Word: hereticism
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The "oldest Protestant church" in western Christendom celebrated a centennial last week. In 1179 a rich Lyons merchant named Peter Waldo took a vow of poverty and defied the Pope by preaching and interpreting the Bible on his own. Excommunicated as a heretic, Waldo fled to the hills with his...
Coming from a Marxist in Soviet Russia, this was a sensational lot of heresies. Varga not only contradicted Marx, but the premises of Russia's current policy toward the U.S. and Britain. Last week, the U.S. heard the complete & unabridged story of what had happened to the heretic.
The historic role of the splinter, the minority, the "heretic," if you will, is a noble one in America. The heresy of today is oft the orthodoxy of tomorrow. No one is more an integral part of the American scene than is the reformer, the dreamer of better worlds, the...
But the faith of ascetic, heretic-burning John Calvin was stern, hard and alien to a boisterous young country in a nature-taming age. Calvinism insisted on 1) the total depravity of man, 2) a God who, for His own good reasons, irrevocably divided all mankind into the Elect and...
To be sure, said one paper, there was a good harpist at the Royal Dublin Society's concert, but she was a Russian. Besides, said another, the traditional harp of the great Brian Boru had 30 strings, and this heraldic harp had only 15, for all that they were...