The doctrines and practices of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
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Jehovist beliefs or principles generally.
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A follower of John the Baptist.
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(historical) An adherent to the doctrines of Jovinian, a monk of the fourth century, who denied the virginity of Mary and opposed the asceticism of his time.
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Relating to, or characteristic of the German Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher.
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The religious practices of the Labadists.
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pertaining to Laodicea
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(historical) The Laudian movement.
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(historical) One of the followers of the fourth-century bishop Lucifer of Cagliari, who separated from the orthodox churches because they would not go as far as he did in opposing the Arians.
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A member of this school of theology.
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(Christianity) Of or pertaining to the theology of Martin Luther (1483–1546) or his followers, or the Lutheran church.
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(Christianity, Gnosticism, philosophy, historical) Marcion of Sinope, 2nd century AD theologian, philosopher, preacher and founder of Marcionism, a Hellenistic Christian religious belief system influenced by Gnostic theology; compiled the first Biblical canon, consisting solely of Greek New Testament scriptures, totally rejecting the scriptural authority of the Hebrew Tanakh adopted as the canonical Old Testament of the Christian Bible
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(Christianity) An early Christian following akin to but distinct from gnosticism which rejected the validity of the Old Testament and essentially denied the Trinity, regarding God the Father as an inferior demiurge, and that Jesus had nothing to do with the First Person of the Trinity.
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A follower of Marcionism.
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A member of a Gnostic sect founded by Marcus.
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The doctrines or actions of the Maurists.
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A believer in Miaphysitism, (specifically) a member of the Oriental Orthodox Church.
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(Christianity, derogatory) A member of the Oriental Orthodox Church.
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(by extension, sometimes derogatory) The beliefs and practices of the Church of the East.
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(Christianity) Of or relating to the Nestorians.
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A person who supports the Nicene Creed.
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A supporter of the Nicene Creed.
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A member of an early Christian sect (Nicolaism), said to participate in certain pagan ceremonies.
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(historical) A Nicolaitan.
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(historical) A follower of Noetus, a presbyter of the church of Asia Minor about AD 230, who denied the distinct personality of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
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A follower of Novatianism.
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A Novatian.
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The religious beliefs of the Nuwaubian Nation.
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A person who follows orthodox beliefs.
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An evangelical Christian movement in the late 20th and early 21st centuries that emphasizes the ancient Christian consensus of the undivided Church of the first millennium AD.
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Describing the early Christian church, its people, architecture and culture, etc.
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A believer in Saint John's apocalyptic vision.
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A Paulian.
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(historical) A Christian sect and militarized revolt movement that flourished between 650 and 872 in Armenia and the Eastern Themes of the Byzantine Empire.
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A follower of the Photian bishops, a sect in the 17th century that questioned the supremacy of the Pope believing that the Christian Church should be governed by 12 supreme rulers.
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A Latin grammarian, Priscianus Caesariensis
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(historical) A follower of Priscillian, bishop of Avila in Spain in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manichaeism with Christianity.
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One of the Glasites who received the doctrines through Robert Sandeman.
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A believer in Sebastianism.
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(historical) An adherent of certain heretical sects in the early Christian church.
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(historical) A member of Smectymnuus, a group of Puritan clergymen active in England in 1641.
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A member of a particular nontrinitarian Christian denomination founded in the late 16th century.
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A person who, in the controversy over who wrote William Shakespeare's plays, holds that it was William Shakespeare himself.
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Of or relating to Tanchelm (died 1115), a heretical itinerant preacher, critical of the established Roman Catholic church, active in the Low Countries around the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries.
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(historical, religion, Christianity) An adherent of the teachings of early Christian theologian Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; c.155-c.240 CE).
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(historical) One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century.
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The Valentinian Gnostic movement.
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(historical) A gnostic theologian living in Egypt and Rome (c.100 - c.153).
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A follower of Zwingli, who disagreed with Luther in rejecting the doctrine of the presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

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