Sentences with phrase «heretical forms»

But Christianity and Zoroastrianism were also persecuted and their monasteries suppressed because they were regarded as heretical forms of Buddhism and therefore came under the edict of the emperor against foreign religions.

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.

There are a whole lot of heretical forms of Buddhism, quasi-Buddhism in Japan and quasi-Shinto, and each one has a nice idea but it has some other ideas which are not so nice.

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.

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In fact, to suggest that good works are of central importance to the Christian faith is often considered heretical in the world of conservative evangelicalism, where advocating any form of «works - based salvation» is looked upon with suspicion.

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.

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.

This brief reference should suffice to show that from the very beginning of Islam on Java mystic contemplation existed in both its orthodox and its heretical, pantheistic forms.