How To Use Heretic In A Sentence

We may earnestly believe that they're wrong - whether they're non-Christians, heretics, apostates, agnostics, atheists, or what have you.
What we should not do is suppress dissent, close off argument and condemn those who question the standard line as heretics.
Moreover it seems to me atrocious that we who insist on seven millions of Catholics supporting a church they call heretical, should dare to talk of our scruples (conscientious scruples forsooth!) about assisting with a poor pittance of very insufficient charity their 'damnable idolatry.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I made the then heretical suggestion that it might be cheaper to design new machines.
Peckinpah was a heretical filmmaker.

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Hanuman loved playing the heretic as he loved playing chess. THE BROKEN GOD
As early as 1532, in a famous memorial meant for Clement VII, he called for the repression of the friars, priests, preachers, confessors, and books he saw as responsible for the spread of heretical ideas among the Italian populace.
It is time to leave stoning as a form of capi tal punishment behind us as a race, to relegate it to the same place we have put stringing heretics on racks -- in a chapter of our past that we are not proud of. José Ramos-Horta: An Appeal for Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani
He had an extensive collection of heretical materials, and was housing a subversive.
These beliefs existed within the interstices of official faith and ritual and churchmen did not necessarily see them as pagan, unchristian, heretical or erroneous.
Thus, the schismatic group was not necessarily heretical.
Dank, damp and almost unrelievedly joyless, the Starz miniseries tells a fictional tale of 12th-century politics and the skullduggery that was supposedly part of it, as knaves and heretics vie for the throne of a mucky, pig-ridden and sparsely populated England. TV preview: 'The Pillars of the Earth'
I made brief mention recently of the heretical view that the HIV virus does not cause AIDS.
Far from being a heretic, he loyally endorsed the essentials of church doctrine.
At one time, diabolical machines were devised for torture: from the brank, the brazen bull, and the breaking wheel to the heretic's fork, the instep borer and the iron maiden. Russ Wellen: What Is It with Men and Torture?
Early examples of the genre often depicted real or imagined debates between a heretic and a Catholic and originated primarily in monastic communities, from the pens of such prestigious abbots as Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter the Venerable. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Contempt and derision were now poured not upon the heretical supporters of change, but upon their orthodox opponents.
The penal constitutions of the Judaical polity (for so they were, which yet I urge not) concerning idolaters, must be stretched beyond their limits, if you intend to inwrap heretics within their verge. The Sermons of John Owen
A solemn anathema is pronounced against Nestorius and Eutyches; against all heretics by whom Christ is divided, or confounded, or reduced to a phantom. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
And it's a deep still well, an igloo in the snow and a heretics' church.
The coachman hates the automobile, the hand-worker hates the machine, the orthodox preacher hates the heretic, the politician hates the reformer, the doctor hates the bacteriologist and the chemist, the old woman hates the new -- all these in varying proportions according to the degree in which the iconoclast attacks laziness or livelihood. The Price She Paid.
Strikes which damage the innocent are as justified in achieving the stated aim as burning heretics.
Western method of keeping Easter on the Sunday after the fourteenth day of the moon should be adopted throughout the Church, believing no doubt that this mode fitted in better with the historical facts and wishing to give a lasting proof that the Jewish Passover was not, as the Quartodeciman heretics believed, an ordinance of Christianity. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
Excommunication threatened the eternal life of heretics and schismatics, while the Holy Inquisition concentrated the minds of defiant Catholics by handing them over to the civil power for a spot of torture or burning.
Care needs to be taken to distinguish between teachers that are misguided and those that are rank heretics who have rejected the faith.
In 1543 he was condemned to be burnt as a heretic for his adherence to Calvinism, but he was reprieved by Henry VIII and on his release from prison returned to St George's.
BTW, you're last post used the word heretic, which is inconsistent with your previous posts. Those contemptuous atheists... why won't they be kind?
Some churchmen are heard to grumble about violations of the prohibitions of shared worship with heretics and schismatics.
However, a few heretics survived - and among them Jacques Monod, who played a decisive role in my decision to return to the problem of lysogeny. André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture
As the church was trying to [reinvent] him," he said, mentioning the efforts of Pope John Paul II in the early 1990s to clear Galileo's reputation as a heretic, "[scholars] were trying to reconvict him. The Rebel Yell
They flayed the heretic, the back-talker, the smartmouth, and stretched his still-living flesh to crack and writhe in the hot African wind, till the hyena or the crocodile came along to finish him. The best way to understand government « Isegoria
As the three heretics walked to the gibbet, some young boys plunged sharp sticks through the cracks in the walkway.
