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Antinomy
(Greek: anti, against; nomos, law)
A term made familiar by the
heresy of
Antinomianism preached by Johannes Agricola as a deduction of Luther's
teaching on justification by faith alone. If good works, argued Agricola, do
not help to salvation so evil ones do not hinder it and therefore justified
Christians are not bound to observe the law. The deduction is logical, but
Luther repudiated it and preached earnestly against it. Though often acted
upon by some extremists in Germany and England, it was never favored by any
Protestant sect.
New Catholic Dictionary
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