# material heresy

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. An opinion that is objectively contradictory to the teachings of the Church, and as such heretical, but which is uttered by a person without the subjective knowledge of it being so.

## Etymology
Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin haeresis māteriālis.

## Source
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