For every heretic it burned at the stake, thousands of others rose up.
When Pope John XXIII condemned the Bohemian Reformer John Hus to the flames as a heretic, at the Council of Constance in 1415, he also anathematised the Englishman John Wyclif.
Any uprisings caused by religious heretics could bring pain and suffering to the whole Jewish population.
Nineteen years old, her head shaven, surrounded by placards branding her a witch, idolatress, and abjured heretic, she invoked the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, and St Michael the Archangel. Jehanne la Pucelle
Dominic, whom he joined in laboring for the conversion of the heretics.
Dante's punishment for the "arch heretics and those who followed them" was that they be "ensepulchered" and to have some "heated more, some less."
I am English, born in Britain, but I am referred to as a heretic, unbeliever, infidel, etc., because I am a Pagan.
He wondered whether his brother could have made it flying in such a formation, then quickly dismissed such heretical thoughts from his mind. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
Theologians attack his anti-religion stance and the heretical simply don't buy his pagan leanings.
Blasphemous and heretical Warden of San Quentin whose feet have fast hold of hell," I gibed, after I had drunk deep of the water they held to my lips. Chapter 12
Jordaens was fined 200 pounds and 15 shillings for scandalous or heretical writings between 1651 and 1658. Archive 2009-03-01
Sure whin Twenty-five comes, we'll have our own agin: the right will overcome the might -- the bottomless pit will be locked -- ay, double: boulted, if St. Pettier gets the kays, for he's the very boy that will accommodate the heretics wid a warm corner; an 'yit, faith, there's: many o' thim that myself 'ud put in a good word for, affcher all. The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
If he intervened to prevent her death, he would be branded a heretic.
a single, demon-inspired source, and he was uncritically followed by later antiheretical writers. GNOSTICISM
How could any gold advocate say such heretical things?
It's the way Xavi, Barcelona et. al. and all the Spain/ tika-taka devotee's look upon anything else as vaguely heretical. How do you like your sour grapes, Señor Xavi Hernández? | Richard Williams
They sought regeneration - a regeneration we can liken to that of the medieval heretic or saint.
It clearly would cover any incitement of hatred by the religious against its heretics, apostates, or members of other faiths.
We went to a Catholic school; yet we were known to the nuns to be the children of heretics who had rejected the Pope's rulings.
He sought in what time precisely the creed attributed to the apostles was digested, and that which bears the name of Athanasius; how the sacraments were instituted one after the other; what was the difference between synaxis and mass; how the Christian Church was divided since its origin into different parties, and how the predominating society treated all the others as heretics. A Philosophical Dictionary
It seems almost heretical to question the merit and durability of the U.S. alliance with South Korea.
Even the antipopes were rarely heretical.
But a lot of Christians in Rome,the Bishop of Rome, a lot of other people,considered Marcion a heretic for this.
The heretics Marcion and Valentinus believed that God was androgynous.
The early-Christian "Jesus cult" was very different from the organized Christianity of our own age, as Elaine Pagels showed in this classic study of the so-called "heretical" traditions of Christianity in the first few centuries after Jesus' death—that is to say, all those diverse traditions that the church establishment later took care to brand as wrong. Five Best: Religious Cults In Antiquity
Ali censures the heretic with a playful stare.
To the east was the Afghan Taliban, a regime that espoused a ruthless brand of Sunni Islam and viewed Iran's Shia Muslim leaders as heretics.
Herbert states that Attila is represented on an old medallion with a teraph, or a head, on his breast; and the same writer adds: "We know, from the _Hamartigenea_ of Prudentius, that Nimrod, with a snaky-haired head, was the object of adoration of the heretical followers of Marcion; and the same head was the palladium set up by Antiochus Epiphanes over the gates of Antioch, though it has been called the visage of Charon. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
The ginger-haired baby Elizabeth is mainly a squalling infant in the period of the narrative, which chiefly covers the years 1527 – 35, but in the figure of her sibling Mary, one is given a chilling prefiguration of the coming time when the bonfires of English heretics will really start to blaze in earnest. The Men Who Made England
Don't indiscriminately consider nationalism to be heretical.
