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Meaning of antinomianism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
æntiˈnoʊmi.ənɪzəm

Definitions

  1. The belief or teaching that because only the spiritual "law of faith" (Romans 3:27) is essential for salvation, obedience to any practical or moral law has no role to play, even as a guide to conduct or as a test of the genuineness of faith.
  2. Opposition to the Torah.

Equivalents

Deutsch Antinomismus
Suomi antinomismi
Bahasa Indonesia antinomianisme
Italiano antinomismo
Polski antynomizm
Română antinomism
Svenska antinomism

Examples

“Near-synonyms: solifidianism, sola fide
Always containing seeds of antinomianism, mysticism inevitably undermined that authority, but because the church's hegemony rested on mystery, mysticism could not altogether be prohibited. The common will to reach God was too strong, and the church was political before it was anything else.”
“In the 1970s, [Daniel] Bell saw antinomianism all around him, and his thesis struck a chord with many. Well, antinomianism never hit many places in America, like the evangelical Christian communities.”

CEFR level

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