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antinomianism
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antinomianism (ăntĭnō`mēənĭzəm) [Gr.,=against the law], the belief that Christians are not bound by the moral law, particularly that of the Old Testament. The idea was strong among the Gnostics, especially Marcion Marcion , c.85–c.160, early Christian bishop, founder of the Marcionites, one of the first great Christian heresies to rival Catholic Christianity. He was born in Sinope. He taught in Asia Minor, then went (c.135) to Rome, where he perfected his theory.
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. Certain heretical sects in the Middle Ages practiced sexual license as an expression of Christian freedom. In the Protestant Reformation theoretical antinomian views were maintained by the Anabaptists and Johann Agricola, and in the 17th cent. Anne Hutchinson was persecuted for supposed antinomianism. Rom. 6 is the usual refutation for antinomianism.


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Contributors take on such topics as Bunyan's political progress, his retreat from the violent and political, his politics as a young man, and his perceptions of authority and the politics of sexuality, as in the roles of women in his life and work, his perception of the Puritan self, his sexual wordplay, his relations with the antinomians and their thought, and his place in the politics of remembrance and trauma.
At their worst, freed today from moral and religious "core beliefs," they become antinomians.
Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind) "Today, the role seems to be reversed: private antinomians and public moralizing.
 
 
 
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