Sentences with phrase «heretical sects»

In dismissing the feminine Holy Spirit as an idea present only in «obscure and heretical sects on the periphery of the Christian church,» Jewett had relied on research that did not take into account the 1945 discovery near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, of some 50 ancient texts.

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.

Peasant Russia was rife with heretical sects.

While you find my church a problem and I yours as a heretical sect, it was good to see you grow to some extent.

it seems like its u who belong to heretical sect of Christianity since ur not following the true bible.

First, Hobgood - Oster passes on the allegation, popular these days on countless websites, that Pope Gregory IX's bull against a heretical sect «began a series of mass slaughters of cats throughout Europe.»

ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French heresie, based on Latin haeresis, from Greek hairesis «choice» (in ecclesiastical Greek «heretical sect»), from haireisthai «choose.»

The latter idea is a fantasy contrived by the medieval inquisitors in order to make the case that witches constituted a heretical sect.

Not exact matches

How about some articles about Afro - Carribean faiths, or Ancestor veneration in Asia, or neo-greek pagans, or Sikhs, or Chritisian «heretical» sects like the arians etc etc etc etc

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.

The only sects of any importance among the Sunnis are the Wahhabis, the reformist sect of Arabia, and the Qadiani sect of Pakistan which is generally looked upon as somewhat heretical — although its Lahori branch is not always so regarded.

Also in fact, the Puritans and many other Christian sects refused to celebrate Christmas as a heretical holiday.

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

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.

X wants Junk's help to meet the Reverend Nagil, leader of a heretical religious sect; but Junk suspects that X has hidden motives for this meeting.