Sentences with phrase «modern heresy»

Preaching to the Choir: Marston Tackles Modern Heresy in Orthodox Glance at Evangelical Hypocrisy There are...

Finally, the separation of science from theology is a modern heresy that has no justification in the scriptures.

The most noble way to interpret the Declaration is as a compromise between Lockean and Puritanical factions, a compromise between two modern heresies that each contains part of Christian truth.

Not exact matches

Old heresies never die, but we would have thought that of all the classic heresies, Arianism is the one moderns are least likely to revive.

As both a sociologist and a Christian (though he admits that he has not yet found the heresy into which his theological views comfortably fit), Berger attempts to deal with the alleged demise of the supernatural in our modern world.

This sort of teaching was part of the Gnostic heresy in the early church, but has worked its way through numerous forms of the modern church as well.

Ladaria recognizes that «insofar as Gnosticism and Pelagianism represent perennial dangers for misunderstanding Biblical faith, it is possible to find similarities between the ancient heresies and the modern tendencies.»

Seen in this light the modern totalitarian regimes, whatever their initial defects, are neither heresies nor biological regressions: they are in line with the essential trend of «cosmic» movement.

Pope Benedict's call to embark on a common search for the truth is a heresy in modern Britain where the very notionthat there is truth in morality is seen as discriminatory.

He saw heresy rather as Prince Charles sees much of modern architecture,

A man who has gone to some lengths to criticize «modern gnosticisms» should be brought up short when he falls into the same heresy.

This was never going to last, since heresy and relativism had, of course, never disappeared from the «papal agenda» and neither — perhaps more to the point — had his (and his predecessor's) analysis that disunity in the modern church was the result of a clash between two different interpretations of the Council itself, one right, the other wrong: as Benedict once more explained it, as his first Christmas as Pope approached in December 2005, «On the one hand, there is an interpretation that I would call «a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture» [i.e., the line peddled by The Tabletfor thirty years]; it has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology.

He homes in on More's attitude to heresy, which from a modern stance seems the height of intolerance.

Before we judge them (by our modern lights) guilty of «heresy,» we should at least try to understand why their reasoning seemed to them persuasive.

Enns argues that many modern - day evangelicals have assumed an attitude toward Scripture that is analogous to the Docetism heresy, which held that Christ only appeared to be human.

To absolutize reality in these terms is, as a number of theologians have suggested, the heresy of modern times.

The modern theological mind, informed by this dualistic outlook, so often merely recapitulated ancient Arian heresies.

It is the heresy that in even more modern times the churches fell into when they condemned the right of women to vote and interracial marriage.

The three - channel video, OverRuled (2011), presents an modern remake of the trial of 10th century Sufi dervish martyr, the poet Mansur Al - Hallaj, accused of heresy and executed by public dismemberment.

Christianity, with its endless heresies and bloody conflicts, didn't stop the continent from founding modern civilisation.