Sentences with phrase «saw heresy»

It was a profoundly simple solution, and at first no one saw heresy or unorthodoxy in it.

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

Karol Wojtyla started out as a great Pope before Josef Ratzinger was appointed as Chief of the Inquisition and made the Pope see Heresy in every piece of dissent.

Obviously, there are some solid doctrines to stand on, but I've seen the heresy label thrown at far too little things, especially with far too little Biblical support.

See The Heresy Myth

Not exact matches

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that it is the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of conviction: as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith.

In this New Age heresy, biology is implicitly seen as something that enslaves us and so in that sense it is despised, it is seen as something negative and bad.

Like, I would see his face on the TV or grinning from yet - another - bestseller on the rack at the Barnes and Noble and want to shriek words like «heresy!»

The old saw that God helps those who help themselves is pagan and false, but like any heresy that is not a truth dislocated it is a truth with a falsifying twist.

Behind this heresy, which I saw penetrating into the church, there stood from the very beginning the one who soon stepped out as the far more dangerous adversary, the one hailed at the beginning — and not least by many Christians — as deliverer and savior: Hitler, himself the personification of National Socialism.

They looked around them and saw their tiny movement opposed by the greatest empire the world had known, opposed by local political and religious leaders, and riven by internal schism and heresy.

He was by then almost eighty years old, but the passion with which he sought to defend the market order against what he saw as the heresy of collectivism was undiminished.

Secondly I argue that the New Testament's seeing Jesus as example is a necessary correlate of what later theology calls his divine sonship (the other side of the «incarnation»), in such a way that those who downgrade the weight of Jesus» example, on the grounds that his particular social location or example can not be a norm, renew a counterpart of the old «Ebionitic» heresy.

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.

However the biggest factor in the decline was Islam's rejection of critical thought (see Al Ghazzalis work the Incoherence of the Philosophers) stating it was heresy in the face of what was divinely revealed.

some one stop me I'm falling back to the ice age and cave drawing oh no heresy i can see Mitochondrial Eve now and what she worshiping a carving of Nature under an elder tree 200,000 years ago in Eden

I would see his face on the TV or grinning from yet - another - bestseller list and want to shriek words like «heresy!»

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.

When I read between the lines of the New Testament, I see, along with the good, a very chaotic community that struggled with the same issues the contemporary church struggles with: ambition, power, position, money, possessions, charismata and worship, order, heresy, dress, the abuse of the sacraments, teaching, and so on.

St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, had had to defend the divinity of Christ against the extremely widespread Arian heresy that saw Jesus as just the highest human being.

Highlights for me included: 1) Belcher's call in Chapter 3 to find common ground in classic / orthodox Christianity (the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) which, if applied, would dramatically reduce some of the name - calling and accusations of heresy that have been most unhelpful in the discussion between the emerging and traditional camps, 2) Belcher's fabulous treatment of postmodernism and postfoundationalism in Chapter 4, where he rightly explains that when talking about postmodernism, folks in the emerging church and the traditional church are using the same term to refer to two completely different things, and where he concludes that «a third way rejects classical foundationalism and hard postmodernism,» and 3) Belcher's fair handling of the atonement issue in Chapter 6, in which he clarifies that most emergering church leaders «are not against atonement theories and justification, but want to see it balanced with the message of the kingdom of God.»

When I looked it up I saw that they mixed it up with some other things that I do not believe, and that's true of every heresy I've ever looked into.

You see I'm going back to one of the early heresies, patripassionism.

I could not bear the smell, the sights, the truth of this place, and I saw babies the age of my tinies there, naked, hollering HEY YOU snapping sass, and all of my carefully reasoned understandings about how everyone has a different calling and some of us are just called to different things than poverty relief and caring for orphans stank rank like heresy.

As is clear from the New Testament, the apostles were not afraid to call out heresy when they saw it.

In the previous posts we have seen that heresy is not what we think.

