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.
He reacts against the heresy of deism, the belief that God wound up the universe in the beginning but lets it run without intervention.
In the famous attack by al-Ghazali (d. 1111) in his Incoherence of the Philosophers, thinkers such as Avicenna were condemned for heresy for their failure to demonstrate the supposed Qur™anic account of physical resurrection and the reality of the afterlife. Mulla Sadra
She rose from humble origins to become a military heroine by the age of 19, although she was ultimately captured and burned at the stake for heresy.
Accepting that the barbarians had come to stay, he spent his years in St Peter's chair sending missionaries to convert them to Christianity or where necessary wean them off the Arian heresy.
Religious heresy denunciations do not appear often, outside of certain insular ultra-orthodox circles.
This outcome of the circumincession of the Persons in the Trinity is so far from introducing Sabellianism, that it is of great use, as Petavius has also observed, for (establishing) the diversity of the Persons, and for confuting that heresy. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
A trial for heresy did not get rid of such disturbing questions. WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
The bouillabaisse can be served with fresh bread spread with garlic butter or, if you wish to commit a certain form of heresy which I often do against a true Marseillaise bouillabaisse, you can put into the soup, along with the tomatoes, seasonings, and fumet, several potatoes, peeled and cut into eighths, boiling them for 10 minutes before adding the fish and olive oil and raising the heat. The Summer of My Greek Tavérna
In fact, the word heresy originally just meant choice. The Templar Revelation
Petrobrusian heresy in his diocese and became a Carthusian; Bl. Bernard (1173-76); St. Stephen (1203-8), formerly a Carthusian at the monastery of Portes; Bl. Didier (Desiderius) de Lans (1213-20). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
Indeed, they are so against the conventional wisdom that they might be termed heresy.
The terrible Torquemada dwelt for years in Valladolid and must there have excogitated some of the methods of the Holy Office in dealing with heresy. Familiar Spanish Travels
In order to avoid charges of heresy (the Inquisition were always sniffing around him), Nostradamus wrote in a deliberately vague and obscure manner.
Heresy or not, what was remarkable about Syrian Christianity in India is its accommodation to the Indian or Hindu way of life.
It is also true, as Colin Gunton makes clear in his essay, that Arianism is a perennial Christian heresy.
One can almost imagine Dan Maskell birling in his grave at this heresy.
The first was the Imperium's bloody-minded refusal to die beneath the weight of heresy, secession, alien aggres?sion and daemonancy.
Heresy was a crime against the state. Roman law in the Code of Justinian made it a capital offense.
So Iowa State has one thing in common with unaccredited Bible colleges and medieval heresy tribunals - our Bible scholars think they can tell our astronomers how to do their jobs.
But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
The civil law world also has known heresy, treason and sedition, though the first has disappeared with the rights of expression born of the enlightenment.
Singing Catholic church music in a post-Reformation church that fire-breathing John Knox may once have preached in may seem like heresy, but St. Mary's Parish Church never blushed one bit. Laurence Vittes: "In Scotland, East of Edinburgh": The Lammermuir Festival of 2011
Even if this isn't heresy, it's bad news for women's claims for equality.
Wiles's work led to future studies which attempted to understand heresy as a system of religious thought rather than ‘a lifeless system of unspiritual pride and hard unlovingness.’
Ten years after his consecration he was delated for heresy by an ecclesiastical court, and subsequently excommunicated from the Anglican Church altogether.
Crazy Fred seems to confuse Christianity with the Manichaean/Cathar heresy. January 22nd, 2009
They called their gospels heresy, and the Nag Hammadi texts were hidden for two thousand years. Change of Heart
The Arians of the Fourth Century helped to establish the historiographic attitude towards heresy in British Arian scholarship.
However, a silence was ill-timed, and though not so designed, might be deemed by some a kind of connivance; for a rising heresy seeks to carry on its work under ground without noise: it is a fire which spreads itself under cover. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
Tribunals of inferior jurisdiction were instructed to send prisoners for heresy, together with the record of their examination, to the sovereign courts of parliament, there to be tried in the "Chambre criminelle. The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Galileo was charged with heresy by the Christian church for having the temerity to suggest that the earth went round the sun.
Augustine spent more than thirty years combating heresy, writing commentaries and interpretations of Christian theology.
