antinomianism

American  

[an-ti-noh-mee-uh-niz-uhm] / ˌæn tɪˈnoʊ mi əˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. Theology. the belief that Christians, by virtue of divine grace, are freed not only from biblical law and church-prescribed behavioral norms, but also from all moral law.

   In his 1539 book, Luther contrasts antinomianism with the true gospel, stressing that law is good and drives us to Christ and to daily repentance.

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Etymology

Origin of antinomianism

antinomian + -ism

Example Sentences

The free love script stands in the 2,000-year-old history of what scholars call antinomianism in Christian thought.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2022

Colonial America had seen its share of religious battles, in which arcane theological disputes like the one over antinomianism caused Puritans to be banished from Massachusetts and have to go establish colonies like Rhode Island.

From Time Magazine Archive

What I may call the Utopian scheme of education, far from making for antinomianism and anarchy, is the sworn enemy of individualism and therefore, a fortiori, of everything that savours of licence.

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond

But Wesley was observing with concern the spread of a practical antinomianism, which on every possible ground he hated and feared.

From Fletcher of Madeley by Macdonald, Frederic W.

Only a moral restlessness, a perhaps half-conscious lack of adaptation to her circumstances, accounted for the antinomianism which took hold upon her.

From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George