How To Use Heretical In A Sentence

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.
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.
He had an extensive collection of heretical materials, and was housing a subversive.

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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.
I made brief mention recently of the heretical view that the HIV virus does not cause AIDS.
Contempt and derision were now poured not upon the heretical supporters of change, but upon their orthodox opponents.
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
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
It seems almost heretical to question the merit and durability of the U.S. alliance with South Korea.
Even the antipopes were rarely heretical.
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
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
Don't indiscriminately consider nationalism to be heretical.
The Church regards spirit mediums and people claiming to speak to the dead as heretical. GRACE
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.
It was once dismissed as the heretical idea of green campaigners.
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.
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’
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.
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.
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.
In mid-1349, Pope Clement VI issued a papal bull denouncing the flagellants as a heretical movement.
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.
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.
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"???
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.
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.
The Pelagian doctrine of free will was declared heretical.
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
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
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 Church regards spirit mediums and people claiming to speak to the dead as heretical.
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
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
I made the then heretical suggestion that it might be cheaper to design new machines.
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.
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
She laughed out loud, thoroughly entertained by his heretical talk. COLDHEART CANYON
In Another Worldy, we witness the outcome of vast jungles of nerves organized into movements that are simultaneously disciplined, mystical, hermetic, erotic and heretical.
Many such documents originated from heretical sects like the Gnostics.
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.
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.
So, as a form of protest, the nobility joined the ranks of the heretical movements.
Apparently Sarah shall be condemned to the City of Dis for her heretical views.
The Church regards spirit mediums and people claiming to speak to the dead as heretical.
I made the then heretical suggestion that it might be cheaper to design new machines.
For economics of relative main trend, psychological economics is a heretical economics.
Her belief that a split would be good for the party was regarded as heretical.
Still, the Emerging Church movement is treading on ground that traditionalists call unorthodox, if not heretical. Young Evangelicals Find Faith In Emerging Church Movement
He serves it in a soup plate, surrounded by a modest quantity of a rich, winey reduction and heretical though that may be, that improved it.
The notions of praying somebody out of hell and universalism / apocatastasis are heretical because they violate free will. A conservative blog for peace
The Church regards spirit mediums and people claiming to speak to the dead as heretical. GRACE
Indeed, the formal Catholic procedures for beatifying and canonizing saints are intended, inter alia, to guard against superstition, miraclemongering, and popular enthusiasms of a possibly heretical nature.
That would be the essential heretical statement, if there were one in this document.
So as in this part of knowledge, touching divine philosophy, I am so far from noting any deficience, as I rather note an excess; whereunto I have digressed because of the extreme prejudice which both religion and philosophy hath received and may receive by being commixed together; as that which undoubtedly will make an heretical religion, and an imaginary and fabulous philosophy. The Advancement of Learning
The Elder Architect, Olaf Harsha, who was guided by a heartfelt (and heretical ) ambition to directly face THE BROKEN GOD
Jacobs and Haas, Dr. Seiss states: "That there have been teachings and beliefs put forth, and usually called chiliasm, which are heretical and subversive of the true Gospel, there can be no question. American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)
* Note: A singular "allegoric" explanation of this strange fact has recently been broached: it is connected with the charge of idolatry and Eastern heretical opinions subsequently made against the Templars. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
Isn't this a heretical idea for those of us inclined toward deep reverence for the wild?
I made the then heretical suggestion that it might be cheaper to design new machines.
How, you ask, did such a heretical freak get a recording contract?
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.
Her belief that a split would be good for the party was regarded as heretical.
In 1661, Louis declared that five fundamental beliefs of the Jansenists were heretical.
But he says that to walk in that procession, to take part in that act of so-called recantation and reconciliation, would be in itself as a confession that those things which he had held and taught were heretical. For the Faith
There are very important lessons for us to learn from the heretical statements of this church leader.
Yet I have never seen anyone committed to community-building undermine community development simply by the expression of heretical ideas. THE DIFFERENT DRUM
That is to say, Milton at this time had notions that would have been deemed as heretical by the Calvinist theology of the ascendant Presbyterian Puritans.