The smooth sciolist Stellato rallied his weak wits and uttered a cry of wonder at such flagitious heresy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
There is neither harsh injustice nor unprincipled love nor Christological heresy in that; there is only unfathomable mercy.
Bernard, noting the spread of the Petrobrusian heresy, determined to strike at the source of these errors. The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304
At The Golden Rule there was a response about the irrelevance of distinctions such as orthodoxy and heresy, canonical and extracanonical, when it comes to historical study. Biblical Studies Carnival 41
To some people at the agency, the scheme was a heresy: you're going to put a back door into a cryptosystem and tell people about it? HOW THEY BEAT BIG BROTHER
Ministers began to preach sermons against "Ephemera," and one, who too stoutly stood for much of its content, was expelled for heresy.
It is very difficult to find discussion of heresy or apostasy or even of dissent in Asian thought and literature.
Suppression of the movement in Bulgaria intensified after a 1211 synod condemned the heresy.
The pope and the sacred college had never been dazzled by his specious professions; they were justly offended by the insolence of his conduct; a cardinal legate was sent to Italy, and after some fruitless treaty, and two personal interviews, he fulminated a bull of excommunication, in which the tribune is degraded from his office, and branded with the guilt of rebellion, sacrilege, and heresy. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It's what you'd call the Arian heresy that we have to deal with.
Naturally, some weenies in the online feedback section on the footer of the page are upset by Milne's heresy.
Hacking out at the Old Course is the ultimate heresy.
Using so-called "artifical" contraception, engaging in heresy and being remarried after divorce can all lead to automatic self-excommunication -- especially if one receives the Sacrament of the Eucharist while engaging in such excommunication-worthy conduct. Michele Somerville: Roy Bourgeois Detained At The Vatican For The Crime Of Primacy Of Conscience
It might be considered heresy to suggest such a notion.
Charismatics in America are being informed they are involved in apostasy. 1 of the reasons is they tolerate Catholic heresy and rebellion when they are commanded to correct truth errors. TEXAS FAITH: Is shame still part of our culture? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
To marry a Calvinist was déclassé and a flirtation with heresy if not anarchy.
This heresy was a compound of Priscillianism, the dualism of Manes, Oriental and Gnostic fancies, Gothic Arianism, and indigenous superstition, all fused together in what was known as Albigensianism, and which was hardly Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
He said it was a heresy to suggest that women should not conduct services.
This was termed 'heresy' and the position is known as Arianism, a perspective that still exists today. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Cranmer was tried for treason and heresy when Mary I, a Roman Catholic, came to the throne. AS SEEN ON TV: ARCHBISHOP THOMAS CRANMER
Constantine makes a decree at first, Ten eleutherian zreskeias ouk arnetean einai, "that liberty of worship is not to be denied; and therefore the Christians, as others, should have liberty to keep the faith of their religion and heresy," Euseb., The Sermons of John Owen
_false doctrine, heresy and schism_: false doctrine is the thought; heresy, the plan; and schism, the action -- of a Churchman against the The Prayer Book Explained
Henry Newman got into trouble with the Roman authorities when he wrote that, during the Arian period, it was the people who preserved the authentic faith while bishops and priests lapsed into heresy.
Many Christian readers will recoil in horror at Mr Pullman's plunge into heresy.
But before we are going to accept this new wrinkle (part of the problem is that we have — inevitably — people in the congregation who confuse the category of a wrinkle with that of a heresy crept in unawares) or even think through its theological implications, however, we need to proceed by way of exegetical proof. Realizations of the Unexamined Life « Unknowing
When the germs of the Manichean heresy sought to find a lodgement in the healthy body of Christendom, the reaction of that healthy body was the great Dominican tradition of learning. Liturgy
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.
Apologists of orthodoxy wrote at length about the ease of heresy: the uninsulated wires of heaven can burn without the ecclesiastical electricians.
A classic example was the Franciscan Observant friar Bernardino of Siena, whose cult of the name of Jesus, employing what were effectively magical tablets, sparked off accusations of heresy.
Under the theocracy no such loose system was possible, for heresy might enter in three different ways; first, under the early law, "blasphemers" might form a congregation and from thence creep into the company; second, an established church might fall into error; third, an unsound minister might be chosen, who would debauch his flock by securing the admission of sectaries to the sacrament. The Emancipation of Massachusetts
Indeed, they are so against the conventional wisdom that they might be termed heresy.
