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Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, mainline Protestantism: Binitarianism is a Christian heresy that teaches that there are only two persons in the Godhead: the Father and the Son. The Holy Spirit is not considered to be a separate person, but rather an aspect of the Son or the Father. [20] Subordinationism
[1] Canon 3 of the ecumenical Fourth Council of the Lateran, 1215 required secular authorities to "exterminate in the territories subject to their jurisdiction all heretics" pointed out by the Catholic Church, [2] resulting in the inquisitor executing certain people accused of heresy. Some laws allowed the civil government to employ punishment. [3]
The judicial system of Texas has a reputation as one of the most complex in the United States, [10] with many layers and many overlapping jurisdictions. [11] Texas has two courts of last resort: the Texas Supreme Court, which hears civil cases, and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Except in the case of some municipal benches, partisan ...
Protestantism was denounced as heresy, and those supporting these doctrines could be excommunicated as heretics. Thus by canon law and depending on the practice and policies of the particular Catholic country at the time, Protestants could be subject to prosecution and persecution: in those territories, such as Spain, Italy and the Netherlands ...
The Treatise on Heretics, in its full form the Treatise on Heretics: whether they should be persecuted, and how they should be treated according to the opinion and judgment of various authors, both ancient and modern (in Latin: De Haereticis, an sint persequendi et omnino quomodo sit cum eis agendum, doctorum virorum tum veterum, tum recentiorum sententiae), is a theological and patristic ...
Heresy in Christianity denotes the formal denial or doubt of a core doctrine of the Christian faith [1] as defined by one or more of the Christian churches. [2]The study of heresy requires an understanding of the development of orthodoxy and the role of creeds in the definition of orthodox beliefs, since heresy is always defined in relation to orthodoxy.
Members of these groups generally consider the term Campbellite inappropriate, saying that they are followers of Jesus, not Campbell. [3] [4] [5]: 85–87 [6]: 91–93 They draw parallels with Martin Luther's protest of the name Lutherans [7]: 162, 163 and the Anabaptists' protest of the name given to them by their enemies.
Martin Luther – One of the first Protestant reformers in the 16th century, the term Lutheran was coined when Catholics labelled like-minded people Lutherans following the practice of naming a heresy after its leader in an attempt to discredit it. The Ninety-Five Theses (31 October 1517) – Martin Luther's list of complaints against the church.