Apostasy
The apostasy (of the old Greek grc texte= [[wikt: ἀπόστασις ἀπόστασις]] trans=apostasis, to be held far from ) is the attitude of a person, called a apostate , which gives up publicly a Doctrine or a Religion.
In Greek, this name (apostasia) drift of the verb aphistêmi, which literally means “to move away from”; it has the direction of “desertion, abandonment”. (Ac 21:21) In traditional Greek, one employed it to speak about the political defections, and it is probably in this direction that the verb is employed in Acts 5:37 in connection with Judas Galiléen which “involved” (apéstêsé, a form of aphistêmi) of the partisans to his continuation. In the Seventy, this word is found in Genèse 14:4 about an other case of rebellion. However, in the Christian Greek Writings, it is used primarily in connection with religious defections, to speak somebody who gives up the true cause, which ceases adoring and serving God, and which, consequently, disavows what it professed before and completely gives up his principles or its faith. The religious leaders of Jerusalem showed Paul of such an apostasy towards the Loi of Brace.
The apostasy can also mean the renunciation to be subjected to the authority representing the aforementioned doctrines (like the religious authority, or that of a Political party). In the religious context (more running), the apostasy means the renouncement freely authorized and reflected by an adult individual and intellectually person in charge, to belong to a religious organization. Indeed, renouncement under the constraint (political, parental…) is not regarded as apostasy, it goes from there in the same way for an individual who loses his cognitive faculties.
This phenomenon is in full expansion in Europe. Being based on the laws resulting from the European directives, an increasingly significant number people having been baptized children, therefore without assent, are made stripe registers of the “churches” not to be counted like believers more, or quite simply because they do not want to guarantee any more the remarks of the leaders of these religious movements. The Catholic church is in particular concerned. This procedure is commonly called Débaptisation.
The expression is also used by certain sociologists since the years 1990 to indicate “outgoing sects”. A debate then opened on the question of knowing if the apostate were a valid source of information on the group which it left or if it is not inclined to grow bigger or create of all parts of the events in order to justify his departure.
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