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Article: Later heresies.(CHURCH FATHERS: FINAL INSTALLMENT)
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- March 1, 2006
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As mentioned before (Feb. 2006, p. 20), Basil drew a triple distinction between heresies, schisms, and illicit assemblies of rebellious clerics and laymen. This was an evident attempt to cool the theological temperatures. There are some indications of success. For instance, the normally fiery Epiphanius (The Anchored Man 68) specifies that the Meletians, an Egyptian re-run of the African Novatians with their stern attitude towards re-admission of lapsed brethren to the Church, "are a schism, not a heresy."
However, this same Epiphanius deemed it necessary to compile an account of 80 heresies (a tally possibly inspired by the "fourscore concubines" of Song of ...
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