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Sentence Examples It is the Romantic-humanist heresy which holds that we should nurture our egos rather than abnegate them. He had been called before this August gathering to answer charges of heresy, which could threaten his very life. In order to avoid charges of heresy, Nostradamus wrote in a deliberately vague and obscure manner. But to dismiss them without scientific inquiry would be to dogmatise science, and label as heresy any challenge thrown at it. No stranger to publicity, Wilson was most gratified by the media frenzy that greeted this apparent heresy. Is it heresy to suggest that an occasional revival of his long-discredited but more glittery orchestration might not be such a crime? He was in early life a Dominican friar, but broke from his order and left Italy to avoid prosecution for heresy. Their world is founded on principles and reasons so different from you, it is heresy you are guilty of, and you will pay. Religious heresy denunciations do not appear often, outside of certain insular ultra-orthodox circles. Arguably, his is the only conception of faith that avoids the heresy of Pelagianism. Godly bishops intervened and suppressed the Pelagian heresy in late fifth-century Britain. He reacts against the heresy of deism, the belief that God wound up the universe in the beginning but lets it run without intervention. It has been a sign of heresy to reject or ignore any part or portion of Holy Writ. In 1593 he was summoned to appear before the Privy Council, accused of heresy, and released on bail while evidence was gathered against him. The hounding out of heresy, whether religious or political, is always a symptom of instability in the state. That we can still think of wringing out a song from all this is worse than heresy, blasphemy, sacrilege. In 2000 it was considered economic heresy to contemplate a breach of the stability pact. I know that's heresy, but there is a treacly quality to so much of the talk about King and his dream that it is like an overdose of candy. To say, in our culture, that I have a good rhythm and balance in my life with work and activities is almost heresy. To say that the value of gold was an exception would be considered heresy by him. Show More Sentences Some of you have noticed that I've just committed heresy and contradicted doctrine. The trials of Jesus echoed the criminal procedures of English heresy trials. That rejection soon led to the Monophysite heresy, which lives on to this day in the Coptic and Ethiopian churches. Suppression of the movement in Bulgaria intensified after a 1211 synod condemned the heresy. Arguably, the avoidance of passive secularism led to my own eventual entanglement and heresy trials. Newman has produced an understanding of history where the struggle between orthodoxy and heresy results in the eventual defeat of false belief. This important knowledge will help to protect us against subtle heresy and fashionable novelties. It is exactly in such a situation that any suggestion to consider the game sportively rather than sentimentally becomes a heresy. To the alchemist there was no such thing as heresy, while to the Church there was no such thing as an unheretical alchemist. In New Zealand, these ideas would be considered heresy, a return to Muldoonism. Naturally, some weenies in the online feedback section on the footer of the page are upset by Milne's heresy. I am not sure whether the quality of thinking here rises to the level of the modalist heresy. History tells us that these knights were wiped out in 1307, when they were arrested to a man on a charge of heresy and put to the sword. Indeed, they are so against the conventional wisdom that they might be termed heresy. You know, back in the 1400s, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for heresy. Others did not succeed in staying out of harm's way, like Marguerite Porete, who was burned at the stake for heresy. In 1600 after a seven-year trial for heresy he was burned at the stake at Campo de Fiori in Rome for refusing to recant. I can only assume the Taswegians have gotten away with this gross act of economic heresy because the eyes of economists are on larger markets. Myrc and others viewed the Augustinian doctrine of salvation by grace as a deception of the devil and a heresy. In the meantime, the main heresy condemned at the council, Arianism, became ascendant and almost triumphed over orthodoxy. Show More Sentences A third wave of Arian studies has resulted in constructive attempts to understand heresy. First, the Arian heresy overextends God's unity by referring to diversity and difference in God rather than distinction. The Arians of the Fourth Century helped to establish the historiographic attitude towards heresy in British Arian scholarship. The council boldly claimed this as the faith of the Church and named Arianism as a heresy and Arians as heretics. The heresy and apostasy of the MP, like all apostatical movements in history, developed and deepened over time. When lack of assent begins to appear, it may not indicate heresy or apostasy, but herald dramatic development. He imposed quotas on imported Japanese cars and saved Detroit, though he was denounced for apostasy and heresy. It is very difficult to find discussion of heresy or apostasy or even of dissent in Asian thought and literature. On the contrary, they clearly conflict on issues of intra-group dissent such as proselytization, apostasy, heresy, and mandatory education. He summoned Luther to Rome to answer charges of heresy and rebelling against church authority. Our repeated failure to reprove and adequately rebuke heresy calls into serious question our theological system. Hooper and other prominent Protestants were held in custody until the heresy laws could be re-enacted. He undertook his mission of preaching against the heresy with relish but was soon forced to admit failure. 