The word
"heretical" refers to going against accepted beliefs or teachings, especially in a religious context. It means expressing ideas or beliefs that are in disagreement with the established doctrines or beliefs of a particular group or organization.
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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.
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)?
As Joe will note in his article, I'm an advocate of much more caution about stock investing than seems to prevail today (thanks, in my opinion, to Wall Street marketing), and I hold what many would
consider heretical views on equity investing.
Many evangelicals have accused Jakes of
heretical views of the Trinity and of preaching a prosperity gospel theology.
The first is what I have called the «
heretical imperative,» to wit: the pluralistic situation forces us to choose, and every religious affirmation we then make is the result of choice, even if we choose this or that orthodoxy.
Because of the peculiar customs of the Jahriyah sect, which are judged to be superstitious, they are regarded as
heretical by the other Muslims.
Demarest explains, «The early church defended itself against
heretical teaching by appealing to «the rule of faith» or «the rule of truth», which were brief summaries of essential Christian truths... The fluid «rule of faith» gave way to more precise instruments for refuting heresies and defining faith, namely, creedal formulations such as the Apostles» Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Definition of Chalcedon and the Athanasian Creed.»
But I do know it won't happen by even more furious denunciations of others, by focusing on politics rather than prayer, by concerning ourselves with the sex lives and
heretical thoughts of others rather than with the constant struggle to liberate ourselves from what keeps us from God.
He tells the / r / btc AMA participants to «liberate themselves from just proceeding along the path Satoshi imagined and be willing to think radical,
even heretical thoughts.»
And to be honest, and I know this is going to
sound heretical considering my background [on games such as Halo], but speaking solely for myself here, I'm not as big a fan of modifying the game rules.
Epiphanius of Salamis attested the existence of
such heretical groups, one of which he located in Palestine: a community of women who made circular cakes and offered them to the Virgin Mary, whom they had come to look upon as a deity.
It wasn't until the sixth century that UR was thrown out and considered
heretical doctrine by the emperor Jerome, after guys like St. Augustine — one of the first champions of eternal punishment — started challenging the notion, largely because he (and others) believed that the unjust needed to be punished.
Although Barna's idea of diverse ribosomes goes against the classical textbook view, «the concept is
not heretical at all,» says Vassie Ware, a molecular cell biologist at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., not involved in the work.
They did this, Ehrman claims, to bolster their case for orthodoxy in the face of challenges
from heretical groups such as the Adoptionists, the Separationists and the Docetics.
What I wrote below, in 1997, was almost
heretical at the time.
And Newton's secret fascination with alchemy, for example, made it easier for him to entertain the apparently
heretical notion of gravity.
Earlier, nothing was known about it except the fact that it was used by several
heretical groups such as the Naassenes; some church writers denounced it but did not describe it.
It will be necessary, however, to go back to the beginnings of the new
heretical movement in Hinduism and see how it arose and what therefore these new scriptures have to say on the great central themes of Hindu scripture.
It
seems heretical even to suggest it, but it may be time to return to the earlier, essentially free - market model of mission support — encouraging individuals and churches to support the specific mission efforts they choose.
But both Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler and George W. Truett Theological Seminary professor Roger Olson, in separate blog posts, said that parts of the document sound like semi-Pelagianism, a traditionally
heretical understanding of Christian salvation.
Moreover, Jefferson came to agree with Madison's argument that «the most effectual safeguard
against heretical intrusions into the School of politics, will be an able & orthodox Professor.»
Though raised in the Jewish faith and receiving a rabbinical education, Spinoza was expelled from the synagogue at Amsterdam for defending
heretical opinions in 1656.
Though Lactantius had himself been
declared heretical more than a thousand years earlier, historical ignorance made it but a short step to the kind of truth v. orthodoxy morality play that bas persisted even as late as this exchange in Joseph Chiari's Christopher Columbus (1919):
The once - stellar giants of theology in the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant «mainstream» have faded from the scene, only to be replaced by a new array of religious inventions bent on undermining the faith of the fathers in ever
more heretical ways.
Stella's later work,
deemed heretical by critics, might just be minimalism's Id.
Speaking generally, it is quite correct to seek the boundaries of faith, especially when confronted with a truly
heretical claim.
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.
When I confront
heretical teachers who advance their novelties in the name of some lost - sight - of exegetical insight (and which of them does not?)
He later reiterated his support with an op - ed in The Washington Post in which he wrote, «Trump's
heretical denial of Republican dogma about government incapacity is exactly what we need to move the party — and the country — in a new direction.»
As a millennial Christian living in the United States, it seems
almost heretical not to embrace the call to change the world.
«These are the aliran sesat, beliefs that are held to be deviant and
heretical versions of legally recognized religions.»
These three elements - a ship found sailing without a crew, a famous writer on the verge of enormous success, and the rise of an unorthodox and
heretical religious fervor - converge in unexpected ways, in diaries, in letters, in safe harbors and rough seas.
The polytheist is an ally and possess a Christian world view though he
hold heretical doctrines of worship.
The first part of the film covers the difficulties teenaged Ken (Noah Thomas) has at a church summer camp run the the Seventh Day Adventists; he is not «with the program,» and consistently
asks heretical questions during prayer meetings.
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.
Even in this day and age of anything goes, that is a quietly
heretical act.»
Catholicism
if heretical anyway so who cares what they think.»