After Nestorius was condemned, Pelagius and his followers were again attacked by Augustine, Jerome, and others as heretics. Augustine vs. Pelagius Part Four - The Politics of Free Will | Heretical Ideas Magazine
The problem with the Windsor Report's reference to the canons of Nicaea, some conservatives have responded, is that it focuses on the wrong heretics.
The Church regards spirit mediums and people claiming to speak to the dead as heretical. GRACE
The character of Theophilus is a rare example in which religious zeal has allowed, and perhaps magnified, the virtues of a heretic and a persecutor. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
That is an important message, as strange and heretical as it seemed when we first started.
He lets her read heretical magazines and brings her some lotion.
Such were, apparently, the synods held in Asia Minor at Iconium and Synnada in the third century, concerning the re-baptism of heretics; such were, certainly, the councils held later in the northern part of Latin The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
If the Western imperial church hadn't burned heretics and crusaded against Christians who objected to the Crusades, we'd have a lot more who aren't obsessed with the crucifixion. Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: The Ideological Roots Of Christian Terrorism
Afterwards I remained an unpersecuted heretic and never underwent any of these popular operations. A Padre in France
It was once dismissed as the heretical idea of green campaigners.
Constantius, an Arian and therefore technically a heretic, returned the Empire to a single rule.
This includes an awareness of the value of dissenting voices and even heretical opinions in the Christian past.
Such a departure seemed heretical to other artists working with abstraction.
Andrew of Samosata, and some others would not accept it, but declared the word "Theotokos" to be heretical. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
We are in for a seriously scary time, if research is to be deemed heretical and old bones worshipped.
The findings of the inquiry were couched in virulent terms, accusing Graham of being a heretic, falsifier, person of irregular life, blasphemer, and excommunicate.
As might be expected, some people abused this system and reported the nosy neighbor (with the loud goat who brayed at 3 AM) as a heretic, just to try and get rid of them.
Exploring the details of Farmer's life, however, reveals that she is, in a sense, not only the Lost Atheist, but also a feminist, a heretic, a social radical.
While the cults, sects, and small mindedness of the mobs grew, the loss of those with a real higher understanding became larger and larger, as they die and more control by the mobs, brainwashing in heretical ideas takes hold. Think Progress » NSA Whistleblower To Expose More Unlawful Activity: ‘People…Are Going To Be Shocked’
Do you really think that while they're arresting heretics is the best time to be having trade with fortune tellers and soothsayers?
He was called a heretic and a rebel, but one who transformed his rebellion into art.
Saxons were heathens at that time, or at least heretics, and made a positive point with her husband that the bondswoman and girl who were to attend on her person and that of her daughter, should be qualified for the office by being anew admitted into the Christian Church by baptism. Count Robert of Paris
Not only was Newton not a deist; he believed deism heretical and harmful.
In the 1930's, when devout convert philosopher Dietrich von Hildrebrand wrote a book extolling the unitive power of sex in marriage, it was widely regarded as dangerous and potentially heretical.
Denial of this is considered heretical by Catholics and Eastern Orthodox ( and Evangelicals ) alike.
Thereupon I declared that I was a heretic and a barbarian — “Je suis heretique et barbare,” I said, The Gambler
They must go to work and make their own music, -- real music; for in these days unharmonious sounds are almost as much out of place in the worship of God as an uncatholic spirit and an heretical doctrine. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
Christ, the Grand Inquisitor, seated as judge; his familiars standing by ready with their implements of torture to fulfil his bidding; his fellow monks enthroned around him; his sign, the crucifix, towering from hell to heaven in sight of the universe; the whole heretical world, dressed in the sanbenito, helpless before him, awaiting their doom? The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
His heretical views on creation brought him into some disrepute.
In other ages he would have been canonized as a saint or called the beatific doctor; but in Boston he was a heretic and a reformer, who sought to lead men into a faith that is ethical, sincere, and humanitarian. Unitarianism in America
I think these are important questions because under some religious lore this is completely and utterly heretical.
Another Italian heretical group, the Passagians in Lombardy, based their beliefs on a literal reading of the Old Testament and a strict observance of Mosaic law, including the ritual of circumcision. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
As in past battles, the legal changes will presage changes in culture and public opinion where the previously heretical becomes the obvious and the normal.