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. A person close to the family told the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle that he was initially arrested for heresy. A few hundred years later, Belgian cartographer Gerard Mercator was charged with heresy. Many who did believe were influenced by the heresy of Jansenism, which taught that human nature is depraved and that Jesus died to save only a chosen few. When the Albigensian heresy was abroad in medieval France and Italy there was an actual theological difference based on rebellion against or acceptance of the material world. When the anticlericalism of certain courtiers turned to heresy the following year, Henry V did not hesitate to condemn even his old friend, Sir John Oldcastle. Despite his obvious personal interest in the revolution of 1399, he was also a vigorous defender of the English church from heresy and anticlerical threats. Show More Sentences It's what you'd call the Arian heresy that we have to deal with. On the other hand, the Sabellian heresy loses a proper conception of distinction among the persons by speaking of God as singular, alone, solitary, and the like. It is heresy, sacrilege, a pockmark upon the face of our National Pastime! He committed Republican heresy by saying revenue needs to be part of any deficit solution. Some refused to change and they were burned at the stake for heresy. John Adams was a Unitarian, which Trinitarians abhorred as heresy. One can almost imagine Dan Maskell birling in his grave at this heresy. While this may not appear to be a problem to us, the separation of Christ's manhood from his deity is actually a grave heresy called Nestorianism. 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. In March 1638, after a heresy trial, the clergy excommunicated her. But why does it have to be political heresy to go the whole hog? Even if this isn't heresy, it's bad news for women's claims for equality. Evil, mysterious, hostile to health and goodness, demons were once viewed as inferior gods-the personification of the powers behind human sickness, idolatry, and heresy. But six years later he was arrested again, this time under charges of impenitent heresy, and was burnt at the stake in 1596, at the age of thirty. Each walked a fine line between the threat of inquisitional prosecution for heresy and prosecution by secular authorities in land or other disputes. Newton and Locke, on the other hand, leant towards the anti-Trinitarian heresy of Arius of Alexandria that denied Christ and God were consubstantial. 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. He was tried for heresy by the Free Church of Scotland and defrocked. Ten years after his consecration he was delated for heresy by an ecclesiastical court, and subsequently excommunicated from the Anglican Church altogether. The zealots got the upper hand and science was denounced as heresy. Show More Sentences Most people would notice a correlation like that, just in terms of cause, effect, the apparent proximity of events, etc., but not our eagle-eyed extirpator of heresy. Accusations of witchcraft were often combined with other charges of heresy against such groups as the Cathars and Waldensians. The study of heresy requires an understanding of the development of orthodoxy and the role of creeds in the definition of orthodox beliefs. Not only was the Church highly aggressive in seeking out heresy and suppressing it, but there was a shortage of Protestant leadership. The Marian Persecutions of Protestants ensued and 283 Protestants were burnt at the stake for heresy. Andrews by Cardinal Beaton for heresy, did nothing to stem the growth of these ideas. In 1324, Louis the Bavarian sided with the Spirituals and accused the pope of heresy. Innocent probably saw in them a possible answer to his desire for an orthodox preaching force to counter heresy. Religiously, he was orthodox, and particularly towards the end of his reign he became a strong opponent of the Lollard heresy. A bishop who goes in schism or is cast out of office due to heresy does not take his Apostolic Succession with him as a private possession. The Church, however, ruled that these new prophecies were not authoritative, and condemned Montanism as a heresy. Nevertheless, the civil magistrate has a duty to preserve church unity, suppress heresy, and prevent corruption and abuse within the church. The Theatines undertook checking the spread of heresy and contributed to a regeneration of the clergy. At the end of his life he endured a rare Swedish heresy inquiry by the Swedish Lutheran Consistory. In later years, the Church instituted the Inquisition, an official body charged with the suppression of heresy. 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? He also shows More loathing Protestantism, burning both Martin Luther's books and English Protestants who have been convicted of heresy. But he believed they fell into heresy by supporting quietism, so he decided to form his own followers into a separate society. He was denounced by Calvin and burned at the stake for heresy by the city council. First, the Dominican theologian Sylvester Mazzolini drafted a heresy case against Luther, whom Leo then summoned to Rome. Show More Sentences Cromwell was charged not only with treason but with being a sacramentary, a radical form of heresy associated with witchcraft. He had the theses checked for heresy and in December 1517 forwarded them to Rome. For example, instead of executing Archbishop Cranmer for treason for supporting Queen Jane, she had him tried for heresy and burned at a stake. Had he published such a work in Louvain he would again be laying himself