In 1593 he was summoned to appear before the Privy Council, accused of heresy, and released on bail while evidence was gathered against him.
I have a notion -- only do not whisper such heresy within college walls -- that a college tutor must be genteel in his _college judgments_, that 'The Polite Letter The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1
Eustace had not had his thoughts turned so much to the progress of heresy, and so little to what was passing in the tower, he might have read, in the speaking eyes of Mary Avenel, now a girl of fourteen or fifteen, reasons which might disincline her youthful companion towards the monastic vows. The Monastery
Hence, magic became part of a growing "underworld" of unorthodox practices, such as necromancy, witchcraft, and heresy -- all forms of deviance from a norm now asserting itself in greater clarity than ever before. What Is Magic?
To doubt is heresy -- to inquire is to admit that you do not know -- the church does neither. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
But it seems you are more willing to take the word of an old gray sorner, whose life has been spent in pattering heresy, than mine, though I never rode a foray in my life without duly saying my paternoster. The Monastery
The cardinal plainly told him so; and as it is, he has signed a paper which they call a recantation of heresy. For the Faith
A few decades earlier Bruno had been found guilty of heresy, and then burned at the stake, for suggesting that Earth may not be the only place in the universe that harbors life.
Hooper and other prominent Protestants were held in custody until the heresy laws could be re-enacted.
The trials of Jesus echoed the criminal procedures of English heresy trials.
Some writers, mainly Protestant, have tried to erase from Adoptionism all stain of the Nestorian heresy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
A convert, whose baptism is considered valid, or who, at most, on his reception into the Church is rebaptized conditionally, is required to make a profession of faith, which contains an abjuration of heresy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
The heresy of the stylelessness is considerably older than that. The Art of Letters
Radical remarks like this amount to heresy for most members of the Republican party.
Galileo was charged with heresy by the Christian church for having the temerity to suggest that the earth went round the sun.
Heaven for sending Jeanie safe down from the land of prelatic deadness and schismatic heresy; and had delivered her from the dangers of the way, and the lions that were in the path. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
In the famous attack by al-Ghazali (d. 1111) in his Incoherence of the Philosophers, thinkers such as Avicenna were condemned for heresy for their failure to demonstrate the supposed Qur™anic account of physical resurrection and the reality of the afterlife. Mulla Sadra
First, the Arian heresy overextends God's unity by referring to diversity and difference in God rather than distinction.
So many were seduced by the Arian heresy that St Athanasius, who championed the Creed at Nicea, famously said, ‘The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.’
For a similar reason, the Donatist heresy was rejected. Augustine vs. Pelagius Part Four - The Politics of Free Will | Heretical Ideas Magazine
Suppression of the movement in Bulgaria intensified after a 1211 synod condemned the heresy.
Eunomian heresy; the African voyage was consecrated by the baptism and auspicious name of the first soldier who embarked; and the proselyte was adopted into the family of his spiritual parents, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
In 2000 it was considered economic heresy to contemplate a breach of the stability pact.
The existence of actual witchcraft required the taint of Christian heresy.
The Templars, who had become successful bankers, were destroyed by the greed of the French King Philip IV who arrested them in 1307 and charged them with heresy, obscenity, and satanism.
Ulfilas was himself a Goth who converted, but he converted to Arian Christianity, and it was the Arian heresy that spread throughout the Gothic tribes.
A third wave of Arian studies has resulted in constructive attempts to understand heresy.
But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: and have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. Acts 24.
Mellors was preaching heresy and had to be immediately defrocked.
The Church defined heresy, and repressed it severely, as when Pope Innocent III launched the armed Crusade that brutally repressed the Albigenses and desolated much of southern France.
He was condemned in 1595 ‘on grave suspicion of heresy’ and forced to make a formal public abjuration.
A third wave of Arian studies has resulted in constructive attempts to understand heresy.
Christ is constantly being "corrected" in Papism and has largely been replaced by the Bible amongst the Protestants; in both cases, the Incarnate Logos (Word) is replaced by scholasticism (separation of intellect from life) and heresy.
The slogan "in by grace, stay in by works, " sometimes associated with the so-called "New Perspective on Paul, " is nothing less than the Galatian heresy condemned by the Apostle Paul.
