Sentences with phrase «more heretical»

I'm glad that I'm seeing an increase in interactive - merit - chasers, but I wonder if we could be chasing it in a larger variety of ways, perhaps ways that are a bit more heretical to the ancient abstracts.

But what makes the lack of love even more heretical, is that a lack of love often leads religious people to do horrendous and hurtful things «in the name of Jesus,» which makes these actions not just heretical, but satanic and evil.

The once - stellar giants of theology in the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant «mainstream» have faded from the scene, only to be replaced by a new array of religious inventions bent on undermining the faith of the fathers in ever more heretical ways.

Not exact matches

A few years ago, I watched as my boss at one such title — an offshoot of a brand famous for ranking the nation's 500 largest corporations — proposed to his boss the heretical idea that we cover more startups.

Baptism says and does much more than these heretical evasions of the rite, and we are willing to go to absurd lengths to protect ourselves from it.

LOL @ Blake, and mainstream christianity largely considers mormonism to be nothing more than a heretical cult, what's your point?

Some Catholics insist that both men are heretics, to be suffered within the community only if they mute their voices; others say that they represent more authentic versions of the faith than the various beliefs and practices they are challenging, and that it is the institution rather than the individual that is heretical.

That said, there are so many more books etc. to support Crossan's views and other to make you think about other possibly heretical truths.

Any theology that so widens the gulf between Jesus and other human beings as to suggest that he is an alien intruder into our human situation is to be rejected, not only because it is heretical but more importantly because it makes nonsense of the Gospel record and denies the dignity and reality of that life once lived among us.

The revealed account of creation mentions only the «dust of the earth» as material cause; there is no certain scientific doctrine to the contrary; therefore there is no reason to abandon a «literal» interpretation of Genesis, all the more so as the history of the theory of evolution shows that this tends to be regarded in a radically materialistic way as a complete explanation of man's origin, and so involves theses which are certainly heretical.

American * Christianity * has always been a bit heretical with its emphasis on law over love; but with the advent of the Moral Majority / Religous Right many Christians have become more like the Pharisees than like the disciples who followed Jesus.

Thus more than two - thirds of Americans are heretical with respect to what is for Bloom the American religion.

Demarest explains, «The early church defended itself against heretical teaching by appealing to «the rule of faith» or «the rule of truth», which were brief summaries of essential Christian truths... The fluid «rule of faith» gave way to more precise instruments for refuting heresies and defining faith, namely, creedal formulations such as the Apostles» Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Definition of Chalcedon and the Athanasian Creed.»

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.

To me, for example, one of the most exciting recent developments in Spinoza scholarship is Carlos Fraenkel's argument that Spinoza could have adopted a more conciliatory approach to biblical interpretation, one that would reinterpret the Bible in accordance with his teachings, thus mitigating their heretical tone.

In the last century, one thinks of the notoriously heretical Honest To God, by the Anglican John Robinson, or more recently Godless Morality, by the ex-Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway.

I'm now being labeled wounded, depressed, heretical, not pastor - material, sabbatical - deprived, hedonistic, and more.

Heretical, pantheistic mysticism continued to exist even though orthodox Sufism became more widely known through the Sufi orders.

I think we need to listen to more apparently «heretical» views because I personally believe that much of what is popularly held as true is in fact false and needs to be challenged by opposing views.

The text declared that it was heretical to point out that the three parts of the Sacrament of Penance, contrition, confession, and satisfaction are not to be found in the New Testament; it was heretical to say that the laity should communicate in both the consecrated bread and the consecrated wine; it was heretical to say that it was contrary to the will of the Spirit to burn heretics; and soon, along with the more technical doctrinal matters of Indulgences, good works, and free will.

It is heretical to say, as did Nazi theologians, that national solidarity is more sacred than our unity in Christ.

But I do know it won't happen by even more furious denunciations of others, by focusing on politics rather than prayer, by concerning ourselves with the sex lives and heretical thoughts of others rather than with the constant struggle to liberate ourselves from what keeps us from God.

Some describe him as dangerous and heretical, while others credit his teaching with restoring their faith... More

Not to be heretical, but I'm pretty sure Tom Brady has benefited more from the influence of the Dark Lord than vice versa.

The problems in rich societies such as most of those in Europe is not, heretical as this is to say, caused by these societies somehow not being wealthy enough (and therefore requiring more GDP growth, and the associated promotion and veneration of «wealth creators» and establishing ideological divisions within society between «shirkers and strivers» etc.).

More importantly, the Church considers her ideas, particularly that the Earth revolves around the Sun (and not the other way around) down right heretical.

I know this may sound heretical, since anyone who has spent more than a minute in an inner city school or neighborhood (see my Ed Next story on two Chicago charters) knows the intensity of the social dysfunction — and no school is immune to its effects.

One reason I picked Heretical Edge over Worm / Pact / Twig etc is that it is a lot more positive and happy.

As Joe will note in his article, I'm an advocate of much more caution about stock investing than seems to prevail today (thanks, in my opinion, to Wall Street marketing), and I hold what many would consider heretical views on equity investing.

Confronting issues as commanding and disturbing as consumerism or the objectification of women and more particularly the hyper - sexualization of the black female in Western culture, Mutu also tackles various other heretical topics, including fornication, mutilation, or gynecological diseases of the female organs.

It may be heretical to say it, but I think he's a more important figure in American environmentalism than Rachel Carson, if only because of the range of issues he addressed and the methods he brought to his activism.

In this case pause memes are effecting their influence independently of veracity just like CAGW memes, and their acceptibility may be better explained by the fact that «pause» is a term which allows the faithful to accommodate more recent observations, without being seen (except by the manic fringe), as too heretical.

Catholic religious truths have I beleive 5 or more defined levels of certainty from De Fide Definita down to any non heretical opinion.

So I would agree that they might be considered «brave» for publishing a paper that would certainly have been seen as heretical / sceptical ten years ago, (although I'm told there are a lot more sceptical papers getting past the gatekeepers in the past year than used to be the case,) but no, I don't believe it.

Many of these ideas were considered dangerous to the state, either treasonous or heretical (or both, given the close relationship between church and state at that time), and... [more]