Sentences with phrase «declared heretical»

[2] Within Roman Catholicism, the Jansenist movement, which the Church then declared heretical, also maintained that original sin destroyed freedom of will.

There may have been earlier versions but they and anything disagreeing with the proto - orthodox «beliefs» was declared heretical and burned.

There is a limit to what we can do with ourselves on our own (Pelagius gave too much of the job to us and not enough to God, according to the fifth - century Council of Carthage that declared him heretical), but in general humans are called to actively participate in the mysterious enterprise of being changed by way of grace into Christlike beings.

ISIS effectively claimed that any Muslim outside ISIS was an infidel if not accepting al Bagdadhi as caliph, thereby «protecting» their supporters from other opinions by declaring them heretical.

Not exact matches

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

The ecumenical councils later achieved the only true form of Christian teaching only by declaring to be heretical all who failed to accept their definitions.

Of crucial importance to Galileo's later difficulties were the documents of 1616, when not only was Copernicanism declared to be «foolish and absurd in philosophy and formally heretical,» but Galileo himself was personally warned by Bellarmino not to «hold or defend» the theory.

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.

This was also the principle of the Brothers of Waldo (at Lyons) and of those heretical movements — Joachimites, Brothers of the Poor Life, etc. — which preached true evangelical communism, practiced absolute nonviolence, and declared that apocalyptic visions had revealed that the «poor and pure religious orders will bring in the mystical government of the world.»

Luther was the wild boar who was wrecking the vineyard of the Church and he was said to be guilty, along with accomplices, of all sorts of things which were declared to be heretical.

The text declared that it was heretical to point out that the three parts of the Sacrament of Penance, contrition, confession, and satisfaction are not to be found in the New Testament; it was heretical to say that the laity should communicate in both the consecrated bread and the consecrated wine; it was heretical to say that it was contrary to the will of the Spirit to burn heretics; and soon, along with the more technical doctrinal matters of Indulgences, good works, and free will.