Sentence examples for early sects from inspiring English sources

Some trace the origins further back to the early sects of the Second Temple period, like the Sadducees.

Though the beginnings of Mahayana are to be found in the Mahasangikas and many of their early sects, Nagarjuna gave it a philosophical basis.

Whether there were ever snakes in Ireland is a matter of debate among biologists; Mr. Bergin points out that the symbol of an earlier sect, the Gnostics, included a serpent.

The coefficients of the lagged current account balance confirm the significance of including this variable in all specifications, and the effect is quite similar, which means it has persistency as described earlier (Sect. 5.2).

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The publication of the gospel gives Faber the chance to satirize a number of sitting ducks (book tours, fundamentalists, Amazon reviews), plus some less likely targets (anti-Semitism, disputes among early Christian sects).

Some argue that this view of Christ is similar to the beliefs of early Christian sects.

Among early Christian sects were the followers of the Docetic view, whereby the crucified Jesus was an image, a phantom or perhaps even a replacement.

One of the early Christian sects, the Messalians, even went so far as to teach that each human soul was inhabited by a personal demon -- after all, if one believes in a specially assigned "guardian angel," why not a specially assigned tempter as well?

The Hasideans may also have had a doctrinal influence on the Essenes, an early Jewish sect that flourished in Palestine.

There is a risk, he said, of succumbing to Donatism, a reference to an early Christian sect that insisted rigorously on moral purity.