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Antinomianism

//æntiˈnoʊmi.ənɪzəm// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. countable, uncountable

    "Near-synonyms: solifidianism, sola fide"

  2. 2
    the theological doctrine that by faith and God's grace a Christian is freed from all laws (including the moral standards of the culture) wordnet
  3. 3
    Opposition to the Torah. Judaism, countable, uncountable

Etymology

From antinomian + -ism, coined by Martin Luther, notably used in his Against the Antinomians (1539).

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