Novatianism (English, noun)
expansion: Novatianism (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A rigorist Christian sect that opposed re-admitting baptised Christians who had previously renounced their faith under persecution and by extension all those who had committed a mortal sin, founded by the priest and antipope Novatian in the third century.
tags: historical
uncountable
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