Posts tagged "heresy"
Sacrilege: an excerpt from Austin Dacey’s The Future of Blasphemy
We do not know what the first blasphemer said. We do know that he was a stranger who came among the Israelites.
What Would Jesus Do About Unitarian Heresy?
01 March 2006 England’s Chester Cathedral has made waves with its recent refusal to let a Unitarian congregation hold a service in the Cathedral — as the Unitarian Church has for the past three years — declaring Unitarianism a “heretical” religion incompatible with the Church of England-run Cathedral. The denunciation came after the evangelical Bishop...
A Heretic’s Zoology
Everyone’s a blasphemer these days, including Rabbi Nosson Slifkin, an ultra-Orthodox Israeli scholar and Talmudic zoologist who has written nine books attempting to reconcile Jewish Scripture with natural science. Slifkin, The New York Times reports, isn’t trying to debunk much, but has expressed some calm skepticism about certain stories in the Torah, the Talmud, and other sacred...
