: : Wow, antinomianism! We'll make a muggletonian of you yet, man.: Pardon, qu'est que c'est le antinomianism?
Well, it means 'Against Law', in its specific relgious connotations it means that through jesus we are relieved of the need to obey God's law (usually interpretated to mean the Jewish Laws of Leviticus, but certain radical sects such as the Ranters, Muggletonians, early Quakers (they don't have preists man) etc. as being freed from *all* God's laws, basically). Since The Ten Commandments were a part of God's punishment, according to some, for the fall, redemption through christ meant redemption here and now from God's Law.
Its very much tied up with the doctrine of Justification by faith, taken to an extreme end, your works no longer matter at all, only your faith, thus redemption matters.
Again, its the heaven on Earth, millenial deal. best examples are E.P.Thomson's book 'Witness Against The beast' and that books subject- the poet William Blake, one of my favourites.
Another similar heretical thought is mortalism, the idea that when teh body dies, so does the soul, and that come the last days we will physically be resurrected- Jpoh Milton (anotehr Christian poet), was an example of this. These are the sorts of religious non-conformists trends that held a worldy agenda, as non-conformism/protestantism generally lost steam it retreated into quietism, and otherworldly redemption, etc. Again, Thompson's 'Making of the English working Class' covers some of these points.
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