Dancing in the Kingdom- Table of Contents
Appendix F – Partial Listing of Heresies
| Adoptionism | Jesus was adopted as God’s son when he saw that the human Jesus lived a sinless life |
| Antinomianism | Since we are saved by grace, we don’t need to obey laws |
| Apollinarianism | Christ had a human body and human “living principle” but that the Divine Logos had taken the place of the nous, or “thinking principle”, analogous but not identical to what might be called a mind in the present day. |
| Arianism | Jesus was created and is not equal to God |
| Asceticism | Denying physical pleasures |
| Docetism | Jesus’s humanity was an illusion. |
| Donatism | Christian clergy must be completely faultless in order for their evangelism to be effective and their prayers and sacraments to be valid |
| Dualism | The evil God created the physical universe and the good God created the spiritual universe. |
| Eutychianism | the human nature of Christ was essentially obliterated by the Divine, “dissolved like a drop of honey in the sea”. |
| Gnosticism | (personal spiritual knowledge) which took primacy over Gospel teachings, traditions, and ecclesiastical authority |
| Judaizers | Gentiles must get circumcised and obey the Old Testament laws |
| Legalism | To receive salvation something must be done besides receiving God’s grace |
| Macedonianism | Denied that the Holy Spirit was God |
| Marcionism | A form of dualism |
| Modalism | Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three different modes or aspects of God, rather than three distinct persons within the Trinity. |
| Monarchianism | Denied the deity of the Holy Spirit |
| Montanism | heavy emphasis on the spontaneous move of the Holy Spirit and a more legalistic personal morality. Revelations of Montanist prophets supersede the apostles |
| Novationism | Refused to readmit Christians who had denied their faith while under persecution |
| Patripassianism | God the Father suffered and died on the cross along with God the Son, or, more properly, the Father suffered as the Son. |
| Pelagianism | Original Sin did not taint human nature and that the human will is freely capable of choosing good or evil without any divine assistance. |
| Rationalism | all truth, all knowledge of God, is accessible by the human mind. Discards supernaturalism. |
| Subordinationism | God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are inferior to God the Father |
| Unitarianism | Having one God, means denying the concept of the Trinity |
| Universalism | All people will be saved |
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