Sentences with phrase «heretical by»

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.

Stella's later work, deemed heretical by critics, might just be minimalism's Id.

Although the results found passionate admirers,» Holland Cotter explains, «Tawney's work was considered heretical by orthodox craft adherents, but too «craftsy» by the orthodox art world.»

These too sought to conform fully to the standards set by the New Testament but, unlike monasticism, were denounced as heretical by the Catholic Church.

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.

Frequently, these new ideas, new practices, and the people who teach them are condemned as heretical by the established and well - grounded movement.

Having said this, it would be worthwhile to extract what had been said about or by the women prophetesses, in a movement which came to be judged heretical by the «established» church.

Because of the peculiar customs of the Jahriyah sect, which are judged to be superstitious, they are regarded as heretical by the other Muslims.

A new survey reports that «most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by... the councils of the early church.»

The religion, founded in Iran in 1844, is now considered heretical by Iranian authorities.

The first line says it all: «Most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by some of the most important councils of the early church.»

How is it that groups so widely condemned as heretical by Islamic authorities receive so much tacit support from the mainstream Muslim world?

Not exact matches

The new story produced a remarkable followup segment on Fox News, in which Laura Ingraham grudgingly implied that Trump and his allies have proven themselves to be liars by blatantly contradicting themselves — then quickly softened that heretical conclusion by reframing it as though the important thing is what the left will say, not the actual truth of the matter:

A fee structure where a wealth manager was penalised for long - term sub-par performance (e.g. by rebating some of their fee to the client) would counter this, but ideas like this are heretical in the wealth management industry.

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

Well that type of «Christian» was said by the Apostle Paul should be emasculated for their heretical teaching.

The «unfallen» reminds one of the semi-Pelagian affirmation opposed by Augustine, but one needs to remember that de Lubac tried to rescue some aspect of this heretical anthropology.

Justin admitted that other gentile Christians did not show the same leniency.1 By the fourth century, the church had ruled that it was heretical even for believers of Jewish birth to observe the Law.

The LDS were considered heretical for their additional texts; their view on God the Father, Son, and Spirit; Christ's visit to the ancient Americans after his resurrection as translated by their prophet Joseph Smith; and so on.

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.

But even without such a heretical solution she will realize that in view of the complicated conditions of our time in the moral sphere, too, many cases can no longer be decided directly by the official judgment of the Church, but must be left to the individual conscience guided by the great norms of the gospel which she announces.

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.

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.

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.

Alas, such certitude is unavailable to those of us persuaded by the logic of the heretical imperative.

Some Christians do indeed welcome those ««heretical» opinions,» because, in their view, they serve to correct doctrine by its proper biblical standard.

The rabbis who taught in the synagogues held varied opinions on many matters, but when we view them as a whole in their relation to non-Jewish developments and to heretical movements (such as Gnosticism), we are impressed by their unity.

Of course, my personal favorite bit of Irony is the Baptist Church was founded by Roger Williams in his attempt to ensure that there was separatation between Church and State, unlike in Massachusetts Colony, that kicked him out for spreading such heretical thought.

The Armenian was a Monophysite, despised by the Greeks for holding the heretical view that Christ was essentially of one (divine) nature.

on his teaching that there is no eternal hell — which is seen by many Christians as a heretical view.

Influential individual interpreters created schools of interpretation, some of which came to be regarded as orthodox by the general body of Moslems, and some as heretical.

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.

We should remember also that what has been heretical to one age has sometimes been approved by another, and vice-versa.

He would provide a profile of the early Church which was «a religious communion claiming a divine commission, and holding all other religious bodies around it heretical or infidel, a sort of secret society binding its members together by influence and engagement, spread over the whole world, a natural enemy to governments, intolerant and capable of dividing families and breaking laws.

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.»

Thus, any action taken by Christians on the basis of Matthew 18 that involves arrogance, pride, or malice — so common in how some carry out Matthew 18 process — is downright heretical.

But this doctrine was taken for granted by basically all Christians (except some heretical sects) for more than a millennium prior to the Reformation era.

Definition of HERETICAL 1: of, relating to, or characterized by heresy 2: of, relating to, or characterized by: -LRB-(departure from accepted beliefs or standards unorthoodox)-RRB-

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.

By any orthodox standard this basis is heretical.

Beginning with a definition of the Christian idea of responsibility they proceed to examine the erroneous or heretical forms of church responsibility and conclude with an effort to understand the positive content of the Church's social obligation by considering its functions as apostle, pastor and pioneer of humanity.

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.»

Let me close by saying that «cult» does NOT equal «bad people», or in any other way imply disqualification from political office, it is simply a way to distinguish those belief systems which are heretical from the perspective of orthodox Christianity.

In the last century, one thinks of the notoriously heretical Honest To God, by the Anglican John Robinson, or more recently Godless Morality, by the ex-Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway.

The other most widely spread movement branded by the Catholic Church as heretical was that of the Waldenses — also known as the Poor Men of Lyons and as the Poor in Spirit.

The latter part of the fourteenth and the fifteenth century witnessed two movements which were closely related, which sought to bring the Church to a closer approximation to the New Testament, but which were branded by the Catholic Church as heretical.

Through them, as through the monastic and popular, often «heretical,» movements, and through the Papacy and other ecclesiastical organizations, Christianity was being assimilated by the Germanic peoples, and these peoples were placing on it a distinctive stamp.

The «Epiphanian paradigm» treats intra-Christian discord as apostasy and preserves the unity of the Church by expelling those judged heretical.

He defended the taking of bread and wine, the body and the blood, by the laity, which was in no sense a heretical practice.

I think we need to listen to more apparently «heretical» views because I personally believe that much of what is popularly held as true is in fact false and needs to be challenged by opposing views.