TY - JOUR N2 - Heresy is usually defned as an error concerning the content of faith. In this article heresy is shown as a sin requiring conversion and penance and not just a withdrawal of one’s views. A sin of heresy is compared to adultery or idolatry, for which the same penance used to be assigned (e.g. Synod of Elvira in 306, can. 22). In this context the condemnation of Nestorius by the Council of Ephesus in 431 is characteristic because it is focused on the insult to Jesus Christ and not on erroneous conceptions. It is also the case with the formulas of condemnation of heretics where such invectives as contamination, sacrilegium or perfdia were often used, and those terms belong to the feld of morality rather than to intellectual disputes or differences. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/98001/PDF/Pietras.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/98001 PY - 2011-2012 IS - Tom 6-7 EP - 50 DO - 10.24425/snt.2011-2012.112736 KW - heresy KW - sacrilege KW - sin KW - error KW - condemnation KW - synodical acts A1 - Pietras SJ, O. Henryk PB - Polskia Akademia Nauk - Komitet Nauk Teologicznych DA - 2012 T1 - Heresy as a Sin against the Holiness of the Church. Remarks on Synodical Regulations in Late Antiquity SP - 39 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/98001 T2 - Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN ER -