Heresiology

As Häresiologie the doctrine is referred to by the heresy in theology or religious studies. In the Häresiologie describes a church, which they defined as heresy and how they detect heresy. A Häresiologie always represents the subjective point of view of a particular church

The history of Häresiologie describes how the churches have defined at different times heresy. This usually goes hand in hand with a description of the orthodoxy as opposed to heresy, so that the history of Häresiologie is closely related to the history of dogma.

Häresiologie must be distinguished from heresiography an essay that describes heresies. However, many Häresiographien contain heresiological motives.