Sentence examples for anathema against from inspiring English sources

Hasidism made little headway in Lithuania, where the traditional rabbinic class, under the leadership of Elijah ben Solomon, was able to stave off its influence by issuing a ban of excommunication (ḥerem, "anathema") against the new movement.

A fatwa, or anathema against the US, which was issued under the signature of bin Laden and several radical Muslim clerics on 23 February 1998, stated that it was the 'individual duty for every Muslim who can do it to kill the Americans and their allies - civilian and military - in any country in which it is possible to do it'.

From his Villa Certosa in Sardinia, a world-famous location for the erotic parties of the old minister, this past week he has launched an "anathema" against the TV programs of four brave journalists that are broadcast on Rai (Italian Public TV) Channel 3.

Among Damasus' literary remains are 24 anathemas against various 4th-century heresies.

About a century after his death, his anti-anathemas against Cyril of Alexandria were rejected at the second general Council of Constantinople in 553.

The remains of his writings include his Monophysite tracts and anathemas against orthodox Christological doctrine (on the nature and person of Christ), preserved in the Thesaurus of Orthodoxy, by the 12th-century Byzantine historian Nicetas Choniates.

There the conciliar bishops acknowledged his orthodoxy on condition that he pronounce the condemnations (anathemas) against Nestorius, first devised by Cyril of Alexandria in early 431, in effect repudiating his own anti-anathemas by which he countercharged Cyril with teaching the absence of a human intellect in Christ (Apollinarianism).

The offending Greek divine delivered an "anathema" in March against the Pope, Protestants, Jews, Muslims and those who seek greater dialogue among the world's religions.

An anathema was accordingly issued against him by the Schmalkald League, a defensive organization of Protestant princes; his books were prohibited in Protestant territories; and he became a religious fugitive.

But although he is a hero in some quarters, his work is anathema to many who lobby against electronic snooping.

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