Sentences with phrase «anathemas against»

Yet the Apostle Paul, though reasoning calmly with the philosophers at Athens and with the ruling authorities on trial, issued thundering anathemas against the false teachers who came to the Galatian church as spokesmen for Christian orthodoxy.

The Definitio Fidei of the Sixth Ecumenical Council begins with the word hepomene: «Following the five holy and Ecumenical synods...»; and ends, as Chalcedon had done, with an anathema against innovators.

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That's anathema to many entrepreneurs, such as Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, who has mounted a very public campaign against overturning Net neutrality.

«Just as these misguided arbiters of the mainstream view an adult entertainment star as an anathema to the political process,» she said, when she eventually decided against a bid, «so too do they view the dishwasher, the cashier or the bus driver.»

That kind of perspective, though certainly many of us know and love people who hold it, is anathema to our liberal religious heritage, and stands against our commitment to reason, freedom and tolerance.

To say that humanity is good is anathema to the biblical witness, and to go against what God has revealed.

Bryan himself was a champion of the common man, and had actually supported two of the ACLU's earlier campaigns against threats to individual liberty» superpatriotism during World War I and cutthroat capitalism afterward» but the Scopes Trial and the subsequent treatment of it made him anathema to most of the liberal bien pensant left.

His appointment, however temporary, at Chelsea was always mindless to a degree, not on the grounds of competence but because he was known to be an anathema to the Chelsea fans after those torrid challenges against Liverpool when he managed them.

I asked him, If you will not draw lines against an organization such as REBNY, whose position is anathema to that of the Progressive Caucus, then what does it mean for there to be a Progressive Caucus?

She reminded the electorates that electoral violence was an anathema to peaceful co-existence, and that it militates against the consolidation of democracy as well as retards development and progress of the state.