1. (n.) One who believes some doctrine contrary to the established standards\ or prevailing religion.

2. (n.) One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith determined by the authority of the universal church.

Albigensian Arian Bohemian Cathar Donatist Ebionite Erastian Gnostic Jansenist Lollard Manichaean Monophysite Montanist Pelagian Sabellian Waldensian Wyclifite antinomian apostate beatnik defector deviant deviationist dissenter dissident dropout emanationist flower child freak hippie hylotheist iconoclast infidel maverick misbeliever misfit nonconformist nonjuror original pantheist recreant recusant renegade revisionist schismatic sectarian sectary separatist swinger ugly duckling unbeliever unconformist yippie