Sentences with phrase «heretical at»

Besides, haven't I made my own story by modifying earlier material, deeply beloved and staunchly supported by Oz purists (who called me heretical at first) and Judy Garland devotees?

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.

When it does happen — when a group comes up with a novel interpretation that defies the church's historical and present teaching, it usually ends up becoming a small sect at best and heretical at worst.

What I wrote below, in 1997, was almost heretical at the time.

Not exact matches

A few years ago, I watched as my boss at one such title — an offshoot of a brand famous for ranking the nation's 500 largest corporations — proposed to his boss the heretical idea that we cover more startups.

The heretical philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend, on the other hand, claimed that new theories frequently contradict the best available evidence — at least at first.

On the contrary, on the one occasion when Luther's theological proposals received a halfway careful hearing from a representative of the Roman Church, at his meetings with Cardinal Cajetan in Augsburg in 1518, the conclusion reached was that his doctrine of justifying faith was not obviously heretical or in clear opposition to the tradition of the Church.

And until Calvinism does away with it's inherent Nestorianism (which reemerged recently when a group of Calvinists attempted to redefine the Trinity in order to make it compatible with their new doctrine of «complementarianism», you look pretty hypocritical saying that Catholic theology is «at least in parts heretical».

Even though the two scholars represent opposite ends of the evangelical spectrum on salvation, both made essentially the same allegation: the wording seems, at best, theologically careless and, at worst, represents a heretical understanding of sin, human nature, and the human will.

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.

At Washington Bible College and Capital Bible Seminary they taught you how to think thru heretical arguments in light of scripture and come to reason it out for yourself AND how can any CHristian Apologist be worth anything if they don't know and understand the heretical views that oppose Orthodox Christianity!?

It may be that some heretical Christians at the time of Muhammed were teaching this.

I know that I have certain beliefs that some members of my Church would find heretical (like I believe in evolution, the universe being 10 billion years old, and that there has to be at least one other world where the accident we call live followed a similar path to that of Sol - Jupiter 3, or as we know it Earth).

Again, the meaning of 1 Timothy2: 8 - 15, which places various restrictions on women's dress and speech, depends not on our context, but on the double background of Paul's Judaism (where women were exempted from learning) and the situation at Ephesus (where untrained women who had submitted to heretical teachers seem to have been seeking to spread their beliefs, perhaps like the hierodules in the service of the temple of Diana, cf. 2 Tim.

I was a graduate student at Yale when I first heard words like these, and it made me want to delve deeper into the nexus of Harry and Christianity, to see whether the books really were heretical.

I thought he was a weak teacher at best, a heretical charlatan using the Gospel for his own personal gain (and a jet) at worst.

The first possibility would treat God the Father or the Godhead as some sort of vacuous actuality devoid of subjectivity; at any rate it would, like the second possibility, ascribe all divine subjective attributes to the subjectivity of Jesus (who can only have one unified subjectivity, not one divine and one human), which is both implausible and heretical.

For example, if someone were to assert that as he read the Bible the Word of God commanded him to set fire to a «heretical» church, the community of faith (and the political community as well) would insist that this is no Word from God at all, and that the man is not to be honored as a prophet or mystic but to be treated in a mental hospital.

He also justifiably insists that while research on Jewish Christianity has been summoned to argue that Islam is nothing but a Christian heresy, or that Christianity is nothing but an Islamic heresy (or at least a heretical departure from the teachings of the Muslim prophet Jesus), his work attempts to strike a balance between these two trends.

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.»

Interestingly, several of the doctrines we now hold firmly as «sound biblical truth» were at first (and for about 200 years) considered by the majority of people to be «heretical.»

One could look at the Bible and perhaps reach the conclusion that using one's religious beliefs as a cudgel with which to hammer the marginalized is... well, somewhat heretical.»

But the views of Copernicus were regarded as heretical by the church authorities, and an eminent philosopher, Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600), was convicted of heresy in 1594 for professing them and after six years of imprisonment in which he refused to recant, he died at the stake.

On the other hand, the fact that the Coptic manuscript is dated several hundred years after his resurrection, and neatly fragmented with the writing cut - off in the «right» place, suggests that the message most likely would have been a heretical Gnostic scripture, something that was fairly common at the time.

The detail of the argument was not - at issue — it was enough that Luther was challenging authority, Popes and Councils alike, and defending Huss, a heretic known in the popular mind as one who said the laity should receive the wine at communion (not in fact an heretical claim), and whose followers had set up the still flourishing schismatic Church in Bohemia.

The significant teachers of Christian antiquity were not popes, and the heretical teachers did not spread their innovative perceptions from the city at the center of the world.

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.

and The Disturbing World of The Pearls Part 2 in which she takes a look at their heretical Theology.

Fearing religious persecution, Copernicus waited until just before his death in 1543 to publish his heretical theory that Earth circles the sun — and so is not at the center of the universe.

This heretical statement clashes with common sense, which admittedly fails us when talking about the birth of the universe, an event thought to occur at unfathomably high energies.

«Twenty years ago, this would have been heretical; finding evidence of life 3.8 billion years ago was shocking,» said Mark Harrison, co-author of the research and a professor of geochemistry at UCLA.

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.

I think that being a scientist at that era was extraordinarily exciting and challenging, because societies were governed by scholasticism, and new scientific ideas were heretical and potentially punishable by death.

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.

I spent much of my time with the car shifting at 2000 to 2500 rpm, gently loafing around city streets, which would be considered heretical in a true sports convertible.

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.

The Worm guy is famous, but if I had to suggest one person to go look at, I would suggest Heretical Edge.

Internationally acclaimed Texas - based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock is best known for his ongoing narrative and theatrical installations that thrust the viewer literally and figuratively into his personal, idiosyncratic, and, at times, heretical weave of words and images.

The dynamic of any exhibition is the difference between a field of activity, a particular activity in the field and any result stemming from the activity per the animal working the scape, making plans, drawing castles with snout flexed at the heretical, the political, the critical, the magical on the grease of breeze in the mourning air, the tail of the creature coccyx - like almost not a tale at all except for the intention, the goal in every swatted i --

But at the time it was considered heretical by many artists and critics for an avant - garde member of the abstract New York School to reverse course and return to figurative art.

That color - field painting could be narrative, or at least psychological, would once have been heretical.

«My read on it then was that it bordered on the heretical,» says Ben Minteer, an environmental ethicist at Arizona State University.

In a bizarre report produced by Parliament's «Science and Technology Committee,» for example, the British lawmakers also lashed out at the government - funded BBC for occasionally allowing climate realists to express their heretical views.

Several of the law firm KM leaders in attendance saw this as heretical — after all, most of the efforts in our KM teams are aimed at helping the firm or groups within the firm (e.g. practice groups) manage knowledge.

Many of these ideas were considered dangerous to the state, either treasonous or heretical (or both, given the close relationship between church and state at that time), and therefore there was a strong state interest in regulating the content of these publications.

At risk of sounding heretical, there is no conclusive evidence that most of them have any significant, positive effect on re-offending, be it on determinate or indeterminately sentenced prisoners.

Many of these ideas were considered dangerous to the state, either treasonous or heretical (or both, given the close relationship between church and state at that time), and... [more]