Antinomy
Antinomy
(Greek: anti, against; nomos, law)
A term made familiar by the heresy of Antinomianism preached by Johannes Agricola as a deduction of Luther’s teaching on justification by faith alone. If good works, argued Agricola, do not help to salvation so evil ones do not hinder it and therefore justified Christians are not bound to observe the law. The deduction is logical, but Luther repudiated it and preached earnestly against it. Though often acted upon by some extremists in Germany and England , it was never favored by any Protestant sect.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Antinomy
(Ger. Antinomie) The mutual contradiction of two principles or inferences resting on premises of equal validity. Kant shows, in the Antinomies of pure Reason, that contradictory conclusions about the cosmos can be established with equal credit; from this he concluded that the Idea of the world, like other transcendent ideas of metaphysics, is a purely speculative, indeterminate notion. (See Kantianism.) — O.F.K.