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Apostacism

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Ostronomos Offline
When were the earliest writings on apostacism? Were they in Biblical times? Or during the renaissance and middle ages in the 4th century a.d. ?
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Magical Realist Offline
What is apostacism? I googled it and came up with nothing.
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(May 19, 2022 07:25 PM)Ostronomos Wrote: When were the earliest writings on apostacism? Were they in Biblical times? Or during the renaissance and middle ages in the 4th century a.d. ?

The concept was in the Bible, but not necessarily elaborated on in enough depth to settle some of the future issues that much later treatises fretted over. 

Apostasy in Christianity: The Greek noun apostasia (rebellion, abandonment, state of apostasy, defection) is found only twice in the New Testament (Acts 21:21; 2 Thessalonians 2:3). However, "the concept of apostasy is found throughout Scripture." The related verb aphistēmi (go away, withdraw, depart, fall away) carries considerable theological significance in three passages (Luke 8:13; 1 Timothy 4:1; Hebrews 3:12).

Apostasy (in general): Apostasy is certainly a biblical concept, but the implications of the teaching have been hotly debated. The debate has centered on the issue of apostasy and salvation. Based on the concept of God's sovereign grace, some hold that, though true believers may stray, they never totally fall away. Others affirm that any who fall away were never really saved. Though they may have "believed" for a while, they never experienced regeneration. Still others argue that the biblical warnings against apostasy are real and that believers maintain the freedom, at least potentially, to reject God's salvation.



(May 19, 2022 08:02 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: What is apostacism? I googled it and came up with nothing.

It's just "apostasy" modified by the suffix "-ism", as if its users believe that when one rejects or abandons an _X_, the act itself is thereby referencing some kind of specific practice or ideology.

An instance of the term occurring in "recent" literature...

American Medicine in Transition, 1840-1910 (1983; page 105): In the nineteenth century, the homeopathic system of medicine devised by Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) became one of the more successful descendents of Stahlian animism. [...] Revolution and the overthrow of age-old institutions and authorities occurred during the period Hahnemann was making his own break from traditional medicine. [...] His system of homeopathy, as one doctor remarked in 1869, marked "the last remnant of the Dark Ages of medicine which has come down to modern times." Hahnemann's aposticism was not without precedent, as ideas of earlier medical men had often matured during times of political and social turmoil.
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apostasy: "The state of having rejected your affiliation, religious or political beliefs, or principles (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)."
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