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Line 1: {{Useful Notes}} ~~{{trope}}~~ Below is a list of well-known heresies and heretics found within real life religions. Line 8 ⟶ 7: * The ''Catechism of the Catholic Church'' has an official definition of ''heresy'', which it juxtaposes against its definitions of incredulity, schism, and apostasy. {{quote\| Incredulity is the neglect of revealed truth or the willful refusal to assent to it. '''Heresy is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and Catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same'''; apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith; schism is the refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him" (CCC 2089).}} You may have noticed something important in that definition -- the heresy is only a heresy when it knowingly and willfully contradicts established Catholic teaching. The Catholic Church has a habit of not granting strict definitions to doctrine until it becomes a major issue, due to issues of opportunity and urgency -- the divinity of Christ, while held and intuited by a large portion of Christians to varying degrees, wasn't formally defined until after Constantine legalized Christianity in the early 4th century, for example. '''NOTE''': Since the following points illustrate the history of the Catholic Church's view of heresies, the point-of-view of the history and reasoning is ''Catholic''. [[Flame Bait\|You have been warned.]] Line 41 ⟶ 40: * Joan of Arc was also examined for any possible heretical beliefs. (She got [[Burn the Witch\|burned]] on a technicality, dressing as a man.) * Origen, a Christian mystic, was accused of Heresy for believing in [[wikipedia:Universal redemption\|Universal Redemption]]. ** Which is actually false. He is still regard a church father (though not a saint) [[wikipedia:Origen#Origen.27s influence on the later church\|in most of mainstream christainity.]] Universal Redemption was a widely accepted doctrine taught by many saints and church fathers at the time (including his teacher [[wikipedia:Clement of Alexandria\|St. Clement of Alexandria]]). The real reason was that about 2 centuries later some of his ideas (deemed "too platonic" were condemned [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf214.xii.ix.html by the church] for various reason, but universal redemption was not one of them. === Islam === Line 57 ⟶ 56: {{reflist}} ~~[[Category:Useful Notes]]~~ [[Category:Heresies And Heretics]]