Not only Gnostics and other heretics, but Christians who considered themselves faithful, held in a measure to the worship of the sun.
In mid-1349, Pope Clement VI issued a papal bull denouncing the flagellants as a heretical movement.
It's worth keeping in mind that the Church venerates as saints at least 2 persons who died as heretics: there are 2 Arian saints in the Roman Martyrology.
Perhaps Huck is even asking the essential question for heretics who believed in the duality of creation.
Such is part of the defence of the high-spirited Joan of Arc, who was taken prisoner by the Duke of Burgundy on the 23d of May 1430 -- sold by him for a large sum to the English, and by them put on her trial as a heretic, idolatress, and magician -- condemned, and finally burned alive, the 30th of May 1431. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
Raising questions about Roe in mainstream feminist groups is considered heretical.
Creationists live in a much stranger and deeply imaginative world than your average heretical joe.
Some are even considered heretical, much like apocryphal books of the Bible.
Only a few years ago, the concept of blood cells transmuting into lung cells would have been no less heretical because it was widely accepted that the human lung had a limited capacity to grow and regenerate.
In these documents the natural divine filiation of Jesus even as man is strongly asserted, and His adoptive filiation , at least in so far as it excludes the natural, is rejected as heretical.
Heretics were burned at the stake.
While most of them are careful to maintain a little patch of agnostic "to be sure" territory, hectoring heretics like PZ Myers get their jollies by stomping all over sacred ground in the hobnailed boots of rationality. Clay Farris Naff: How Science Can Solve the Puzzle of God
His views were considered heretical by many in the convent, but nevertheless he was ordained a Catholic priest in 1572.
It provided Jews with a direct approach to God, a notion regarded as heretical and pantheistic by Orthodox Judaism.
In February 1992, Rabbi Shach, himself an eminent Rabbi, branded the Lubavitcher Rebbe as a heretic, who harboured messianic pretensions.
They were not, according to an older version of history that Johnson appears to accept, merely heretics reacting against an established orthodoxy.
The Bischop of Brechin, [73] having his placeboes and jackmen in the toun, buffatted the Freir, and called him Heretick. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
Not only was Newton not a deist; he believed deism heretical and harmful.
In 1977, the heretical "Dutch Catechism" which denied original sin and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, as well the indissolubility of matrimony, was not condemned as a whole by the Vatican, but only "some portions to be altered". Obama's "Humble Realism"???
Only then, at the very end of the 5th century, did the Bishop of Rome have a king who might be called upon to defend the faith, for the Arians were all heretics in the eyes of Rome (and of Constantinople, for that matter).
He was also an ardent heretic and freethinker, maybe an out-and-out atheist, and a vocal defender of the ideas of Charles Darwin.
While the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, might be God's sworn defender, he wasn't above using the swords of heretics to swell his army and terrify his enemies.
Our views on these issues are not heretical and not unique to us, but are squarely within the pale of orthodoxy.
The heretical movements of the Middle Ages were basically movements of social protest.
It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism. Easter Lemming Liberal News
Hence, while the influence of orthodox Christianity upon the Koran has been slight, apocryphal and heretical Christian legends, on the other hand, are one of the original sources of Koranic faith.
President Obama could learn a lesson from the Donatist heretics in how to handle government officials who were involved in the torture of detainees. Bring Back Donatism! | Heretical Ideas Magazine
The Pelagian doctrine of free will was declared heretical.
Heretics were burnt at the stake .
This is significant and if God meant it the way the modalists and the other heretics meant it, three definite articles would not have separated the three.
On the "Christ our Lord was created by the Father" example, I can also imagine a homilist distinguishing between the Eternal Son and His created human nature in some way that may or may not be heretical, but will certainly be too confusing for a homily. Error, Heresy, & You
He wrote a third antiheretical work which was universal in character, called the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
The heretics will be purged from the land, and the true faith will remain pure. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Our narrator has been arrested for being married to a divorced man, which is heretical.
Erwin had read somewhere that Oregon had a larger percentage of heretical thinkers per capita than any other state. EVERVILLE
It was only decades after his death that some of his heretical philosophies saw the light of day.
