antinomianism

Meaning

Noun

• The belief or teaching that because only the spiritual "law of faith" (Romans 3:27) is essential for salvation, obedience to any practical or moral law has no role to play, even as a guide to conduct or as a test of the genuineness of faith.
• Opposition to the Torah.

Origin

• From antinomian + -ism, coined by Martin Luther, notably used in his Against the Antinomians (1539).