open to charges of heresy. In the end, the Synod of Dort condemned the Remonstrants for heresy and excommunicated them from the national Public Church. After the recall of Granvelle, Orange persuaded Margaret and the Council to ask for a moderation of the placards against heresy. Following the Revolt of the Netherlands in 1568, Philip waged a campaign against Dutch heresy and secession. A letter by Boniface charging Aldebert and Clement with heresy is preserved in the records of the Roman Council of 745 that condemned the two. The Ecumenical First Council of Nicaea of 325 deemed Arianism to be a heresy. In 1550, the death penalty was introduced for all cases of unrepentant heresy. He even ventures to hope that such good people may be saved, notwithstanding their heresy. In return the church required support for religious orthodoxy against heresy. The 'art or mystery of printing' could spread sedition and heresy more perturbingly than word of mouth. The heresy, notwithstanding the severe measures taken against it, continued to spread in Gaul as well as in Hispania. He had recently prosecuted the execution of the scholar Michael Servetus for heresy. The Neustrian Council of Soissons in 744, the third synod under Boniface's direction, discussed the heresy of Aldebert. This did not necessarily link lodges to the irreligious, but neither did this exclude them from the occasional heresy. Wishart was a reformer who had fled Scotland in 1538 to escape punishment for heresy. People feel very strongly about the heresy of decaff in New York, although surely it insults the point of retail even more. As a result, in 1536 the first provincial church council called since 1470 failed to achieve major reforms or a united front against heresy. Show More Sentences The first argument equates some forms of dualism with the heresy of Gnosticism. A historical precedent for the death of God is the old Patripassian heresy, the idea that the Father emptied himself into the Son. It was also in this bull that Pope John officially declared witchcraft to be heresy, and thus it could be tried under the Inquisition. The donatist heresy claimed that sacraments were impaired if the person performing them was heretical or unorthodox. It was necessary in the 1750s for his friends to avert a trial against him on the charge of heresy. Moore in his latest book, The War on Heresy, argues persuasively that heresy itself was not an epiphenomenon of the High and Late Middle Ages. Might men be their own judges, there would be no heresy in the world, no misworship. In 708, some monks at Hexham accused Bede of having committed heresy in his work De Temporibus. Fanboy heresy, perhaps, but the key to the film's supersmart, supercool triumph. For example, accusations of heresy have been levelled against a group of believers when their beliefs challenged, or were seen to challenge, Church authority. Physical evidence suggesting Copernicus's theory regarding the Earth's motion was literally true promoted the apparent heresy against the religious thought of the time. DuBois says that under the Tokugawa shogunate, Buddhist monasteries acted as loyal agents of the state and served as the first line of defense against the rise of heresy. Thus the disputes on the heresy of Franciscans lead Ockham and others to formulate some fundamentals of economic theory and the theory of ownership. His court was famous for its scholars and he was often accused of heresy. Attacks on heresy also appear throughout his hagiographies, and Arianism is taken to be the common face of heresy across Europe, exposed to great ridicule. A gnostic heresy, which may have been troubling the Colossian church, held that the pleroma was the whole body of heavenly powers and emanations that flow from God. Due to his innovations in computing the age of the world, he was accused of heresy at the table of Bishop Wilfrid, his chronology being contrary to accepted calculations. Orosius had a confrontation with the Archbishop of Jerusalem, John II at the synod, in which Orosius was accused of heresy in front of the entire conclave. It is generally believed that these charges were levied The Franciscan Minister General, Michael of Cesena, had been summoned to Avignon, to answer charges of heresy. His letters to Calvin were presented as evidence of heresy, but he denied having written them, and later said he was not sure it was his handwriting. Show More Sentences Charges of treason and heresy were commonly used to quash dissent, and those accused were often executed without a formal trial, by means of bills of attainder. But of course, heresy and nonbelief are hardly comparable crimes. For Erasmus's anticoercive heresy was about baptism, not about the state. It has also been associated with the Anglican willingness to tolerate and comprehend opposing viewpoints instead of imposing tests of orthodoxy or resorting to heresy trials. He was excommunicated and burned at the stake in Constance, Bishopric of Constance in 1415 by secular authorities for unrepentant and persistent heresy. Ambrose from drawing an explicit analogy between Abram's miraculous victory over four kings and the Nicaean council's similar victory over a dangerous heresy. The effect of heresy is, like the plague, infectious and disseminative. The new humanist learning had been hitherto looked on with suspicion in Rome, a possible source of schism and heresy from an unhealthy interest in paganism. He defended himself against charges of inciting unrest and heresy. In 1691, the Jesuits accused him of favouring the Jansenist heresy. If she had answered yes, then she would have been charged with heresy. In 1322 the king of France suppressed the Knights Templar, ostensibly for sodomy, magic and heresy, but probably for financial and political reasons. At the