Philip III is even described as a Catholic Galen, charged with the task of purging the poison and corruption of heresy from the mystical body of Christian Spain.
He summoned Luther to Rome to answer charges of heresy and rebelling against church authority.
But it seems you are more willing to take the word of an old gray sorner, whose life has been spent in pattering heresy, than mine, though I never rode a foray in my life without duly saying my paternoster.” The Monastery
Foodie heresy I know, but I find avocados kind of flavorless and mushy. Sweet Potato Black Bean Cakes Served With Guacamole With Cottage Cheese
And we especially condemn and in God's name execrate those who not only omit both forms but also quite autocratically [tyrannically] prohibit, condemn, and blaspheme them as heresy, and so exalt themselves against and above Christ, our Lord and God The Smalcald Articles
What I hadn't realised was that the same dualistic heresy made it to England, specifically Canterbury and Oxford, where believers were known as "publicans" – nothing to do with barmen, but a corruption of "popelican", whatever that meant. Simon Hoggart's week: Lot valley? The French aren't kidding
He was the first, moreover, to establish an extraordinary and permanent tribunal for heresy trials -- an institution which afterwards became known as the monastic The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church
Arguably, the avoidance of passive secularism led to my own eventual entanglement and heresy trials.
To say otherwise has us flirting with the heresy of defectibility. Bohemian thoughts...
And to contradict the church was heresy. Christianity Today
She committed the heresy of playing a Madonna song on a classical music station.
The zealous friends of the church, as well as those who were enriched by confiscations, represented to the king that this state of things arose from the fact that the higher magistrates, themselves tainted with heresy, connived at its spread, and that the "presidial" judges abstained from employing the powers conferred by the edict, through fear of compromising themselves with the sovereign courts. The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
the suppression of heresy
As has been seen above, the laws of all the states of Europe prescribed concremation as the appropriate penalty for heresy, and even the free commonwealths of Italy recognized the Inquisition as the judge whose sentences were to be blindly executed. "[ Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
Beatus of Liebana, the defender of Spanish orthodoxy against the adoptianist heresy, repeats the Jacobean tradition in the year 780; the same is commemorated by Venerable RORATE CÆLI
It became a deeply religious thing, associated with heresy and used an an explanation for impovershment look it up at the end of bavli bava mesia. In our mouths and in our hearts: Day 43 | Jewschool
When lack of assent begins to appear, it may not indicate heresy or apostasy, but herald dramatic development.
It is heresy, sacrilege, a pockmark upon the face of our National Pastime!
The hounding out of heresy, whether religious or political, is always a symptom of instability in the state.
Radical remarks like this amount to heresy for most members of the Republican party.
It is exactly in such a situation that any suggestion to consider the game sportively rather than sentimentally becomes a heresy.
To come to work without a shirt and tie was considered heresy.
On November 23, 1276 he had summoned three ex-scholars from Paris, now residing in LiÃ¨ge, to appear before his court “probably and gravely suspect of the crime of heresy” (de crimine heresis probabiliter et vehementer suspectos). Condemnation of 1277
Catholics will tell you that one of the proofs of Petrine and Papal supremacy is that Rome is the only patriarchate never to fall into heresy. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
Some of you have noticed that I've just committed heresy and contradicted doctrine.
It might be considered heresy to suggest such a notion.
Our repeated failure to reprove and adequately rebuke heresy calls into serious question our theological system.
First, the Arian heresy overextends God's unity by referring to diversity and difference in God rather than distinction.
the late French historian Georges Duby saw Gothic art as in part a reaction to the Cathar heresy, a civilised counterpart of the bloody Albigensian crusade.
The heresy and apostasy of the MP, like all apostatical movements in history, developed and deepened over time.
We would have gone out to hear the word abroad, but that thou didst reprove us, and also tell us that that which we see now is the way of God was heresy and a deceivable doctrine, and wast not contented, blind guide as thou wert, to fall into the ditch thyself, but hast also led us thither with thee. The Riches of Bunyan
No stranger to publicity, Wilson was most gratified by the media frenzy that greeted this apparent heresy.
