Nonconformity

Nonconformity gathers the scriptural strands that bear on refusing to bend religious practice to imposed civil or ceremonial pattern, whether that pattern comes from the state, from formal religious observance emptied of substance, or from outward shape mistaken for inward life. The topic is treated across the related entries on church and state, form, and formalism.

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