Sentences with phrase «as a heretic in»

What is happening here, for the first time in two thousand years, for the first time since the apostle Paul pondered the continuing «mystery» of Living Judaism, for the first time since the Church condemned Marcion as a heretic in the second century, for the first time since so many things in our tortuously entangled relationship, is that believing Jews and Christians are encountering one another on a footing of civil equality in a shared exploration of the way through history of the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus.

Theodore was condemned as a heretic in the fifth Ecumenical Council of Constantinople in AD 553.)

I was condemned as a heretic in December 2001 by my Baptist Church here in WV.

The best pitchers on the defending World Series champions were widely viewed as heretics in the context of their time.

Not exact matches

In Altman's view, people who have criticized those ideas for businesses have cast the entrepreneurs behind them as «heretics,» like how the Catholic Church sentenced Galileo to house arrest for (correctly) saying the Earth revolves around the sun.

The older I get — and against the nerve of Strauss's dogma — I think more and more of Locke as a mixture of good and evil implicit in the idea of Christian heretic.

As do you I trust in Hashem that any act of these heretics, be they «Christian», «Muslim», «Mormon», etc. are null and void to begin with.

There are also essays on such diverse topics as princely martyrs in Kievan Russia, medieval heretics as Protestant martyrs, John Foxe and the politics of Marian persecution, and the veneration of the martyrs of Ikitsuki in the seventeenth century.

There were of course some who saved records, but for the most part Christianity tended to condemn anything not like them, blamed them as heretics and causes of plagues and poisoners of wells trying to wipe out any alternate religions that remained in Europe through much of the last two thousand years.

I myself, having been exposed to the ancient beliefs of Taino Native Americans and Far Easterners transplanted into Latin America as well as Christianity, have a more pragmatic, holistic outlook on divinity and religious teachings which I choose to defer expressing, lest I be branded here in the Christian South as a HERETIC.

These people would have thrown you in prison as a heretic for saying the Earth is not the center of the universe and yet people of faith worship these ideals.

Centuries past I could've had her burned as a witch or she could've turned me in as a heretic to be quartered by horses.

The libertine and ascetic Gnostics strike us as being incompatible heretics, however in the act of day - by - day living each may have slipped into the other's territory.

If they didn't try to stone you on the spot, you would at least be condemned as a heretic liberal who deserved to spend eternity in the deepest hell.

Many identified in this piece as Meliorist evangelicals are more easily and usefully defined, once their teachings are isolated and clarified, as garden - variety heretics.

It appears that if I am not a CHRISTIAN troll, I am to be condemned as a heretic / heathen while the apologist crowd, no matter how different their beliefs will band together in righteous indignation.

But we do not condemn the other person as a heretic, to burn forever in the lake of fire.

Mathison might say that by such a refusal, I am placing myself as an individual above and against the Holy Spirit - guided consensus of the rest of the church, which therefore places me in the category of «heretic.»

In 1569 in Holland, a Mennonite named Dirk Willems, under capital sentence as a heretic, was fleeing from arrest, pursued by a «thief - catcher.&raquIn 1569 in Holland, a Mennonite named Dirk Willems, under capital sentence as a heretic, was fleeing from arrest, pursued by a «thief - catcher.&raquin Holland, a Mennonite named Dirk Willems, under capital sentence as a heretic, was fleeing from arrest, pursued by a «thief - catcher.»

We were viewed as heretics when we tried to tell others in our ministry about it.

In fact, he was condemned as a heretic by the Catholic church.

A trial ensued, in which Servetus was once again condemned as a heretic, and on October 27, 1553, was burned at the stake on top of a pile of his own books.

For Lent this year, I'm reading a heretic, as David Mills suggests (his title is provocative, but his point is about building compassion among brothers and sisters in Christ across the Reformational line).

«Until we know the power of divine grace, we read in the Bible concerning eternal punishment, and we think it is too heavy and too hard, and we are apt to kick against it, and find out some heretic or other who teaches us another doctrine; but when the soul is really quickened by divine grace, and made to feel the weight of sin, it thinks the bottomless pit none too deep, and the punishment of hell none too severe for sin such as it has committed.

For Douthat, however, our present identity as a «nation of heretics» marks a departure from earlier periods, in particular the post «World War II era of America's Greatest Generation, when Roman Catholic orthodoxy and the mainline Protestant denominations ruled the culture in ways that were truly Christian and faithful.