She'd fallen hard for David Kamper, then a doctoral student in anthropology, «a sweet and soulful Jewish man from my California hometown: a man who saw no enmity in me, a man who would never put me on trial, a man who would never audit my heart for heresy,» she says in her memoir.

As we have seen in the case of Frederick II, the reasons that kings and emperors, even those at war with the papacy, listed heresy first among the crimes against the state were several and profound.

I think that we will see that if there is any heresy here at all, it might be found within the doctrine of inspiration itself.

Fuelled by the desire to see his face, our fathers in the faith became progressively purified of the perennial threats to faith of heresy and idolatry.

St Francis de Sales (one of the first to see the dangers of heresy at Port Royal) and other saintly spiritual writers who advocated frequent communion saw it as a practice requiring regular confession and serious preparation.

The development called forth anew as history goes on will often be seen to depend on orthodox and Catholic doctrine which was unpopular at the time, perhaps which went clean contrary to the mood of the times, and the always ready concessions of well - meaning heresy.

This approach - look at me, honestly wrestling with doubt and modernity, unlike the rest of you unquestioning drones who just believe what The Man tells you - is hardly new, and the desire to be seen as a brave, innovative rebel rather than a staid, boring upholder of orthodoxy, is a strong one and has doubtless been the root of many a heresy.

Yesterday we looked at several passages in Scripture that talk about «heresy» and we saw that heresy does not exist — at least, not the way we think of it today.

By better understanding orthodoxy's opponents, we more clearly see what was at stake in its attacks on «heresy.»

The fear I most witness in the believer / atheist debate is on the side of those who do not wish to have their god's existence questioned (see violent acts against «heresy» in the past and in current muslim behavior).

He attempted to enforce clerical celibacy, forbade pluralism, (the holding of two or more church offices and drawing the income from them), endeavored to exclude lay interference in ecclesiastical affairs, affirmed the right of Rome to review important cases under canon law and thus increased appeals to the Holy See, ordered that tithes for the support of the Church be given precedence over all other taxes, and took vigorous measures for the suppression of heresy.

I was especially pleased to see one of my favorite bloggers, Dr. Richard Beck, join the rally with a post in which he asks, «Can you hate the heresy but love the heretic?»

Now, we are sure that tradition reinterpreted and no doubt somewhat modified the story in the light of this heresy; but we are unable to see any reason for denying that the story was already in existence then and that in fact the Yahwistic heresy of image representation began in the beginning of Israel's life as a people, in the first, Mosaic chapter of that life.

One could readily maintain that Jesus so opened himself up to the leading of his «Father» that he began to see his world more and more from God's perspective, rather than seeing God from the world's perspective as the rest of us do.9 This is one more instance, like patripassianism, where heresy may one day be received as orthodoxy.

I rarely see disagreement as heresy, but do believe there is a line in Scripture where heresy begins.

Such declarations of heresy certainly do not help anyone who is caught in error to «see the light» (assuming they are in error and your beliefs are true).

Not surprisingly, there are some who see that as heresy.

If you were ever curious to see the deranged precursor to Bruce Wayne, something which very well may be considered heresy, American Psycho comes close.

But I'm betting that it's Galileo - style heresy; with proper teacher training in place, a few years from now people like Peltz will be seen as prescient.

Transcendent religions like Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism see this world as defective, and consider the romantic divinizing of nature to be a heresy.

If the brand faithful thought that the Cayenne and Panamera were heresy, they ain't seen nothing yet.

I can see where * HERESY ALERT * Smartglass might make mouse - dependent games like RTS workable on a thumb - centric controller, but my gut tells me that they're missing the mark here.

As dissenters multiply, they become harder to dismiss, and you often see this accusation that they are all the same person (of course, to a true believer, all heresy sounds the same).

Overall, as we can see, the faithful do not respond well to heresy or apostasy, as defined by themselves and their high priests.