0 a person who holds or teaches such an opinion -- คนนอกศาสนา
Heretics used to be burnt at the stake.
The answer here is to admit that this alleged modalist is no heretic at all - at least, not on this count.
The due process of correction, whereby the corrector detects obstinate heretics, entails an aspect of inquisitorial deterrence.
Inquisitors may well have seen heretics as particularly prone to the sins of avarice and usury.
This sounds as a heretic combination of words to some social and cultural anthropologists.
Even in the period when cross-wearing became more difficult, the cross-wearing former heretic was already on the way to redemption.
But in general, even the devout overcame their reservations about corresponding with intellectually interesting heretics.
The penance as used by inquisitors was extended predominantly to followers of heretics (credentes) rather than heresiarchs themselves.
Such an arrangement, with its elements of exile and the uncertainty of contrition, was peculiarly appropriate for heretics.
