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	Antinomianism
		Antinomianism in Christian theology is a pejorative term for a heresy that teaches that Christians are under no obligation to obey the laws of ethics or morality.
		Antinomianism is the polar opposite of legalism, the notion that obedience to a code of religious law is necessary for salvation.
		The first people accused of antinomianism were found, apparently, in Gnosticism; various aberrant and licentious acts were ascribed to these by their orthodox enemies; we have few independent records of their actual teachings.
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	Defining Antinomianism
		True antinomianism did not abandon the idea of obedience and godly living, as is evident in the life and teaching of those who bore the title, even if it is believed that their theological assumptions drew such conclusions.
		Antinomianism was chargeable with an over emphasis upon the distinctive differences between law and grace and failing (or consciously choosing not) to seek continuity between the legal and the gracious.
		Antinomianism denied such involvement of men, and the denial of this basic premise was the undoing and unraveling of the whole premise of federalism.
	www.soundofgrace.com /v7/n6/antdfindkh.htm (4318 words)

	ANTINOMIANISM
		Dispensational antinomianism holds that keeping the moral law is at no stage necessary for Christians, since we live under a dispensation of grace, not of law.
		Dialectical antinomianism, as in Barth and Brunner, denies that biblical law is God’s direct command and affirms that the Bible’s imperative statements trigger the Word of the Spirit, which when it comes may or may not correspond exactly to what is written.
		Situationist antinomianism says that a motive and intention of love is all that God now requires of Christians, and the commands of the Decalogue and other ethical parts of Scripture, for all that they are ascribed to God directly, are mere rules of thumb for loving, rules that love may at any time disregard.
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	Antinomianism
		Antinomianism (Greek anti,"against"; nomos,"law") is the doctrine that faith in Christ frees the Christian from obligation to observe the moral law as set forth in the Old Testament.
		At a synod of Congregational churches in 1637 Hutchinson was condemned as an antinomian, enthusiast, and heretic, and banished from the colony.
		In general the various antinomian controversies in history have clarified the legitimate distinctions between law and gospel and between justification and sanctification.
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	Antinomianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.
		Modern autonomous man is aided and abetted in his apostasy from God by the antinomianism of the church, which, by denying God's law, has, in theology, politics, education, industry, and all things else, surrendered the field to the law of the fallen and godless self, to autonomy.
		Antinomians are not likely to criticize immorality in others, and the greatest source of immorality since 1776 has been the State.
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	Antinomianism
		From Germany Antinomianism soon travelled to England, where it was publicly taught, and in some cases even acted upon, by many of the sectaries during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.
		Indeed, to such an extent were extreme Antinomian doctrines held, and even practised, as early as the reign of Charles I, that, after Cudworth's sermon against the Antinomians (on John, ii, 3, 4) was preached before the Commons of England (1647), the Parliament was obliged to pass severe enactments against them (1648).
		As the doctrine of Antinomianism, or legal irresponsibility, is an extreme type of the heretical doctrine of justification by faith alone as taught by the Reformers, it is only natural to find it condemned by the Catholic Church in company with its fundamentally Protestant tenet.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/antinomianism.html (1818 words)

	The History of Antinomianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Antinomianism, though never a confessional movement or a movement constrained to a particular historical church movement, is as much a part of the Reformation as was federal theology.
		It is understandable that antinomianism would first arise, as a child of the Reformation, alongside Lutheranism, as Luther’s early emphasis upon the relationship of men to God in salvation stressed a stark contrast between law and grace.
		As it was in England, the Antinomian Controversy of New England was an intramural federalist debate; it involved Puritans debating with Puritans.
	www.soundofgrace.com /v7/n5/antinomianism-hartley.htm (4823 words)

	Antinomianism - Theopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Antinomianism, meaning lawlessness, is the idea that members of a particular religious group ascribe to a theology that effectively removes any obligation to obey the laws of ethics or morality.
		Antinomianism is viewed as the polar opposite of legalism, the notion that obedience to a code of religious law is necessary for salvation.
		In the history of American Puritanism, Roger Williams was accused of antinomian teachings by the Puritan leadership of New England.
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	Antinomianism
		The most well-known of these early Antinomians were the Marcionists, who believed that the salvation came to humans in the Garden of Eden, when the serpent delivered the Knowledge of Good and Evil to an unsuspecting Adam and Eve.
		In plainer English, the Antinomian Gnostics were sort of "anti-Buddhists," who believed that souls were endlessly reincarnated until the owner of the soul had experienced every imaginable vice, at which point they ascend to a higher realm.
		The last of history's great Antinomians was Anne Hutchinson, a Puritan woman who resembled many of her Antinomian predecessors in that she talked a good game, but led a remarkably chaste and seemingly wholesome life.
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	Antinomianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Antinomianism (from the Greek αντι, "against" + νομος, "law"), or lawlessness (in the Greek Bible: ανομια), in theology, is the idea that members of a particular religious group are under no obligation to obey the laws of ethics or morality as presented by religious authorities.
		The first people accused of antinomianism were found, apparently, in Gnosticism; various aberrant and licentious acts were ascribed to these by their orthodox enemies.
		In the Apostolic Constitutions, verse 6.19[1], Simon Magus is accused of antinomianism, though traditionally he is accused of Simony.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antinomianism (2580 words)

