The terms are pretty much synonymous. They both refer to a religious deviate. Heresy was coined by the early Roman Catholic church to refer to those deviated from the Catholic Church. The term Apostasy is used by The Bible to denote one who strays from the pattern of truth found in the Bible. Often the term "apostasy" will refer to one who has declared a belief or affirmed an attachment to a set of beliefs, but later attempts to lead other adherents to stray from those beliefs; "heresy" is often used to refer to a similar situation led by a non-adherent.
unorthodox, apostasy, blasphemy, impiety, infidelity, nonconformism, nonconformity, schism, sectarianism
To deny an established Church teaching may easily be construed as heresy or apostasy.
A "heresy hunter" is someone who is looking for something wrong with someone/some group's doctrine, Biblically speaking, while apologetics is the study concerned with showing a reasonable defense of Christianity.
Christoph Ulrich Hahn has written: 'Geschichte der ketzer im mittelalter' -- subject- s -: Apostasy, Heresies and heretics, Heresy, Medieval Sects
Maronite Catholic is a rite of the Catholic Church, one of several; whereas Hillsong is just another protestant heresy.
It is not called defecting, it is called apostasy. To the best of my knowledge the only priest who left the faith at that time was Martin Luther, himself. No Cardinals, that I know of, went with him into heresy.
The Great Apostasy began in 1130.
The Apostasy was created on 2007-07-02.
Apostasy is the abandonment or renunciation of one's religious beliefs. A person deciding not to follow his or her religious beliefs is committing apostasy.
Apostasy is not ever knowing christ, spritualy dead. Never knowing god exist. Backsliding is running or falling away from a god you know exist or running from his calling. The first one is you BC the other is you AC falling from him back into the same place you where before meeting him
The Politics of Religious Apostasy was created in 1998.
The Politics of Religious Apostasy has 256 pages.