heresy

How To Use heresy In A Sentence

• The Chinese authorities remain acutely aware of Ai's complex and innovative heresy and in China, an "edgy" artist has to face greater challenges than mockery or dismissive critics. Ai Weiwei: The rebel who has suffered for his art
• It might be considered heresy to suggest such a notion.
• His apparent heresy is not that of the smooth talking cleric, but the statistician specialising in the field of criminology.
• Manichaeism was long treated as a Christian heresy, but it is more clearly understood as an independent religion, drawing on the diverse resources of Christianity, Zoroastrianism , and Buddhism.
• His points were different from those of Photius; he had forgotten the Filioque, and had discovered a new heresy in our use of azyme bread. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
• Anaxagoras compounded this heresy by alleging that the stars were insensate bodies as well, stones carried in orbit by the rapid movement of the heavens and that occasionally a stone might detach itself to become a falling star.
• But to dismiss them without scientific inquiry would be to dogmatise science, and label as heresy any challenge thrown at it.
• There was a t-shirt which had the heading… ‘Putting the smackdown on heresy since 1981.’
• If you are cajoled by the cunning arguments of a trumpeter of heresy, or the praises of a puritanic old woman, is not that womanish? — The Abbot
• The Arians of the Fourth Century helped to establish the historiographic attitude towards heresy in British Arian scholarship.