All 15 Uses of
heresy
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
- He shook his head, but stopped short of calling me a heretic.†
heretic = someone with opinions or actions that counter popular belief of what is proper
- He was a famous orthodox Christian historian whose text The Prescription Against Heretics was a forerunner of the Nicene Creed.†
heretics = people with opinions or actions that counter popular belief of what is proper
- Thanks to Shay, my supervising priest thinks I'm a heretic.†
heretic = someone with opinions or actions that counter popular belief of what is proper
- Do you think you're a heretic?†
- "Does any heretic?" he said.†
- Through a series of editorial decisions, they were excluded— and considered heresy by the early Christian church.†
heresy = opinions or actions most people consider immoral
- He's a heretic.†
heretic = someone with opinions or actions that counter popular belief of what is proper
- Well, in spite of how Maggie introduced you, you don't seem like a heretic to me.†
- I'm sure you already know that heresy comes from the Greek word for choice.†
heresy = opinions or actions most people consider immoral
- Namely, we learned that they were heresy.†
- Anyone who'd had limited religious instruction or a thorough college education knew about the Catholic Church and its role in politics and history—not to mention the heresies that had been squelched over the centuries.†
- It was easy to see why, in seminary, this had been taught as heresy: the basis of Christianity was that there was only one God, and He was so different from man that the only way to reach Him was through Jesus.†
- The biggest heresies are the ones that scare the Church to death.†
- What didn't fit this equation became heretical—if you weren't worshipping the right way, you were out.†
*heretical = counter to popular belief of what is proper
- They called their gospels heresy, and the Nag Hammadi texts were hidden for two thousand years.†
heresy = opinions or actions most people consider immoral