Sentences with phrase «held as heretics»

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For purposes of classification, therefore, it would perhaps be most accurate to think of Davies as a writer of Christian apocrypha: a novelist who finds himself uncomfortably restrained by the canon of Christian thought, but who is not, on the other hand, a heretic; a self - proclaimed moralist who holds that while we reap what we sow, it is often difficult to know the nature of the seed or the outcome of the harvest.

At a time when Christians were condemning, expelling, and killing one another over doctrinal differences, a guy named Georg Calixtus had the crazy idea that perhaps one could hold to one's convictions (his were Lutheran) without condemning as heretics those with whom one disagrees.

Holding to a heresy makes one a heretic and in claiming therefore that all Calvinists are heretics you pretty much do the same thing as MacArthur on a much smaller platform.

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.

The recent, though scantily reported, rise within Jewry of a «Messianic» movement which, while affirming the continued theological validity of the Jewish people, also accepts Jesus as Israel's Messiah, could not have occurred in past centuries when the traditional churches held sway and routinely burned premillenial types at the stake as heretics.

However, in today's blogspace on climate we have scientists acting as if they are religious leaders who hold anyone who expresses doubt as a heretic and someone who is to be despised.