Even as a heretical product of the Jesuits, I recall the scriptural caution to "Judge not, lest ye be judged. MAIL CALL
To be sure, it is not formally heretical to allow for the possibility of universal salvation; in a relatively trivial sense, that possibility holds; for its holding is logically compatible with what has been irreformably taught by the Church. Archive 2007-08-01
If the term ‘Christian’ is taken to include heretics, schismatics, and baptized apostates, it would still appear that most are damned.
Having heard their confessions, the inquisitor could impose a penance or punishment, which ranged from wearing yellow crosses to indicate that a witness had been guilty of heretical activities, to being burned alive at the stake.
I would argue that ‘the Christian tradition’ is not so easily identifiable and isolable as an unchanging measure against which any position can be declared ‘orthodox’ or ‘heretical.’
The Hussites, on the other hand, who broke away from the Holy Roman Empire in both political and religious senses, were heretics.
Greek Christian theologian and founder of Arianism , a doctrine that led to his condemnation as a heretic.
Writers and engravers of pornography came out of the demimonde of heretics, freethinkers and libertines who made up the underside of those formative Western developments.
The Church regards spirit mediums and people claiming to speak to the dead as heretical.
The mob's ability to shout down and punish the heretics is present even today.
I followed none of the numerous heretical factions.
The BBC and others have decided that Al Gore and the rest of the Climate Change Cadres are Right and anyone who questions their opinions is heretically Wrong. Al Gore's Little Green Film
Select quotations from Augustine's anti-Donatist writings enabled some medieval canonists to make him look as if he were justifying the stern measures against heretics adopted in the later middle ages.
In southern France, there also arose the heretical group known as the Waldenses, the followers of Peter Waldes, who called themselves the Poor of Lyons. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
St. Gregory of Nyssa, went astray on individual points; the former in regard to the baptism of heretics, the latter in the matter of apocatastasis. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
They appear as often as not in religious contexts and associated with marginal Christian groups, whether ascetics or heretics.
I made the then heretical suggestion that it might be cheaper to design new machines.
I abhor psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest yet more any one who should maintain the contrary. Les Miserables
Yes, the man was incomprehensible, heretical, dangerous; he was uncatholic and unchristian. Cardinal Manning: Part VI
WBC's mission statement through their actions is heretical at best and blasphemous in the worst way. Justices refuse to hear case over protests at soldier funerals
My job was not to persecute people for blasphemous advances of the sciences, or for heretical religious teachings.
'Cathar' (apparently first used in the middle of the twelfth century by a group of heretics from Cologne, or so Eckbert of Schönau wrote in his Sermones contra Catharos of 1163) is, and always has been, deeply misleading and applied in such an indiscriminate way by modern historians as to make it, for all intents and purposes, a useless term. Popular Comments Across MetaFilter
The Summa attributed to Prepositinus echoed Psalm 50: 7 ( "I was conceived in iniquity," cited above) to affirm that little children had iniquity, but it stipulated that the sin was contractum, non actum — that is, inherited rather than committed by the children themselves. 35 The image of the newborn's unclean soul undermined any notion of childhood innocence advocated by neo-Pelagian heretics. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Furthermore, the same kind of surface treatment is to be found in the various draperies scattered on the steps of the temple as a result the heretical abandonment of the cult of the Goddess of Love.
Why should doubt be heretical in that case and yet one's bounden duty in this? GRACE
Are my books perhaps, quoth the innkeeper, heretical or phlegmatical, that you would thus roughly handle them? The Fourth Book. V. Treating of That Which Befel All Don Quixote His Train in the Inn
The threats included external forces — Muslims, heretics, pirates, and southern merchants — which exteriorized blame for the failure and placed it onto distant figures who were bent on destroying or distorting the expedition. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
If the teacher is a leader, he must also be a sentry - a heretic to criticize the fools who would cast his pupils back into the dark ignorance they had just escaped.
Persecuting witches or merely criticizing nonbelievers (as infidels, heretics, pagans, or gentiles) can unite the Faithful.
She laughed out loud, thoroughly entertained by his heretical talk. COLDHEART CANYON
RE: Matt, your word "heretic" is such a great choice because with AGW it truly seems, like most religions, to be those with faith against those without. Freeman Dyson on Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
He highlights a history of such values going back as far as the millennial heretics of the fourteenth century.
In Another Worldy, we witness the outcome of vast jungles of nerves organized into movements that are simultaneously disciplined, mystical, hermetic, erotic and heretical.
