antinomianism

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Theologically, antinomianism is the belief that there are no moral laws God expects Christians to obey.

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  1. noun Theology The doctrine or belief that the Gospel frees Christians from required obedience to any law, whether scriptural, civil, or moral, and that salvation is attained solely through faith and the gift of divine grace.
  2. noun The belief that moral laws are relative in meaning and application as opposed to fixed or universal.

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  • This doctrine is known as antinomianism, the doctrine that the Elect are free of all constraint by laws. —  One Stop Thought Shop
  • This antinomianism is no part of true Mysticism; but it is often found in conjunction with mystical speculation among the half-educated. —  Christian Mysticism
  • Only a moral restlessness, a perhaps half-conscious lack of adaptation to her circumstances, accounted for the antinomianism which took hold upon her. —  Our Friend the Charlatan
  • That Bruno himself, in "the enthusiasm of the idea," drew from his axiom of the "indifference of contraries" the practical consequence which is in very deed latent there, that he was ready to sacrifice to the antinomianism, which is certainly a part of its rigid logic, the purities of his youth for instance, there is no proof. —  Giordano Bruno
  • That Bruno himself, in "the enthusiasm of the idea," drew from his axiom of the "indifference of contraries" the practical consequence which is in very deed latent there, that he was ready to sacrifice to the antinomianism, which is certainly a part of its rigid logic, the austerities, the purity of his own youth, for instance, there is no proof. —  Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance
 

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/æntɪˈnoʊmɪənɪzm/
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