	Enter the Living Temple
		Antinomianism can be traced to the 2nd century Gnostics, (the Davidists and Familists are the most well known antinomian Gnostic cults) from which the concept that moral law is not obligatory emerged.
		Antinomianism represents a historical methodology and post-modern evolution of individualized thought that seeks freedom from the confines of cultural, social and genetic/memetic programming.
		The entire antinomian spirit is motivated by a praxis that denies the blind acceptance of ideas no matter their source.
	www.xeper.org /wpridgen/antinomian.html (1623 words)

	Banner of Truth Trust General Articles
		There are countless different 'branches' of antinomianism, but we are safest and clearest sticking to two basic varieties: 'practical' and 'doctrinal', to which must be added, in addition, the particular dimension presented by New Covenant Theology.
		Let it be understood straight away: it will be found that the major casualties of antinomianism are the honour of God (most important of all), and then, following on from that, holiness of life and the fourth commandment.
		The editor of New Focus strenuously refutes any accusation of antinomianism, in the light of some editions of the magazine having 'questioned the emphasis in some quarters on the ten commandments and their role in the life of a believer'.
	www.banneroftruth.org /pages/articles/article_detail.php?747 (1882 words)

	Legalism, Antinomianism and Biblicism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Antinomians use the book of Romans (Romans 3:28, in particular) to teach that justification before man is by faith only (or by a public profession of faith), not by works.
		Antinomians make too great a distinction between justification and sanctification, viewing them as totally separate concepts and giving the impression that sanctification is optional.
		Antinomianism is a religion of intellectual assent that denies the need for practical righteousness.
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	JewishEncyclopedia.com - ANTINOMIANISM: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Paul's Antinomianism seems to have exercised most influence upon the Gnostic Marcion (who taught in Rome about 150), whose dualism, unlike that of other Gnostics, is not the cause, but the result, of his pronounced Antinomianism (Harnack, "Dogmengeschichte," iii.
		The influence exerted by Antinomianism on the conduct of life proved to be of a twofold nature; while Marcion and Tatian were led by it to extreme asceticism, with the Gnostics it resulted in libertine practises which contributed not a little to their ultimate downfall.
		I am inclined to blame them for their levity, inasmuch as they ought to pay regard to both the accurate investigation of the things hidden and the faithful observance of those laws which are manifestly stated.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=1585&letter=A&search=antinomianism (1649 words)

	“Justification From Eternity” by G.C. Berkouwer
		This antinomianism is not simply a radical disavowal of the validity of the law in the life of believers.
		Had antinomianism merely disavowed that faith was a condition precedent to justification, it could still have maintained the real character of the correlation between faith and justification, and with this could have withstood the nomism which makes a causal relation out of this correlation.
		Antinomianism is a sorry chapter in the Church’s history, but it can serve well as a sharp warning to every member of the Church that the way of Christian truth is not the thin thread of speculation, but the concrete revelation of God in Word and Act.
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	Antinomianism
		But antinomianism says salvation is based on faith in God and therefore obedience to God's law is not necessary at any stage in a Christian's life.
		The apostle John referred to this antinomian heresy in verse 6: "If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not live by the truth." These people were claiming that they were saved by grace through faith alone, and that they were not under law anymore.
		Antinomianism is a heresy that must be rejected.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /~gvcc/radio_trans/antinomianism.html (2236 words)

	ANTINOMIANISM CHARACTERIZED
		While antinomianism is making such rapid strides through the land, and has already convulsed and disorganized so many of our churches, it is no season for half measures; danger is to be repelled by intrepid resistance, by stern defiance, not by compliances and concessions.".
		On this account it appears to me improper to speak of antinomianism as a religious error; religion, whether true or false, has nothing to do with it; it is rather to be considered as an attempt to substitute a system of subtle and specious impiety in the room of Christianity.
		In its own estimation, its disciples are a privileged class, who dwell in a secluded region of unshaken security and lawless liberty, while the rest of the Christian world are the vassals of legal bondage, toiling in darkness and chains.
	www.gospeltruth.net /Antinomianism/antinom_char.htm (865 words)

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		Antinomianism = (against the Law) = the belief that Christians are not bound by the Moral Law of God, particularly that of the Old Testament.
		The antinomianism of the late 17th Century was much different from the antinomianism of the 16th Century.
		He was not in the same class of antinomians as the licentious antinomian heretical groups of England, but he did espouse a different doctrine that of the Reformers.
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	Rod Jordan - high priest of the antinomians
		That the preaching of the "Word of the truth of the Gospel" should have been attended with Antinomian consequences upon any mind, however illiterate, can be accounted for only by the singular tendency of man to oscillate, in his opinions and practices, from one extreme to another.
		Pharisaism and Antinomianism have their birth in the mind of the same devil, and feed off of one another.
		The term Antinomian signifies one who is against the Law, hence, when we declare that ours is an age of lawlessness, it is only another way of saying that it is an age characterized by Antinomianism.
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	Antinomianism in the Sabbatian and Frankist movements
		In some cases the antinomianism expresses itself in the elimination of regular prohibitions because of the coming of the sacred/messianic time of freedom from all mundane prohibitions (e.g.
		All these kinds of antinomianism (especially types 1 and 3) are typical for mystical traditions of all cultures (Tantric yogins and mahasiddhas, Sufi, Taoists, Zen monks, Sabbatianism, etc.).
		But it seems to me that Oriental religions (because of their predominantly mystical characters) treat antinomianism much better and milder than the Western/Mediterranean religions: for the Eastern people antinomianism is a sign of mystical progress of the holy practitioners and for the Westerners it is just a heresy.
	www.kheper.net /topics/Kabbalah/antinomian.htm (179 words)

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