Sentences with phrase «views as heretical»

But the Catholic church, which accepted the geocentric theory, rejected Galileo's views as heretical and forced him to recant.

Some view it as heretical, but I personally find Ripple's approach refreshing.

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The first line says it all: «Most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by some of the most important councils of the early church.»

The LDS were considered heretical for their additional texts; their view on God the Father, Son, and Spirit; Christ's visit to the ancient Americans after his resurrection as translated by their prophet Joseph Smith; and so on.

The rabbis who taught in the synagogues held varied opinions on many matters, but when we view them as a whole in their relation to non-Jewish developments and to heretical movements (such as Gnosticism), we are impressed by their unity.

A new survey reports that «most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by... the councils of the early church.»

on his teaching that there is no eternal hell — which is seen by many Christians as a heretical view.

However, I think holding a heretical view, as I defined it as denial of an essential doctrine, is to deny the Savior and his salvation.

The comment was meant as a critique of the article and a demonstration of how its views would be considered heretical in most churches and to most scholars who study theology.

But the views of Copernicus were regarded as heretical by the church authorities, and an eminent philosopher, Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600), was convicted of heresy in 1594 for professing them and after six years of imprisonment in which he refused to recant, he died at the stake.

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.

Cantor probably fell from a combination of heretical views on immigration (let minor children stay) and his role as majority leader (it kept him a little remote from his district).

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.

I would argue that there is a need for heresy only from the standpoint of people who view one perspective as heretical.