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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 (mär`shən, mär`sēən), c.85–c.
..... Click the link for more information. . 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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5) Wright argued that debates about the issue of grace did not define the theological outlook of Lambe's Bell Alley Church at this early date, but rather those disputes took place within that congregation that seems to have combined both free-willers and high-Calvinist antinomians.
The influence of Calvinism on seventeenth-century English Baptists: ... by Briggs, John / Baptist History and Heritage
Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind) "Today, the role seems to be reversed: private antinomians and public moralizing.
The Ten Commandments for Preachers by Weyermann, Andrew M. / Currents in Theology and Mission
David Hume on Puritan-era factions: "The Antinomians even insisted that the obligations of morality and natural law were suspended, and that the elect, guided by an internal principle more perfect and divine, were superior to the beggarly elements of justice and humanity.
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