maculism
English
Etymology
From maculate + -ism, or a back-formation from immaculism.
Noun
maculism (uncountable)
- (Christianity) Rejection of belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
- Antonym: immaculism
- 2016, Trent Pomplun, “Baroque Catholic Theologies of Christ and Mary”, in Ulrich Lehner et al., editors, The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600–1800, →ISBN, page 115:
- As maculism ceased to be a viable option in Catholic theology, however, theologians who argued that Mary had some debt to Adam, proximate or remote, often adhered to some form of mitigated Thomism or mitigated Scotism […] .
Related terms
- maculist