Once again we see the disgusting blasphemous heresy that happen when Americans get their hands on the story of Jesus and try to make it into a popular form in order to appeal to the ignorant masses, dumbing it down to the common lowest abominator. Manuel Stimulation
It will doubtless be looked upon as heresy for a children's librarian to own that she has a deal of sympathy for the down-trodden adult of the present; that there have been moments when she has even gone so far as to say an "amen" -- under her breath -- to the librarian who, after a day of vexations at the hands of the exasperating young person represented in our current social writings as a much-sinned-against innocent, wrathfully exploded, "Children ought to be put in a barrel and fed through the bung till they are twenty-one years old! Library Work with Children
His extreme abhorrence of heresy makes him immediately fall upon that of the Docætæ, against which he arms the faithful, by clearly demonstrating that Christ was truly made man, died, and rose again: in which his terms admirably express his most humble and affectionate devotion to our divine Redeemer, under these great mysteries of love. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
The term heresy connotes, etymologically, both a choice and the thing chosen, the meaning being, however, narrowed to the selection of religious or political doctrines, adhesion to parties in Church or The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
In March 1638, after a heresy trial, the clergy excommunicated her.
Here, given the two parties' equal acceptance of temporary and material immediacy, this form of postmodern heresy charge might be an improvement: it just anathematizes a competing sameness.
What really got my attention, though, is that he was excommunicated not once, but twice, for refusing to submit to Papal March 1638, after a heresy trial, the clergy excommunicated her.
He was in early life a Dominican friar, but broke from his order and left Italy to avoid prosecution for heresy.
He opposed most vigorously, by synods and writings, the nascent heresy of Adoptionism (q.v.), one of the few The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Forty-four years after his death, his beliefs were at the center of England's home-grown heresy, Lollardy, and the folks in power responded by disinterring Wycliff and burning his body. Bridget Whearty: What Medieval Times Teach Us About Respecting the Dead
The church services and the passionals of the saint present him as an ardent champion of Eastern orthodoxy, an opponent of the trilingual heresy
Such discourse sanctions heresy and licentiousness; worldlings and the indevout applaud it, the tepid seem to consent to it, and the falsely devout approve it; it is a scandal to the weak, and a dishonor to religion. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
Religious heresy denunciations do not appear often, outside of certain insular ultra-orthodox circles.
As Irving Howe wrote, ‘before the charge of ‘nationalism,’ courageous men quailed, as their grandfathers might have quailed before charges of heresy’.
To consider that the Lady Robinson might be capable of 'fluffiness' would be to contemplate a heresy of such magnitude as to make me fear for my continued existence..... Your comments please
There, at a council of bishops Monotheletism was condemned as a heresy. Orrologion
Mahmud called his troops “ghazi,” warriors for the faith, and termed his campaign a “jihad” to defend orthodox Sunni observance against the heresy of Ismaili Shia. The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire �� 18 The Ghaznavids and Seljuqs
It's what you'd call the Arian heresy that we have to deal with.
Only last month, the racing media had committed similar heresy. Times, Sunday Times
But liberty is abused in an equally insidious way when accusers conflate apostasy with heresy—by alleging that somebody claiming to be a Muslim has erred by advancing false interpretations.
The village of Llanarmon takes its name from its church, which is dedicated to Garmon, an Armorican bishop, who with another called Lupus came over into Britain in order to preach against the heresy of Pelagius. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
According to this doctrine, which I call the puritan heresy, the duality resolves itself into a struggle between the spirit and the flesh. The Complex Vision
He should never turn back from a train of thought because it may lead to a heresy, and he should not mind very much if his unorthodoxy is smelt out, as it probably will be. Writers and Leviathan
Yoder, for example, uses the term eschatological heresy in which the promises of the coming kingdom of God are seen as being fulfilled in history and in the Christendom that results from the Musings of a Postmodern Negro
But why does it have to be political heresy to go the whole hog?
That rejection soon led to the Monophysite heresy, which lives on to this day in the Coptic and Ethiopian churches.
Newton and Locke, on the other hand, leant towards the anti-Trinitarian heresy of Arius of Alexandria that denied Christ and God were consubstantial.
He imposed quotas on imported Japanese cars and saved Detroit, though he was denounced for apostasy and heresy.
