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What does heresy mean?

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Noun
  1. (religion) A doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs, especially dissension from Roman Catholic dogma.
  2. A controversial or unorthodox opinion held by a member of a group, as in politics, philosophy or science.
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He summoned Luther to Rome to answer charges of heresy and rebelling against church authority.
The Arians of the Fourth Century helped to establish the historiographic attitude towards heresy in British Arian scholarship.
It is very difficult to find discussion of heresy or apostasy or even of dissent in Asian thought and literature.
He undertook his mission of preaching against the heresy with relish but was soon forced to admit failure.
Hooper and other prominent Protestants were held in custody until the heresy laws could be re-enacted.
Our repeated failure to reprove and adequately rebuke heresy calls into serious question our theological system.

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