But since his day there have been many martyrs, whose only crime was 'harbouring' Christians, or heretics, or recusant priests, or Covenanters. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
Constantius, an Arian and therefore technically a heretic, returned the Empire to a single rule.
I am English, born in Britain, but I am referred to as a heretic, unbeliever, infidel, etc., because I am a Pagan.
To the east was the Afghan Taliban, a regime that espoused a ruthless brand of Sunni Islam and viewed Iran's Shia Muslim leaders as heretics.
Many such documents originated from heretical sects like the Gnostics.
However, Nestorius himself was condemned as a heretic shortly thereafter. Augustine vs. Pelagius Part Four - The Politics of Free Will | Heretical Ideas Magazine
All Bin Laden's rhetoric is but pretext for his malicious anti - humanity and anti - civilization heretic religion.
The answer lies in the provision of a structured Church and in the definition of what constituted heretical belief.
Denial of this is considered heretical by Catholics and Eastern Orthodox ( and Evangelicals ) alike.
The "doctrines" of heretics are also called dogmata, as in Basil, Ep.CCLXI. and Socr., NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
In both cases, the rhetoric of urgency furthered the antiheretical argument. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
a church they call heretical, should _dare_ to talk of our scruples The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
The works of their most respected theologians and thinkers are not only still unavailable in most of Russia's seminaries, but are also viewed by many hierarchs as heretical.
In itself this doctrine was not unorthodox, but Malebranche's claim that the images were formed through God allowing the soul to look into His divine mind suggested, heretically, that the beatific vision was possible prior to death.
When confronted with charges that Teilhard was a pantheistic heretic, however, the papal nuncio in Paris at the time, Angelo Roncalli, pushed the accusations aside.
The Summa attributed to Prepositinus echoed Psalm 50: 7 ( "I was conceived in iniquity," cited above) to affirm that little children had iniquity, but it stipulated that the sin was contractum, non actum — that is, inherited rather than committed by the children themselves. 35 The image of the newborn's unclean soul undermined any notion of childhood innocence advocated by neo-Pelagian heretics. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
So, as a form of protest, the nobility joined the ranks of the heretical movements.
A knight was supposed to protect the weak and defend the Church against heretics of all shades.
Apparently Sarah shall be condemned to the City of Dis for her heretical views.
You'd make a good psychologist, executioner, black widow, arsenic poisoner, heretic queen or commentator.
The commission to Moses, "to extirpate the Canaanitish tribes," has been the universal war-cry of the dominant party in the Church to burn and empale heretics. Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
The Church regards spirit mediums and people claiming to speak to the dead as heretical.
In the preface Platina not only avoids any antagonism towards the Church but even refers with approbation to the punishing of heretics and schismatics by the popes, which is the best proof that Sixtus IV, by his marks of favour, had won Platina for the interests of the Church. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
I made the then heretical suggestion that it might be cheaper to design new machines.
But you're really risking being branded a heretic just at the moment.
Intransigent towards ecstatics, sarcastic towards Catholics, intractable towards heretics, Calvinism participated unwittingly in the disenchantment of the world.
Predictably, those trying to be midwives to these new theologies (note the plural) are being criticized as heretics, unorthodox, disturbers of the peace, etc.
For economics of relative main trend, psychological economics is a heretical economics.
If by the term heretic we are to imply moral guilt, I am not justified in applying it to any Christian, unless his doctrines are positively sinful, or there is something wicked, either in the way of dishonesty or bitterness, in his manner of maintaining them. The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps
Greek Christian theologian and founder of Arianism , a doctrine that led to his condemnation as a heretic.
If the term ‘Christian’ is taken to include heretics, schismatics, and baptized apostates, it would still appear that most are damned.
Pope Clement VIII demanded that Bruno be sentenced as a heretic and the Inquisition passed the death sentence on him.
After the influence of the heretics in Poland had been destroyed, the Society of Jesus resolved to reclaim from the Greek schism the millions of inhabitants of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
That was when people began to rebel against their unfair practises and that was when the Priests began condemning people to death, claiming they were heretics and rebels.
Her belief that a split would be good for the party was regarded as heretical.
In 1208, the year the pope launched a brutal crusade upon the heretics of Albi in the south of France, he placed King John under interdict, and in the following year excommunicated him and his kingdom.

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