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ANATHEMA, eccl. law. A punishment by which a person is separate from, the body of the church, and forbidden all intercourse with the faithful: it differs from excommunication, which simply forbids the person excommunicated, from going into the church and communicating with the faithful. Gal. 1. 8, 9. |
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church's tendency toward exclusivity disturbed her: the Latin term
used to excommunicate, anathema sit, made her cringe. Constantinople II set out a list of what might be
called linguistic rules of the game: If anyone says that Christ had two
natures but denies by this that Christ was one, anathema sit. |
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