Sentences with phrase «as heretical»

Because of the peculiar customs of the Jahriyah sect, which are judged to be superstitious, they are regarded as heretical by the other Muslims.

The first line says it all: «Most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by some of the most important councils of the early church.»

«Paranoid ideologues have burned books and records throughout human history to try to squelch dissenting visions that they view as heretical, and to anyone who worships the great God Economy monotheistically, environmental science is heresy.»

A new survey reports that «most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by... the councils of the early church.»

But his solutions for shrinking the U.S. trade deficit with China, namely labeling China a currency manipulator and placing tariffs on Chinese goods, are not as heretical as you might think.

While at the Basel Institute for Immunology in Switzerland, he published a theory — first seen as heretical, then brilliant — that immune cells reshuffle their DNA to create millions of different antibodies from a small number of genes.

The other most widely spread movement branded by the Catholic Church as heretical was that of the Waldenses — also known as the Poor Men of Lyons and as the Poor in Spirit.

Theological and regional opposition to the emperor weakened the Empire and made it less able to withstand the attacks of Muslims, especially as heretical Christians were likely to be treated more leniently by Muslim than by Byzantine rulers.

In these records it is definitely stated that the smaller «foreign» religions, Zoroastrianism and Christianity were regarded as heretical forms of Buddhism, and were included within the scope of the edicts.

The Lutheran World Federation (1977) and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (1982) have denounced as heretical South Africa's apartheid system.

That is, to condemn others as heretical, without justifiable reproof.

This doctrine is based on a distinction which the scholastic philosophers drew between the «substance» of essence of a thing and its accident's, its material form and qualities which were not found in the bible; therefore he challenged them and it was at this period that the authorities began their serious attempts to suppress his teaching as heretical.

Ahmadiyvah — branch of the Qadiani sect founded at Qadian (now in India) by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (died 1326; A.D. 1908); the Ahmadis look upon their founder as a renovator of Islam while the rest of the Qadianis accept him as a prophet after Muhammad; the general Muslim community does not recognize the distinction and regards both groups as heretical.

Attempts to make the nominally Christian peoples of Western Europe fully to conform to the standards of their faith were not confined to monastic movements and to groups which the Catholic Church branded as heretical.

By declaring and conducting jihad on their own, al - Qaeda, IS, Boko Haram, and other such groups act as heretical usurpers.

It's entirely possible that the only «true» Church throughout history was wiped out as heretical long ago, or that none of the thousands of varieties of Christianity have met with Jesus» approval, or would have, at least.

The best part of Bad Religion appears at the end, where Ross Douthat identifies problematic modern Christianities that, by conventional standards, stand as heretical alternatives to the gospel message of sacrifice, charity, asceticism, and worship of the transcendent.

Islam: To reject the Islam as a heretical doctrine, it is not necessary to read the Koran, because it is publically known that the Islam rejects the Trinity and the devine sonship of Jesus Christ.

I was pleased to see the great Oriental Churches mentioned and that the Coptic and Armenian Apostolic Churches, once regarded as heretical because of their Monophysite character, are now seen as expressing the same Faith with different terminology (p98).

Consequently, «we (the document's signatories) denounce all forms of right - wing Christianity as heretical.»

It's interesting to note that, when Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod and thus took the superst.ition out of people's houses being struck, the various churches were quick to denounce his science as heretical.

Also in fact, the Puritans and many other Christian sects refused to celebrate Christmas as a heretical holiday.

Some have written off the entire worldwide Anglican Communion as heretical.

As such, Christians today would do well to recover the doctrinal precision of the early church before judging any belief as heretical.

It was rejected as heretical by many individuals and groups within the early Christian movement.

Men made the decision to declare the stories that were not selected as heretical, destroying many potentially important writings and invoking brutal Roman suppresion of any who did not fall into line (see the story of Arius as one example), all in the name of creating a single unified version of the story of Jesus that may or may not have been true.

I know there are many Christians who will discount everything I have said and done as heretical and completely unscriptural.

The key is that there IS such a thing as heretical teaching, and it should be avoided.

Would Zhang imbue the proceedings with the understated intensity of his feminist fables Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern (both of which were, for a time, banned as heretical in his native China)?

Having built up the use of the Dark Dimension's powers as heretical, Clea's inclusion might afford Derrickson the opportunity to present the imposing dimension as not actually purely evil, but rather a powerful place bent to the whims of its dark ruler.

Finally we get to what I've been thinking of as my heretical idea.

It's about as heretical as changing the recipe for Coke.

I argue that sorcery was treated primarily as a heretical or political crime in early and early medieval China, before politically motivated sorcery crimes were distinguished from non-politically motivated ones.

And yet his faithful translations of drawing into painting could be seen as heretical to both camps.

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.

These too sought to conform fully to the standards set by the New Testament but, unlike monasticism, were denounced as heretical by the Catholic Church.

For centuries, however, the two sides condemned each other as heretical.

But the Catholic church, which accepted the geocentric theory, rejected Galileo's views as heretical and forced him to recant.

How is it that groups so widely condemned as heretical by Islamic authorities receive so much tacit support from the mainstream Muslim world?

The latter part of the fourteenth and the fifteenth century witnessed two movements which were closely related, which sought to bring the Church to a closer approximation to the New Testament, but which were branded by the Catholic Church as heretical.

Yet Nestorianism was never able to overcome the initial prejudice against Christianity, and the fact that it was regarded as heretical by the majority of the Roman Empire cut it off from the fellowship of the strongest of the churches.

While you find my church a problem and I yours as a heretical sect, it was good to see you grow to some extent.

More likely Connie, they'll just get mad and dismiss it as heretical, the rantings of bitter people, etc..