The pope went on to imply that the marriage between faith and reason, mediated through Greek philosophy, was an essential feature of Christianity; it was a mistake to think, as some modern theologians did, that Christianity could be stripped of its Hellenic accretions and reduced to an authentic core.
Her attempt to extend the time suspected terrorists may be held without charge was opposed with admirable ferocity by some historically minded MPs and campaigners; but polls suggest that most ordinary Britons were unfussed, as they have been by other accretions of state power.
Clinging to the biblical word alone, Karaites regard skullcaps, phylacteries (little leather boxes containing Torah scrolls), matrilineal descent and non-biblical festivals, such as the Festival of Lights, as pagan accretions.
This difference fuels the zeal of violent Sunni groups like Islamic State who have destroyed Shia shrines and images, claiming in doing so to be purifying their religion of idolatrous accretions.
Until then, better to reign in the desert than to serve in a compromised, commodified and philistine culture, to wait for the rains which, hard and cruel, will wash away the accretions of ordure and leave the rocks of the faith uncovered once more.
That is a polite way of saying that the service is slow to shake off accretions that have long stopped being useful.
Partly inspired by Saudi Arabia's strict Wahhabism, Egypt's Salafists seek to purge the faith of modern accretions and impose literal interpretations of dogma.Though only a few months old, and despite doubts that it could unite an array of often squabbling Salafist factions, Nour won 24% of the party-list vote and 21% of the seats.
A 4th-century account reports his death by crucifixion, and late medieval accretions describe the cross as X-shaped.
Because of the later accretions of continental crust to the coastal margin, those belts were shifted more than 250 miles (400 km) westward and today form prominent outcrops in northern Patagonia, the western Pampean Sierras, the Cordillera Oriental of Bolivia and northern Argentina, and the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia and Venezuela.
The root accumulated several accretions, the grammatical meaning of which got obscured within Proto-Dravidian itself.
Bird-and-flower paintings were created and queried for insights into spiritual meaning, and gradually the landscape painting offered accretions of symbolic meaning indicative of internal, spiritual journeys.
