Sentences with phrase «heretical groups»

The writings of the heretical groups, particularly, know how to tell the most miraculous things.

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.

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.

«But doesn't the fact that those heretical groups faded from history tell us something about the worth of their doctrines?»

It is in this context that heretical groups such as Boko Haram and the Islamic State flourish.

Not exact matches

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

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

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».

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.

How ought we to think about other persecuted groups who hold to a heretical understanding of the incarnation or the deity of Christ?

I am recently involved in learning about the lost gospels, the ones that were left out of the Canon because a group of influential men deemed them heretical and probably guilty of stirring up the kind of debate that's been going on in these comments.

Attempts to make the nominally Christian peoples of Western Europe fully to conform to the standards of their faith were not confined to monastic movements and to groups which the Catholic Church branded as heretical.

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.

However, the new (and even heretical) idea that groups of wolves evolved into dogs via natural selection means dogs are not simply domesticated wolves.

Other members of a group called the Clean Air Coalition tried to censure EDF for what Krupp calls «the twofold sin of having talked to the Republican White House and having advanced this heretical idea.»

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.