Antinomianism

Quick meaning: Antinomianism is a noun meaning (Judaism) Opposition to the Torah.

Meaning

(Judaism) Opposition to the Torah.

More Meanings

1. (Christianity) 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.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: solifidianism, sola fide

In the 1970s, [Daniel] Bell saw antinomianism all around him, and his thesis struck a chord with many. Well, antinomianism never hit many places in America, like the evangelical Christian communities.

Always containing seeds of antinomianism, mysticism inevitably undermined that authority, but because the church's hegemony rested on mystery, mysticism could not altogether be prohibited. The common will to reach God was too strong, and the church was political before it was anything else.

Word Forms

• antinomianisms

Synonyms for antinomianism

Depending on context, synonyms include antinomism, solifidianism.

Antonyms for antinomianism

Common opposites include legalism, nullifidianism.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include adoptianism, justiciary, adamitism, apocatastasis, adoptian, adoptionism.

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