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Full Definition of HERESY. 1. a: adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma b: denial of a revealed truth by a baptized member of the Roman Catholic Church c: an opinion or doctrine contrary to church dogma.
The Catholic Church makes a distinction between 'material' and 'formal' heresy. Material heresy means in effect holding erroneous doctrines through no fault of oneÂ´s own as occurs with people brought up in non-Catholic communities and is neither a crime nor a sin since the individual has never accepted the doctrine.ther forms of Christianity were viewed as deviant streams of thought and therefore  heterodox , or heretical. This view was dominant until the publication of Walter Bauer 's Rechtglaeubigkeit rechtglÃ¤ubigkeit Und ketzerei im Aeltesten (Ã¤ltesten christentum orthodoxy and heresy In) ancient christianity. in 1934