Word: hereticism
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Boorman set himself a task only slightly less daunting than the search for the Holy Grail: to tell, in 140 minutes, the epic of Arthur, Guenevere and the Knights of the Round Table. He has a millennium of tough acts to follow: Malory and Tennyson and Tolkien, Wagner and Lerner...
Despite all of the objections that have been raised against him, Kung has remained a staunch defender of Christianity. The Church, however, does not think much of his approach. The Vatican's Holy Office has declared Kung a heretic and has forbidden him from teaching Catholic theology, ostensibly for his...
ABC's East of Eden is situated somewhat west of Dallas and north of Flamingo Road. Richard Shapiro's adaptation is terribly tasteful and tastefully terrible; it reiterates themes ad nauseam, while denying the characters any emotional room in which to maneuver. Director Harvey Hart has allowed his...
In two pre-Christmas shots heard round the theological world, the Vatican in 1979 summoned Father Edward Schillebeeckx from The Netherlands for questioning as a possible heretic and then declared that West Germany's Father Hans Küng had no license to practice as a "Catholic" theologian. Since...
Anthropological dogma holds that modern man, ancestor of all people living today, appeared rather suddenly in Europe 35,000 years ago, spread south ward into Africa and eastward into Asia, and finally, no more than 12,000 years ago, crossed the Bering land bridge to America. Now an anthropological heretic...