But if we condemn those who disagree with us as «heretics,» or if we smugly think that their disagreement with us is «persecution for our faith» which therefore proves our view is correct, we will never grow in unity with one another, and we will never learn to see our own doctrinal and theological missteps.

Because of the radical views of Tatian, the church Fathers in the west portrayed him as the epitome of heretics.

Paul's point in putting it this way is not to give us a book of theological trump cards by which we can denounce as heretics all who disagree with us.

As a consequence he was accused of being a heretic in the Presbyterian Church and charges were pressed against him.

He said that such men treat the Bible «as if it were a baby, to be wrapped in swaddling clothes, nursed, and carefully guarded, lest it should be injured by heretics and skeptics.»

Christians in the past have spoken of Muhammad as a heretic, with a false or inadequate understanding of God.

Often these definitions were fashioned in the shops of the heretics themselves — weapons sometimes as dangerous to those who fashioned or wielded them as they were to their opponents!

It is important to point out that the belief was used in the early church as a way of affirming Jesus» full humanity; «born of a virgin» in the Apostles» Creed has the force of «really born of a woman,» in opposition to heretics who denied that Jesus was truly human.

Plus, as I've already mentioned, a monk named Calcidius espoused this view in the 5th century and was not branded a heretic for doing so.

But depending on who you ask, how the Church has dealt with «heretics» in its midst can sometimes be seen as anything but sympathetic.

At least half of his life after his conversion in 193 was spent as a member of the Montanists — to the point of founding his own North African version, one destined to last to the time of St Augustine — and the Montanists, we must remember, were not simply separated from communion with the Catholic Church: they were indeed, as St Thomas Aquinas says of Tertullian himself, actual heretics.

Christianities developed historically ONLY in communities, or people like Smith were declared a «heretic», as they cooked up nonsense.

Also, if you believe in the Bible, then you should know that false condemnation and the spreading of false prophecies (attributing storms and natural phenomenon to God's «wrath») puts you in the same line of sinners as heretics, murders, thieves and rapists.

Ironically, many in Free Grace circles condemn Brian McLaren, Tony Campolo, and others in their camp as heretics.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

God appears to me in another form besides that of love; in the form of omnipotence, of a severe power not bound by love... So long as love is not exalted into... an essence, so long there lurks in the background of love a subject who even without love is something by himself, an unloving monster, a diabolical being, whose personality, separable and actually separated from love, delights in the blood of heretics and unbelievers, — the phantom of religious fanaticism.»

While there is no such things as a «heretic» in the traditional sense, there are «false teachers.»

Is the persecutions of heretics justifiable as many Christians authorities have claimed in the past?

In reply, Jesus told the familiar parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30 - 37), where the neighbor who must be loved is clearly one whom strict Jews would regard as a half - breed and a heretic.

Yes women who have the gift of Teaching via God the Holy Spirit can teach but they can not take on the clearly defined «Office» Position of Pastor as defined in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1:6, The Scripture is the first and final authority on what God has spoken, not the rhetorical babble of heretics who don't follow the word of God.

As G. K. Chesterton said in the last chapter of his early book Heretics, «If there be such a thing as mental growth, it must mean the growth into more and more definite convictions, into more and more dogmaAs G. K. Chesterton said in the last chapter of his early book Heretics, «If there be such a thing as mental growth, it must mean the growth into more and more definite convictions, into more and more dogmaas mental growth, it must mean the growth into more and more definite convictions, into more and more dogmas.

Jews in Jesus» day thought of the Samaritans as the violent heretics, much the same way that Christians think of Muslims today.

Those who treat the wrath of God as taboo, whether in sermons or hymns, stand in a long lineage too, one that includes Albrecht Ritschl, Faustus Socinus, and the unnamed revisionists in the second century who followed the heretic Marcion.

He is pictured as himself a story - teller in whose stories there is equally vivid harmonizing of contrasts: a father embracing a prodigal son, a tax collector praying for forgiveness; a heretic showing a compassion far surpassing that of the orthodox, an employer rewarding laggards with the same wages as those who have worked a full day.

But he does argue for toleration for Jews and Muslims in an emphatic way, as he does not for heretics.