Sentences with phrase «against heretical»

While the IPCC proponents loudly cry out against the heretical skeptical scientists and the dark influences of big oil and right wing ideology that are anti-science, we all join in bemoaning these dark forces that are fighting a war against science, and support the IPCC against its critics.

Moreover, Jefferson came to agree with Madison's argument that «the most effectual safeguard against heretical intrusions into the School of politics, will be an able & orthodox Professor.»

First, Hobgood - Oster passes on the allegation, popular these days on countless websites, that Pope Gregory IX's bull against a heretical sect «began a series of mass slaughters of cats throughout Europe.»

Demarest explains, «The early church defended itself against heretical teaching by appealing to «the rule of faith» or «the rule of truth», which were brief summaries of essential Christian truths... The fluid «rule of faith» gave way to more precise instruments for refuting heresies and defining faith, namely, creedal formulations such as the Apostles» Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Definition of Chalcedon and the Athanasian Creed.»

Such a history does not only exist because a very great deal of time and theological development and clarification was needed in some cases before the Church's awareness of its belief had finally fought its way to a clear realization that such and such a definite doctrine of the Church is really contained in divine revelation, is a genuine expression of what has always been globally believed or an obligatory defence against heretical misinterpretation of what has been handed down.

Not exact matches

Against all this, Milbank retrieves from Augustine's City of God the priority of peace and harmony, with the church embodying a social theory allied to a trinitarian theology that is the true alternative to the heretical and disastrously nihilistic theologies that have dominated the postmedieval Western world.

Indeed, the formal Catholic procedures for beatifying and canonizing saints are intended, inter alia, to guard against superstition, miracle «mongering, and popular enthusiasms of a possibly heretical nature.

Thus my heretical tendency: I'm increasingly against human rights.

Secondly, and most importantly, the doctrine is always mentioned in the context of a church leader trying to defend the church against a teaching which they considered heretical.

But Christianity and Zoroastrianism were also persecuted and their monasteries suppressed because they were regarded as heretical forms of Buddhism and therefore came under the edict of the emperor against foreign religions.

those blinkered fans who believe that winning stuff is the right approach need to be banished to far of lands as they are really just heretical supporters of the unholy spuds and the idolatrous Maureen who The Lord is now casting aside for his blaspheming against the prophet.....

With just one exception, Pryce sided with the new Democratic majority on every major bill and rule change that came to a vote in the past two weeks, even voting against her party on a procedural vote, a move considered heretical in the years of GOP control.

Although Barna's idea of diverse ribosomes goes against the classical textbook view, «the concept is not heretical at all,» says Vassie Ware, a molecular cell biologist at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., not involved in the work.