They mentioned that under some religious lore, such an act was considered heretical.
The document details that "after the formal abjuration, which is compelling for all those who were even only suspected of heretical crimes, the leading members of the Templar Order are reinstated in the Catholic Communion and readmitted to receive the sacraments. Vatican Parchment Detailing 14th Century Trial Of Templars Discredits Da Vinci Code
His counterpart, James Ussher, Protestant archbishop of Armagh from 1625, returned the compliment, drawing up with his fellow bishops in 1626 an uncompromising attack upon the Roman Catholic church declaring it to be superstitious, idolatrous, erroneous, heretical and apostatical.
Eternal economic subordinationism is heretical, just as the more frequently espoused eternal ontological subordinationism is, despite the tragic fact that some patriarchalists (like Bruce Ware, not Bill) now espouse the former. P. Andrew’s Blog
In other words, both Luther, and those partisans of the SSPX who have defended the heretical proposition that Authority and Truth have separated at some historical point in the history of the Catholic Church, have alike shown themselves to have denied the supernatural Dogma of our Faith that the Catholic Church is indefectible. Modern world: a desert of God
The Church regards spirit mediums and people claiming to speak to the dead as heretical.
Although Cockburn has impeccable environmentalist credentials - he's eager to save the redwoods - he was anathematized as ‘seriously warped ‘for holding such heretical notions.’
Indeed, the formal Catholic procedures for beatifying and canonizing saints are intended, inter alia, to guard against superstition, miracle - mongering, and popular enthusiasms of a possibly heretical nature.
In that respect – in taking seriously, even if confusedly or imperfectly, heretical notions like design – I think the book does very well for itself. Blast From the Past
So as in this part of knowledge, touching divine philosophy, I am so far from noting any deficience, as I rather note an excess; whereunto I have digressed because of the extreme prejudice which both religion and philosophy hath received and may receive by being commixed together; as that which undoubtedly will make an heretical religion, and an imaginary and fabulous philosophy. The Advancement of Learning
We either have the formal teaching of doctrinal error, or else we have the fracture of the Church into the heretical "conciliar" Church with its Magisterium the one to which the Pope and his bishops and almost all Catholic faithful belong, and the "real" Church, a small remnant institutionally separate from the Catholic Church's Magisterium, with its own Magisterium. Modern world: a desert of God
They are esotericists and are considered heretical by the Khomeinists.
The historical usage of the term sect in Christendom has had pejorative connotations, referring to a group or movement with heretical beliefs or practices that deviate from those of groups considered orthodox. Mah butt… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Refusing to recant his doctrines as heretical, he was condemned to be burnt at the stake at Konstanz.
So here you have Scobak, an Orthodox rabbi who heads education for the world's most respected Jewish anti-missionary group, agreeing with my thesis which Rabbi Schochet, without a single source, calls heretical. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: What Is Motivating The Global Ban On 'Kosher Jesus'?
In November of that year the newly appointed Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher, and his suffragan bishops issued a statement declaring that the ‘religion of papists is superstitious and idolatrous erroneous and heretical.’
The second idea, which is much less heretical in its assumptions, concerns the liturgical role of the scripture.
Song of Roland was written after this speech, for before this Turpin's militant theology would likely have been considered heretical.
The Church regards spirit mediums and people claiming to speak to the dead as heretical.
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.
The Gospel of Judas can be dated even more narrowly, since a version of it figures in the writing of Bishop Irenaeus of Lyons, who composed the first major surviving "heresiology," or account of heretical theologies and groups, around 180 CE. The Case for Judas, Continued
Several religious groups deemed the show heretical.
If you want to hear something heretical in the digital age, I often still use an old analog cassette recorder, the venerable Sony TC-D5M It runs on D-Cells and is not subject to digital gremlins.
In the language of the creeds and professions of faith this return to life is called resurrection of the body (resurrectio carnis, resurrectio mortuoram, anastasis ton nekron) for a double reason: first, since the soul cannot die, it cannot be said to return to life; second the heretical contention of Hymeneus and Philitus that the Scriptures denote by resurrection not the return to life of the body, but the rising of the soul from the death of sin to the life of grace, must be excluded. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Forcing markets to do what is generally in the public interest is heretical, right?
The US and UK governments regard mentioning it as disloyal or heretical.
Let's quickly dismiss the heretical view that the elections are about local and European issues.
I do not think there is anything sinful or heretical about such beliefs.
I made the then heretical suggestion that it might be cheaper to design new machines.
Why did my present critics keep silent then about my heretical slogan of permanent revolution?
Propagation of heretical beliefs is a crime.
MARTIN: What do you say to those who argue that this kind of discussion is, I'm not going to use the word heretical, because I think that has its own sort of theological meaning, but I mean it's cherry picking. Women Faith Leaders Struggle To Make It To The Top
As the cardinals of the Catholic Church gather today for their papal conclave, it is not at all heretical to consider the challenges facing their organization in business terms.
If I felt I were heretical, I wouldn't call myself a Christian.
It soars with a sonic rage and washes over the audience like psalms from a heretical hymnal.

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