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To: bdeaner

When do you think this use first occurred?


1,496 posted on 07/02/2009 7:50:45 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky
According to this Online Etymology Dictionary, the word heresy was first used pejoratively around 1330.

This is perhaps not surprising since this was the time of great turmoil and confusion in the Church. This was during the time of the Avignon Papacy.
1,501 posted on 07/02/2009 8:34:39 AM PDT by bdeaner (The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? (1 Cor. 10:16))
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