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...in the piety of the will original: "voluntatis pietate." Arnold argued that true religion was found in the internal devotion of the heart/will rather than in intellectual adherence to specific church dogmas., but he writes that no heresy heresy: An opinion or doctrine at odds with established religious dogma. consists in the intellect. By this very fact, because of this fundamental error—or rather, this heresy of his own—for Arnold Gottfried Arnold (1666–1714) was a radical Pietist whose "Impartial History of the Church and Heretics" (1699) famously argued that the institutional church was often the true "heretic" while those it persecuted were the true Christians. there is no such thing as a heretic, no sectarian, no schismatic, nor any other mutilator of orthodoxy original: "orthodoxiæ laniator." Literally "one who tears apart or butchers" the correct teaching.. And this is that most wretched disposition original Greek: "ΔΙΑΘΕΣΙΣ" (diathesis). Here referring to a deep-seated mental state or a preconceived inclination that colors one's judgment. and an opinion corrupted by the passions, according to which he either fails to rebuke or even praises all prophetesses, all impious women, ventriloquists ventriloquists: From the Latin "engastrimythas," referring to those who speak from the belly. In a biblical and historical context, this term was used to describe sorceresses, mediums, or those thought to be possessed by spirits., and any heretical women you please, or [praises] their im-