Unorthodoxy

• Gnosticism

  A religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual...

• Arianism

  Heretical doctrine taught by Arius that asserted the radical primacy of the Father over...

• Marcionism

  The Christian heresy of the 2nd and 3rd centuries that rejected the Old Testament and...

• Monophysitism

  A Christian heresy of the 5th and 6th centuries that challenged the orthodox definition...

• Monothelitism

  The theological doctrine that Christ had only one will even though he had two natures...

• Nestorianism

  The theological doctrine (named after Nestorius) that Christ is both the son of God...

• Pelagianism

  The theological doctrine put forward by Pelagius which denied original sin and affirmed...

• Docetism

  The heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no human body and...

• Zurvanism

  A heretical Zoroastrian doctrine holding that Zurvan was the ultimate source of the universe...

Theology

• predetermination

  (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated...

• theanthropism

  (theology) the doctrine that Jesus was a union of the human and the divine.

Also contains

• rationalism

  The theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes...

• Jansenism

  The Roman Catholic doctrine of Cornelis Jansen and his disciples; salvation is limited...

• millenarianism

  Belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Reve...

• Hinayanism

  The religious doctrine of Hinayana Buddhism.

• Mahayanism

  The religious doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism.

• Quakerism

  The theological doctrine of the Society of Friends characterized by opposition to war...

• reincarnation

  The Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of...

• Rosicrucianism

  The theological doctrine that venerates the rose and the cross as symbols of Christ's...

• synergism

  The theological doctrine that salvation results from the interaction of human will and...

• total depravity

  The Calvinist doctrine that everyone is born in a state of corruption as a result...

• transubstantiation

  The Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine...

• universalism

  The theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved.

• Virgin Birth

  The theological doctrine that Jesus Christ had no human father; Christians believe...

• Neoplatonism

  A system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism...

• spiritualism

  (theology) any doctrine that asserts the separate existence of God.

• Christology

  A religious doctrine or theory based on Jesus or Jesus' teachings.

• antinomianism

  The theological doctrine that by faith and God's grace a Christian is freed from all...

• Thomism

  The comprehensive theological doctrine created by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century...

• Athanasianism

  The theological doctrine taught by Athanasius that Christ the Son is of the same substance...

• Boehmenism

  The mystical theological doctrine of Jakob Boehme that influenced the Quakers.

• consubstantiation

  The doctrine of the High Anglican Church that after the consecration of the Eucharist...

• Episcopalianism

  The theological doctrine of church government by bishops.

• Erastianism

  The doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters.