Heresy: Difference between revisions
→General categories of movements
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* Asceticism may be practiced by orthodox believers, especially Saints | * Asceticism may be practiced by orthodox believers, especially Saints | ||
** but as a movement that requires strict adherence it becomes heretical | ** but as a movement that requires strict adherence it becomes heretical | ||
=== atheism === | |||
* denies God or any divine existence | |||
* holds that the world exists by random chance | |||
** generally explains the world through the theory of evolution | |||
* see Materialism | |||
==== docetism ==== | ==== docetism ==== | ||
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* believed in a "secret wisdom" that was revealed only to followers | * believed in a "secret wisdom" that was revealed only to followers | ||
* came of Greek traditional religion mixed with Christianity | * came of Greek traditional religion mixed with Christianity | ||
==== materialism ==== | |||
* denies the soul | |||
* holds that humans are merely a chance construct of cells | |||
* and that human consciousness is merely a physical neurological process | |||
** holds that good will (altruism) is merely an evolutionary by-product | |||
==== modalism ==== | ==== modalism ==== | ||