Sentences with phrase «heretical movement»

It will be necessary, however, to go back to the beginnings of the new heretical movement in Hinduism and see how it arose and what therefore these new scriptures have to say on the great central themes of Hindu scripture.

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.

Heretical movements (e.g., the Albigenses) were organized under the direct influence of the new contact of the Western peoples with the East.

Threats just as serious to the vitality of Christendom came from within, from a succession of schismatic and heretical movements.

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.»

Into ecumenicalism, spiritual isolation, or perhaps the ethno - centric heretical movements waiting to affirm our ethnic identity while juxtaposing a caricature of the Church with their loving familial structure?

Not exact matches

In addition to the classic missionary and indigenous Pentecostalisms, he identifies some heretical Pentecostal movements and the so - called Pentecostalisms of divine healing and prosperity.

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

That's why I am encouraged when I see leaders like Lee Grady speaking up on some of the dangers of such heretical and carnal expressions — Grady and others do so not as professional critics, but rather as respected insiders to the movement, and they explain the challenges well.

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.

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.

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

There were in the later Middle Ages a number of movements regarded as heretical.

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.

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.

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.

Significantly, almost all of both kinds of movements — monastic and heretical — had their origin and their major rootage in areas which had once been within the Roman Empire.

[2] Within Roman Catholicism, the Jansenist movement, which the Church then declared heretical, also maintained that original sin destroyed freedom of will.

If ever there was such a world — and I doubt it — it can not be introduced in modern Western society without coercive government suppression of heretical (as the government sees them) movements.