In that case the doctrine is termed sententia de haeresi suspecta, haeresim sapiens; that is, an opinion suspected, or savouring, of heresy (see CENSURES, THEOLOGICAL). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
St. Dominic was born in Spain, but fought Albigensianism, a Christian heresy in western Europe. Archive 2008-08-01
They point out that official control, while no longer as fiercely devoted to heresy hunts as before, is so complete in all spheres of art and life, and the caution exercised by the timid and largely ignorant bureaucrats in control of art and literature so extreme, that whatever is new and original among the ambitious young naturally tends to flow into nonartistic channels — the natural sciences or the technological disciplines — where more encouragement to progress and less fear of the unusual obtains. The Arts in Russia Under Stalin
It was the first book I had ever published, the ruthless rebuttal of the Arian heresy which had made my academic reputation in the 1930s. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Newman ushered the study of church history into modernity in England by contextualizing it with the concerns of modernity, yet he did so with heresy as the backdrop.
It was named after a Bishop called Donatus, and was known as the Donatist heresy. Anglican Mainstream
We believe that Christian Zionism is a Christian heresy - it is really misinterpreting the Bible.
He was accused of heresy, brought before convocation, and absolved on making a complete submission, 1532.
He intended his novel to dramatize the conflict between heresy and Christianity.
Perhaps less obvious in the narrative is that heresy trials followed a set pattern and that the political sensitivity of this trial prompted full attention to procedure. The Times Literary Supplement
Actually, some figures of the period, such as Hans Denck and Sebastian Franck, did; but latitudinarianism was itself regarded as a heresy.
Theological argument, when not enlivened by bigotry, is seldom worse than narcotic: but theological fun, when not covert heresy, is almost always sialagogue. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
What was it to him that these uneducated boors, in their feeble ignorance, tried constantly to entrap him into something which they called unorthodox, and to twist his words into the semblance of fancied heresy? St. Winifred's, or The World of School
But this I confess to thee that according to the way which they call a heresy, so do I serve the Father and my God, believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
Newman has produced an understanding of history where the struggle between orthodoxy and heresy results in the eventual defeat of false belief.
Human creeds are responsible for most of the heresy trials and have armed most of the infidelic attacks upon the church. To Infidelity and Back
Radical remarks like this amount to heresy for most members of the Republican party.
The zealots got the upper hand and science was denounced as heresy.
That a notochord should develop out of the archenteric wall because a supporting axis would be beneficial to the animal may be a teleological assumption, but it is at the same time an evolutional heresy. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
She would fall innocently and passionately in love with the doctrines of the Heresy.
So many were seduced by the Arian heresy that St Athanasius, who championed the Creed at Nicea, famously said, ‘The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.’
I think Obama will get some compromises from the GOP the day he stops calling disagreements with him heresy. Think Progress » Obama Reprimands GOP: Stop Saying ‘This Guy’s Doing All Kinds Of Crazy Stuff…To Destroy America’
The council boldly claimed this as the faith of the Church and named Arianism as a heresy and Arians as heretics.
For this "heresy" the Gnostic thought, and its later derivatives such as Cathar doctrines, were ruthlessly suppressed. On Line Opinion - Latest Articles
I think the term heresy should be retained, but only used in instances of doctrine that clearly attacks the nature of God, of Christ, or of Salvation, or otherwise directly contradicts plain Scripture. The word heresy should go the way of burnings at the stake. - 22 Words
The Albigensian Crusade organized to eliminate the Cathar heresy lasted some twenty years. Bloodlust
But one of the reasons they don't accept the papacy as we do is that most of them think the filioque is a heresy defined as dogma by Rome. Archive 2006-11-01
Wilson goes on to maintain that "the triumph of historicism is a pity, not least because the dominance of any orthodoxy tends to deaden the critical faculties," but she has clearly accepted the underlying demonization of formalism (it's "inhuman," to accept it "heresy") that has made the domination of historicism in academic criticism possible. The State of Criticism
This dark corner has been visited through the combination of heresy and apostasy bym separately, Calvinists, English Deists, and French atheists. Quizzing the Anonymous
Her belief that taxes should be higher was heresy.
The slogan "in by grace, stay in by works, " sometimes associated with the so-called "New Perspective on Paul, " is nothing less than the Galatian heresy condemned by the Apostle Paul.
(Latrocinium Ephesinum) of 449, which approved the heresy of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
It was the first book I had ever published, the ruthless rebuttal of the Arian heresy which had made my academic reputation in the 1930s. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS

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