Sentences with phrase «heretical claim»

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.

His development of Berkeley's thought, however, takes a course that is radically different from that of Hume or Kant, a course that testifies indirectly to the truth of Whitehead's heretical claim that an element of mysticism is unavoidable in rational explanations.

Speaking generally, it is quite correct to seek the boundaries of faith, especially when confronted with a truly heretical claim.

Not exact matches

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.

The Reformation, as Butler shows in his review of the literature, countered that heretical «supernaturalism» to less effect than Protestants liked to claim.

I read it (although I didn't have an early copy claiming ``... the church has no right to exist» which would have raised even my hypokinetic eyebrows) and didn't find it to be heretical.

But those «heretical» movements also claimed to be Christian.

Even if this consensus be granted, however, it is not binding, because the theologians did not claim that their opinion was revealed, or that to take the opposite view was heretical.

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.

Some, like the highly puritanical Sunni «Salafist» movement and its Saudi Arabian theocratic expression «Wahabbism», which claim to be revivals of an original and pure application of the religion, reject all other forms of Islam as inauthentic and heretical.

He continues to claim that he did not do anything criminal, immoral, or heretical and that he should not be disqualified from pastoral ministry.

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.

ISIS effectively claimed that any Muslim outside ISIS was an infidel if not accepting al Bagdadhi as caliph, thereby «protecting» their supporters from other opinions by declaring them heretical.

Skeptic climate scientists follow the Scientific Method in practically pathological fashion, addressing IPCC claims in massive detail, not disparaging them as heretical or making up spur - of - the - moment easily debunked false claims about them.