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  • NEGATIVE Hereticshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/NEGATIVE-Heretics

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS

    to re-baptize such as had been baptized in their Infancy. There were Anabaptists even in the Primitive Church; that is, Heretics who baptized a second time: Such were the Novatians, Cataphrygians, and Donatists. See NOVATIAN, CATAPHRYGIAN, and DONATIST....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACEPHALUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACEPHALUS

    Of those who in the affair of the Council of Ephesus refused to follow either St. Cyril or John of Antioch.Of certain heretics of the Vth century who at first followed Peter Mongus, but afterwards abandoned him upon his subscribing to the Council of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ASCODROUTEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCODROUTES

    Antiquity, a Sect of Heretics, in the second Century, who rejected all Use of Sacraments, on this Principle, that incorporeal Things cannot be communicated by Things visible and corporeal. See SACRAMENT. They made perfect Redemption consist in the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APOSTOLOCIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTOLOCI

    called also Apostoni, and Apostites, a Name assumed by two different Sects of Heretics, on account of their pretending to imitate the Manners and Practice of the Apostles. See APOSTLES. The first Apostolics, otherwise called Apostolici and Apostatici,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANTHROPOCOMORPHITEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHROPOCOMORPHITE

    one who attributes to God, the Figure of a Man. See GOD, etc. Anthropomorphites were a Sect of ancient Heretics, who, out of a too great Simplicity, taking everything spoken of God in the Scriptures in a literal Sense, imagined He had real Hands, Feet,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APHTHARTODOCITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APHTHARTODOCITES

    Aphtartodocetae, a Sect of Heretics, sworn Enemies of the Council of Chalcedon. They arose among the Byzantines, and made their first appearance in the Year 535. See MONOPHYSITE. The Word is derived from the Greek ἄφθαρτος, incorruptible, and δοκέω, I...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARCHONTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ARCHONTICS

    Archontici, in Church History, asect of heretics who arose towards the close of the secondcentury. See HERETIC. They were thus called from the Greek word ἀρχήPrincipalities, or Hierarchies of Angels; because theyheld the world to have been created by...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Theology

  • APELLITAEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APELLITAE

    Heretics in the Primitive Church, who taught that Christ left his Body dissolved in the Air; and so ascended into Heaven without it. APELLITAE

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARABICIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABICI

    were also a kind of heretics, who sprang up in Arabia, about the year 207; whose distinguishing tenet was that the soul died with the body, and also rose again with it. See RESURRECTION. Eusebius, lib. vi. c.38, relates that a council was called to stop...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANTIDICOMARIANITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIDICOMARIANITES

    or Antidicomarianites, ancient Heretics, who pretended that the Holy Virgin had not preserved her Virginity, but that she had several Children by Joseph. See VIRGIN. Their Opinion was grounded on some Expressions of our Saviour, wherein he mentioned his...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APOLLINARISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOLLINARISTS

    Apollinarians, ancient Heretics, who denied that Jesus Christ assumed true Flesh. Apollinaris of Laodicea, their Leader, fancied I know not what strange kind of Flesh, which he supposed to have existed from all Eternity——He distinguished between the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION

    votes or voices for the Affirmative. See VOTE. "Affirmative" is particularly applied in the Roman Inquisition, to such heretics as own the errors and opinions they are charged withal; and maintain the same in their examination with firmness and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALBIGENSEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ALBIGENSES

    seems rather one of those pious frauds allowed particularly in that church, which esteems it a kind of merit to blacken heretics. However this be, the Albigenses grew so formidable in a little time, that a Holy League or Crusade was agreed upon among...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Geography

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    of his Oration to Caesar, for Ligarius. SOMETHING like this has been observed, even in the Case of Prayer to God: Several Heretics are on record for possessing their Hearers that way. Racket, executed for Blasphemy under Queen Elizabeth, is said, by the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • APOCRYPHALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCRYPHAL

    Book, Passage, History, etc., meaning, such as are of suspected Authority—In Matters of Doctrine, the Writings of Heretics, Schismatics, etc. are held apocryphal. Vossius observes, that with regard to the sacred Books none are to be accounted...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AQUARIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AQUARIANS

    AQUARIANS, Aquarii, a kind of Heretics in the third Century, so called from the Latin, aqua, Water; because they used nothing but Water in the Sacrament. See EUCHARIST. It is said the Occasion of the Abuse was owing to the Persecution which prevailed...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ADAMITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADAMITES

    ADAMITES, Adamitae, a sect of ancient heretics who took upon them to imitate the nakedness of Adam; as if man had been reinstated in his original innocence. They assisted in the temples naked and had to do with women in public. Prodicus was their...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANGELICIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGELICI

    were also a Sect of ancient Heretics.—St. Augustine supposes them thus called from their yielding an extravagant Worship to Angels, and such as tended to Idolatry: Though Epiphanius derives the Name from their holding that the World was created by...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AGNOETEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGNOETES

    or Agnoites, a denomination given to certain ancient heretics, who denied that Christ foreknew the Day of Judgment. The word is Greek, "Agnoetai," formed from "agnoeo," meaning, "I do not know." Eutychius, Patriarch of Alexandria, ascribes this heresy...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
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