same time, he examined the actual state of the law of heresy. Augustine and Bellarmine defended the Church against heresy. Examples from Classical Literature The reviser, Maximus, was condemned by a council, and confined on a charge of heresy in a distant monastery. As in the case of Cerinthus, their heresy had nothing necessarily to do with chiliasm. Recent expositors have sufficiently proved that there was a Judaic element in the Colossian heresy. If two or three had proven any point that by their law was holden heresy, the delated person was a heretic. Those who abjured as slightly suspected of heresy, wore the scapulary of yellow stuff without the cross. Neither Constantine nor Constantius had succeeded in stifling the Donatist heresy. The Donatist heresy with its deplorable results arose on the question of the eligibility of an individual bishop. He then and there determined to devote his life to the extirpation of heresy. The gravamen of the heresy seems to have been the suggestion that there were men not of the progeny of Adam. As soon as a man was arrested for heresy, his property was sequestrated and inventoried. They babbled of toleration, as if any heresy were to be endured, if only it were believed. As Eck could not maintain his position he accused Luther of Hussite heresy. Slice off at a blow the head of this beast of rebellion, this hydra of heresy. In his first book he refutes the opinion of the sphericity of the earth, which he regarded as a heresy. The writers all treat this as impenitence, requiring relaxation in cases of formal heresy. One of these illustrates the expiring episcopal jurisdiction over heresy and its supplantation by the Inquisition. But a more serious consequence is latently contained in it, and nothing else than the Nestorian heresy, viz. I will vote, then, against your licensure, if you have fallen into this heresy of the land of your nativity. He marched against Bagdad, and had sworn to root the heresy of Mahound from the earth. From this it would seem that heresy and unorthodoxy had already made its appearance in the diocese. Show More Sentences He answered that I was as yet unteachable, being puffed up with the novelty of that heresy. Scarcely was the Pelagian controversy disposed of when a new heresy appeared. Why should the biographer thus indicate that the Pelagian heresy was specially rife among great and wealthy and popular people? And as if one heresy were not enough, pelagianism was spreading with the connivance of the Bishops in the territory of Picenum. But Supermanism is heresy, and it rapidly spread over the world, most perniciously influencing all intellectual life. Without being a qualificator of heresy myself, I can tell that you smell of the fire. The immediate purpose of their Order was resistance to the albigensian heresy. The albigensian wars were the most successful attempt to extirpate heresy known in history. From this it is clear that Hostegesis and those who thought with him were infected with the anthropomorphite heresy. But the heresy was as incoherent and as credulous as the antithetic orthodoxy. To add to the troubles of the Balkans, the Bogomil heresy appeared, dividing further the strength of the Bulgarian nation. I observed the trial of a zealot who had been burned for heresy. Egypt and Syria were torn to pieces by the Eutychean heresy. This was close to heresy, according to the captain's opinion. Not to realise that, is the heresy of quietism, of many mystics. Leo was disturbed throughout his pontificate by heresy and schism. Gorlaeus's arrival at Leiden to study theology came just as the uproar over Conrad Vorstius and the Arminian heresy was beginning. During all that time the Arian heresy had no root in the West. Comparing any mortal with Daniels would be heresy, wouldn't it? A manifest heresy, but not new, nor unamiable, nor inexplicable. Show More Sentences The catafalque bore a notice to the effect that he had abjured heresy. The Schii heresy was extinguished, once for all, in the Ottoman Empire. We are reminded that we are in the neighbourhood of the Colossian heresy. There are three modern applications of the Colossian heresy. The history of medival heresy takes us as far as the conciliar movement. Grace of congruity is simply a variety of the old heresy of human merit. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. Everything was done to subserve the faith and suppress heresy. Quick work was to be made of schism, heresy, and rebellion in France. To deny that is the root of what is called the Pelagian heresy. But the measures by which it was intended to purge the land of heresy, though more than sufficiently vigorous, were entirely unsuccessful. Knowing from any thing but feeling and the innate evidence of our sympathies, seems to me something like heresy in friendship. But Monophyitism is an offspring of a much earlier heresy, Gnosticism otherwise known as Dualism or Manichaeism. Omnia subito is not its device, but that of the gnostic heresy. The Gallicans insisted that it did, but since the doctrine of papal infallibility was not then a dogma of faith, they could not be accused of heresy. Could it be possible that the strict sense of justice which dominates the men of Mars had caused them to overlook the great good that had come out of my heresy? Find more words! 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What is the opposite of heresy? Words that rhyme with heresy What is the plural of heresy? What is the adverb for heresy? What is the adjective for heresy? What is the noun for heresy? Translations for heresy Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words heresiography heresies heresiarch Heres here's heres heretic heretical heretically heretics hereto heretofore 6-letter Words Starting With h he her here heres