heretics

Examples of heretics in the following topics:

• Sect

  • The historical usage of the term "sect" in Christianity has had pejorative connotations, referring to a group or movement with heretical beliefs or practices that deviate from those of groups considered orthodox.
  • Many Sunni religious leaders, including those inspired by Wahhabism and other ideologies have declared Shias to be heretics and apostates.

• Crime and Punishment

  • By contrast, torturous executions were typically public, and woodcuts of English prisoners being hanged, drawn and quartered show large crowds of spectators, as do paintings of Spanish auto-da-fé executions, in which heretics were burned at the stake.

• Discontent with the Roman Catholic Church

  • In the meantime, the faculty had condemned the forty-five articles and added several other theses, deemed heretical, which had originated with Hus.
  • Wycliffe, who died in 1384, was also declared a heretic by the Council of Constance and Wycliffe's corpse was exhumed and burned.

• Innovation and Limitation

  • Because many Christian Europeans of the time viewed such texts as heretical, men like Diego de Landa destroyed many texts in pyres, even while seeking to preserve native histories.

• The Western Schism

  • At the fifteenth session, on June 5, 1409, the Council of Pisa deposed the two pontiffs as schismatical, heretical, perjured, and scandalous.

• Rhode Island

  • In Massachusetts, Governor Winthrop noted her death as the righteous judgment of God against a heretic.

• The Great Schism of 1054

  • By the turn of the millennium, the Eastern and Western Roman Empires had been gradually separating along religious fault lines for centuries, beginning with Emperor Leo III's pioneering of the Byzantine Iconoclasm in 730 CE, in which he declared the worship of religious images to be heretical.

• The Witch Trials

  • While the idea of witchcraft began to mingle with the persecution of heretics even in the 14th century, the beginning of the witch-hunts as a phenomenon in its own right become apparent during the first half of the 15th century in south-eastern France and western Switzerland, in communities of the Western Alps, in what was at the time Burgundy and Savoy.

• Louis XIV's Wars

  • Continuing his mission to isolate and attack the Dutch Republic, which Louis considered to be trading rivals, seditious republicans and Protestant heretics, the French king made another move on the Spanish Netherlands.

• The Crusades

  • A few crusades, such as the Fourth Crusade, were waged within Christendom against groups that were considered heretical and schismatic.