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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinomianism
... or lawlessness (in the Greek Bible: ἀνομία,[1] which is "unlawful"), in theology, is the idea that members of a particular religious group are under no obligation to obey the laws of ethics or morality as presented by religious authorities.[2] Antinomianism is the polar opposite of legalism, the notion that obedience to a code of religious law is necessary for salvation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinomianism#Charges_against_Quakers
Quakers were charged with antinomianism due to their rejection of a graduate clergy and a clerical administrative structure, as well as their privileging of the Spirit (as revealed by the Inner Light of God within each person) over the Scriptures. They also rejected civil legal authorities and their laws (such as the paying of tithes to the State church and the swearing of oaths) when they were seen as inconsistent with the promptings of the Inner Light of God. See also Christian anarchism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinomianism#Antinomianism_in_Buddhism
Among Buddhists there are three main types of antinomians: naturalist/spontaneous antinomians, ritualist/philosophical antinomians, and empirical antinomians.[citation needed] There may also be those who subscribe to all or some combination of these three basic types.
The naturalist antinomians believe that enlightened beings may spontaneously break dhamma codes of conduct while living out their natural state of enlightenened mind.[citation needed] One counter view is that an enlightened mind responds to circumstances pased on Buddhist morality rather than the legalism of the codes for monks and is not therefore a "spontaneous break" of any kind. There are many tales of mad saints in the crazy wisdom school tradition of Buddhism who perform acts which may appear to be bizarre and immoral to unenlightened persons.[citation needed] [25]
Ritualist antinomians, such as some Tantric Buddhists, may break dhamma codes of conduct in specific religious rituals designed to teach non-duality or some other philosophical concept. They may for example have sex during a religious rite or perform some other ritual inversion of a rule, while such acts would be unacceptable to them outside the ritual context.
Empirical antinomians, such as followers of the Great Western Vehicle.[citation needed][26], may break or disregard traditional dhamma rules which they believe are unconducive to the individual's contemplative life. They view dhamma codes as arising in a specific historical-cultural context and as such they may not always in every case be supportive of Buddhist training. It is up to the individual, and the community, to test and verify which dhamma rules promote and which hinder enlightenment. An empirical antinomian Buddhist monk may for example determine that eating after noon (which is forbidden) is actually conducive to their personal meditative practice rather than hindering. One may be an omni-antinomian as well, believing in all three types of antinomianism. Or one may be a naturalist-empirical, or a ritualist-empirical, or a naturalist-ritualist antinomian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinomianism#Antinomianism_in_Islam
- See also: Naskh (tafsir)
In Islam, the law—which applies not only to religion, but also to areas such as politics, banking, and sexuality—is called sharīʿah (شريعة), and it is traditionally organized around four primary sources:
- the Qurʾān, which is Islam's central religious text;
- the sunnah, which refers to actions practised during the time of the prophet Muḥammad, and is often thought to include the ḥadīth, or recorded words and deeds of Muḥammad;
- ijmāʿ, which is the consensus of the ʿulamāʾ, or class of Islamic scholars, on points of practice;
- qiyās, which—in Sunnī Islam—is a kind of analogical reasoning conducted by the ʿulamāʾ upon specific laws that have arisen through appeal to the first three sources; in Shīʿah Islam, ʿaql ("reason") is used in place of qiyās
Actions, behaviors, or beliefs that are considered to violate any or all of these four sources—primarily in matters of religion—can be termed "antinomian". Depending on the action, behavior, or belief in question, a number of different terms can be used to convey the sense of "antinomian": shirk ("association of another being with God"); bidʿah ("innovation"); kufr ("disbelief"); ḥarām ("forbidden"); etc.
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