Legalism (disambiguation)
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Legalism has several meanings.
- Legalism in philosophy refers to either a school within Western jurisprudence or alternatively to one of the four chief philosophic schools during the Warring States Period of Chinese history.
- Legalism in Christian theology is a pejorative term referring either to the imposition of excessive religious rules of behavior (also known as letterism) or to a system of meriting salvation through doing good works, something the Apostle Paul denied was possible (Ephesians 2:8-9).
