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• theanthropism go
  (theology) the doctrine that Jesus was a union of the human and the divine
  
• predetermination, predestination, foreordination, preordination go
  (theology) being determined in advance
  
• Neoplatonism go
  a system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism
  
• spiritualism go
  (theology) any doctrine that asserts the separate existence of God
  
• Christology go
  a religious doctrine or theory based on Jesus or Jesus' teachings
  
• antinomianism go
  the theological doctrine that by faith and God's grace a Christian is freed from all laws (including the moral standards of the culture)
  
• Thomism go
  the comprehensive theological doctrine created by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century and still taught by the Dominicans
  
• Arianism go
  heretical doctrine taught by Arius that asserted the radical primacy of the Father over the Son
  
• Athanasianism go
  the theological doctrine taught by Athanasius that Christ the Son is of the same substance as God the Father
  
• Boehmenism, Behmenism go
  the mystical theological doctrine of Jakob Boehme that influenced the Quakers
  
• consubstantiation go
  the doctrine of the High Anglican Church that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists with the substance of the consecrated bread and wine
  
• Episcopalianism go
  the theological doctrine of church government by bishops
  
• Erastianism, Byzantinism, Caesaropapism go
  the doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters
  
• Hinayanism go
  the religious doctrine of Hinayana Buddhism
  
• Jansenism go
  the Roman Catholic doctrine of Cornelis Jansen and his disciples
  
• Mahayanism go
  the religious doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism
  
• Marcionism go
  the Christian heresy of the 2nd and 3rd centuries that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Jesus as a human
  
• millenarianism, millenarism, millenniumism, chiliasm go
  belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations
  
• Monophysitism go
  a Christian heresy of the 5th and 6th centuries that challenged the orthodox definition of the two natures (human and divine) in Jesus and instead believed there was a single divine nature
  
• Monothelitism go
  the theological doctrine that Christ had only one will even though he had two natures (human and divine)
  
• Nestorianism go
  the theological doctrine (named after Nestorius) that Christ is both the son of God and the man Jesus (which is opposed to Roman Catholic doctrine that Christ is fully God)
  
• Pelagianism go
  the theological doctrine put forward by Pelagius which denied original sin and affirmed the ability of humans to be righteous
  
• Quakerism go
  the theological doctrine of the Society of Friends characterized by opposition to war and rejection of ritual and a formal creed and an ordained ministry
  
• rationalism go
  the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth
  
• reincarnation go
  the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of Hell) depending on the person's own actions
  
• Rosicrucianism go
  the theological doctrine that venerates the rose and the cross as symbols of Christ's Resurrection and redemption
  
• synergism go
  the theological doctrine that salvation results from the interaction of human will and divine grace
  
• total depravity go
  the Calvinist doctrine that everyone is born in a state of corruption as a result of original sin
  
• transubstantiation go
  the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist
  
• universalism go
  the theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved
  
• Virgin Birth, Nativity go
  the theological doctrine that Jesus Christ had no human father
  
• Docetism go
  the heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no human body and his sufferings and death on the cross were apparent rather than real
  
• Gnosticism go
  a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element
  
• Zurvanism go
  a heretical Zoroastrian doctrine holding that Zurvan was the ultimate source of the universe and that both Ahura Mazda and Ahriman were Zurvan's offspring