Sentence examples for as a heresy from inspiring English sources

From that point on, semi-Pelagianism was recognized as a heresy in the Roman Catholic church.

Some Saudi scholars brand Shi'ism as a heresy "worse than Christianity or Judaism".

The work, it says, slanders the Jewish people, depicts Islam as a heresy and is homophobic.

It quickly became customary to speak of simony as a heresy, and some reformers saw its influence as especially pernicious.

He had been arrested on charges of treason, laid by Jews who opposed the nascent movement of Hasidism (a mystical variety of Orthodox Judaism) as a heresy.

Kobe Bryant recently suggested that this lot would beat the 1992 bunch, a comment that was treated by some as a heresy.

Thus ordinary Christians (or a Pope arguing as a theologian and not purporting to exercise papal authority) can argue for a heresy as long as they are open to evidence and make no attempt to impose their belief on others, whereas a Pope who tries to impose a heresy immediately ceases to be Pope and loses all authority.

Howard-Brook says that Western Christianity has "declared Jesus' explicit call for God's kingdom on earth as in heaven a heresy, replacing it with a thin hope for individual souls after death.

In Tiepolo's campily exaggerated chalk, pen and wash drawing, "Saints Fidelis of Signaringen and Joseph of Leonessa Banish Heresy," one saint prays while the other gestures "Out!" as a fallen Heresy lies prostrate at his feet.

Denis de Rougemont's analysis of romantic love as a Catholic heresy could scarcely be better illustrated.

Even the more accommodating Presbyterians have condemned Mormonism as a polytheistic heresy.