Sentences with phrase «great heresy»

To avoid this great heresy obviously requires a tribunal to confine itself, when considering the fairness of the dismissal under s 98 (4) of the Employment Rights Act 1996, to focus entirely upon the three fundamental issues of:

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that it is the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of conviction: as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith.

Ironically, if one commits the greatest heresy of all time, nobody will even raise an eyebrow, point a finger, or call you to account.

Nobody has ever been fired from their job, burned at the stake, or excommunicated from church for believing the greatest heresy ever.

United Methodist historian Franklin H. Littell reminds us that the great heresies of the early church came from the churches that were the most established, most complacent and most static, not from the church's growing edges where believers were busy evangelizing, organizing and building new disciple communities.

This, in fact, is not Christian orthodoxy at all, but rather Gnosticism, one of the great heresies.

Like all great heresies it has it's own internal logic and rejects ethics in favor of revealed dogma.

No doubt one of his greatest heresies is to ascribe anti-rationalist views to orthodox rationalists.4 Whitehead's own thinking seems to move inexorably toward the conclusion that only good myths can engender good understandings.5 The gist of his conclusion, that mythopoesis underpins natural philosophy, does not require a renunciation of logic, mathematics, and science.

Not exact matches

In the Dark Ages, when Christianity was forbidding scientific inquiry as «heresy», Muslim scholars were amongst the most enlightened in the world, giving great contributions to science, art, trade... It's true that the more extreme facets of it today are mis - guided, but so are the most extreme facets of Christianity (just look, again, at history for that one... Inquisition, anyone?)

Ronald Reagan's great biographer Steven F. Hayward courts charges of heresy by arguing that the Reagan Revolution was in some measure a failure, that its strategy of reining in the welfare state by «starving the beast» of revenues simply made it easier for us to enjoy the benefits....

It's still called heresy, even in this great age of elightment.

John Stott said that the greatest evangelical heresy of the 20th century was ignoring social justice.

Karol Wojtyla started out as a great Pope before Josef Ratzinger was appointed as Chief of the Inquisition and made the Pope see Heresy in every piece of dissent.

The great tragedy — can I call it heresy?

She has a great ear for anecdotes, and her field reports of Christians persecuted for ideological heresy entertain as much as they alarm.

Which lead to the Roman heresy of concluding since grace abounds where sin abounds, grace must permit and even encourage sin and its expression so that grace can have greater expression.

They looked around them and saw their tiny movement opposed by the greatest empire the world had known, opposed by local political and religious leaders, and riven by internal schism and heresy.

Fosdick was brother to the great liberal preacher Harry Emerson, a zealous foe of «fundamentalism» who had survived a Presbyterian heresy trial.

Islam, like all other great religions, has a theology of its own which aims at the establishment of its fundamental articles of faith and the refutation of heresy and innovation.

But the pope was being just as pastoral as prefect of the CDF when he said «no» to some new heresy, and so was his great predecessor as pope when heconfronted the godlessness of the communist world and of the capitalist West.

The vocation of St. John as the apostle of the Divinity of Christ's one person has fed and powered the true development of the doctrine of the Church at all times, not least in the first centuries in which the true doctrine of both the divinity and the humanity are hammered out in great Councils, and the concepts are refined in the fires of contrary heresy against either the full Divinity or the full Humanity of Christ.

His great disciple, St Teresa of Avila, was also suspected of the alumbrado heresy and her autobiography was impounded until four years after her death.

I was heartened to read James Tolhurst's article on «The Nature of Heresy» (July 2009) and only wished he had expounded further at length and also got right back to first principles quoting St. Augustine of Hippo and the great St. Paul that the inimical core of all heresy is: «worshipping the creature rather than the Creator.&Heresy» (July 2009) and only wished he had expounded further at length and also got right back to first principles quoting St. Augustine of Hippo and the great St. Paul that the inimical core of all heresy is: «worshipping the creature rather than the Creator.&heresy is: «worshipping the creature rather than the Creator.»

It helps massively the great current heresy, «When I understand it, I will believe it»; «Credo ut intelligam» back to front.

The failure to grasp reality is greatest amongst the theists, greatest yet amongst those who think that their doctrines are the absolute divine truth and all else heresy.

But... extirpate these heresies, proceeding against them with order and system,... using, you your temporal arms and I the spiritual, and thus zealously punish them as is right... and show yourself the true and undoubted successor of Charlemagne amongst whose other greatest undertakings there still resounds the fame of the conquest he made of the Saxons...» Campeggio replied in this way before the Emperor at the session following that at which Melancthon's text had been read.

The provocative thesis will be deemed heresy by partisans of «the judicial usurpation of politics»,» who inevitably assume that the rights of minorities receive their greatest protection from the courts.

What Brox has to say is accurate and up - to - date, but because the book is arranged topically (church life and organization; conflicts, heresies, schisms; theological literature) the great story and the vigorous personalities that make up early Christian history remain on the periphery.

Reinhold Niebuhr, the great proponent of «Christian realism,» was right when he wrote, «It is a terrible heresy to suggest that, because the world is sinful, we have a right to construct a Machiavellian politics or a Darwinian sociology as normative for Christians.»

Reminds me of the great Cavatappi Heresy.

Only a few decades previously the famous preacher Savanorola, also a priest member of the Dominicans, had been burnt for heresy in the great piazza at Florence.

It would be a great shame to me and to you, the noble and renowned German nation... if heresy or decrease of the Christian religion should through our negligence dwell after us in the hearts of men... I regret having delayed so long to proceed against this Luther and his false doctrine... he is to be taken back, keeping the tenor of his safe - conduct... I am determined to proceed against him as a notorious heretic, requesting of you that you conduct yourselves in this matter as good Christians as you have promised it to me, and are held to do it.

It was increasingly a shock to Luther to realise that he was sure Jan Huss was a great and important theologian, and that this «heretic» had been burnt for his «heresy».

Money was not involved but the promise of restoring moral virtue to America is too great a hope to let a little heresy stand in the way.

There is probably no greater scientific heresy today than questioning the warming role of CO2, especially in the wake of the report issued by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

And here's an even greater shocker (from the Beeb, anyway)... they've actually reported on China's climatic heresy:

Great, heresy is such an interesting topic and you are possibly one of the grandest heretics I have had the pleasure reading for some time.

We have seen the Court of Appeal's rejection of the appeal in the case of British Airways and the employee wanting to wear a cross necklace in defiance of the company's dress code (Eweida v BA plc [2010] EWCA Civ 80, [2010] All ER (D) 144 (Feb)-RRB- and also that court's decision in the Buckland case which was widely reported in the press in terms of «Professor wins case about dumbing down university degrees» but which was of much greater legal significance for ridding the law on constructive dismissal of the heresy that the range of reasonable responses test applies to such dismissals, under which the ex-employee could only succeed in showing constructive dismissal if he could prove that the employer's behaviour was so bad that no reasonable employer could possibly have behaved in that way, ie that the employer had not just behaved as too much of an Alan (B'Stard) but as a grade one Olympic standard Alan (Buckland v Bournemouth University [2010] EWCA Civ 121, [2010] All ER (D) 299 (Feb)-RRB-.