For centuries, however, the two sides condemned
each other as heretical.
Not exact matches
By declaring and conducting jihad on their own, al - Qaeda, IS, Boko Haram, and
other such groups act
as heretical usurpers.
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.
I know that I have certain beliefs that some members of my Church would find
heretical (like I believe in evolution, the universe being 10 billion years old, and that there has to be at least one
other world where the accident we call live followed a similar path to that of Sol - Jupiter 3, or
as we know it Earth).
Also in fact, the Puritans and many
other Christian sects refused to celebrate Christmas
as a
heretical holiday.
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.
Because of the peculiar customs of the Jahriyah sect, which are judged to be superstitious, they are regarded
as heretical by the
other Muslims.
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.
The
heretical question
as to what men and women ought to offer one another may be worth pursuing if for no
other reason than it prevents us from stepping in the paradigmatic alternatives.
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.
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.
He should issue a Bull condemning various theses, some
as «offensive to pious ears»,
others as actually «
heretical», but not naming Luther.
Some describe him
as dangerous and
heretical, while
others credit his teaching with restoring their faith... More
Certainly there is a tradition that the defeated
heretical monks held a rival council of ten thousand members, known
as the Great Council, and drew up a different recension of the scriptures which among
other things, according to the Dipavamsa, 1 «broke up the sense and doctrine in the five Nikayas,» and «rejecting some portions of the Sutta and the profound Vinaya, they made another counterfeit Sutta and Vinaya.»
ISIS effectively claimed that any Muslim outside ISIS was an infidel if not accepting al Bagdadhi
as caliph, thereby «protecting» their supporters from
other opinions by declaring them
heretical.
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.