material heresy

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin haeresis māteriālis.

Noun[edit]

material heresy (plural material heresies)

  1. (Roman Catholicism) An opinion that is objectively contradictory to the teachings of the Church, and as such heretical, but which is uttered by a person without the subjective knowledge of its being so.

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