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anathema (ənă`thĭmə) [Gr.,=something set up; dedicated to a divinity as a votive offering], term that came to denote something devoted to a divinity for destruction. In the Bible, the term is herem. Anathema means "accursed" in the New Testament, where it clearly suggests separation from God as the penalty. In the early Church and in Judaism contemporaneous with it, it was a penalty conveyed by a decree of excommunication excommunication, formal expulsion from a religious body, the most grave of all ecclesiastical censures. Where religious and social communities are nearly identical it is attended by social ostracism, as in the case of Baruch Spinoza, excommunicated by the Jews. ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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church's tendency toward exclusivity disturbed her: the Latin term
used to excommunicate, anathema sit, made her cringe. Constantinople II set out a list of what might be
called linguistic rules of the game: If anyone says that Christ had two
natures but denies by this that Christ was one, anathema sit. |
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