His predecessor in a like case was John Owtred, a monk who formulated the statement that Saint Peter had united in his hands spiritual and temporal power – the opposite of what Wycliffe taught.

When it is recalled that it was once the task of Owtred to defend the political interests of England against the demands of Avignon, one would more likely see him in agreement with Wycliffe than in opposition.

Uhtred ( also spelled Owtred ) was an English Benedictine monk, theologian and writer, born at Boldon, North Durham, about 1315 ; died at Finchale Abbey, 24 January 1396.

In the days of the mission to Bruges Owtred still belonged to Wycliffe's circle of friends.

Wycliffe's contest with Owtred and William Wynham ( or Wyrinham or Binham ) of Wallingford Priory and St Albans, the Benedictine professor of theology at Oxford, were formerly unknown, as were the earlier ones with William Wadeford.

He kept his trombone activities a secret at first, as his conservative religious father believed it an uncouth and sinful instrument.

The first kind of vice, though sinful, is believed less serious than the second.

" He believed people can make wrong ( sinful ) choices that will cause them to " fall from grace " or " backslide.

It was believed the illness had been brought on as a result of the king's sinful behaviour and he determined to repent and make amends.

They believed that remarriage after such a divorce is likewise sinful.

The Quran does not directly forbid cannabis ; however, cannabis is deemed to be khamr ( an intoxicant ) by many religious scholars and therefore generally believed to be haraam ( sinful ).

We have to tell ourselves that when Parker spoke in this vein, he believed what he said, because he could continue, `` But the truth, which cost me bitter tears to say, I must speak, though it cost other tears hotter than fire ''.

In " The Complete Calvin And Hobbes ," Watterson does not name the inspiration for Calvin's character, but he does say Calvin is named for " a 16th-century theologian who believed in predestination ," and Hobbes for " a 17th-century philosopher with a dim view of human nature.

In response to those who say that the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is not a separate experience from conversion, Pentecostals appeal to the question asked by the Apostle Paul to the Ephesian believers " Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?

According to Gardner, the Surgenesons readily talked about the paranormal with him ; the patriarch of the family, Ted Surgeneson, believed that fairies were living in his garden and would say " I can often feel they're there, and sometimes I've seen them ", though he readily admitted the possibility that it was all in his imagination.

Muslim historians say that Caliph Uthman ibn Affan ( the third khalifa ( caliph ) of the Rashidun Empire, or third successor of Muhammad, who had formerly been Muhammad's secretary ), is generally believed to urge Muslims to record the hadith just as Muhammad suggested to some of his followers to write down his words and actions.

Although most felt the Russian Revolution was working class in character, they believed that, since capitalist relations still existed ( because the workers had no say in running the economy ), the Soviet Union ended up as a state capitalist country, with the state replacing the individual capitalist.

As the play appears to celebrate King James's ancestors and the Stuart accession to the throne in 1603 ( James believed himself to be descended from Banquo ), scholars say that the play is unlikely to have been composed earlier than 1603 and suggest that the parade of eight kings — which the witches show Macbeth in a vision in Act IV — is a compliment to King James.

Thus, to say the name of the play inside a theatre is believed to doom the production to failure, and perhaps cause physical injury or death to cast members.

The Oxford Dictionary of Popes acknowledges that this legend was widely believed for centuries, even among Catholic circles, but declares that there is " no contemporary evidence for a female Pope at any of the dates suggested for her reign ," and goes on to say that " the known facts of the respective periods make it impossible to fit female Pope in ".

In their introduction to the Miles Gloriosus, Hammond, Mack and Moskalew say that “ the Romans were acquainted with the Greek stone theater, but, because they believed drama to be a demoralizing influence, they had a strong aversion to the erection of permanent theaters .” This worry rings true when considering the subject matter of Plautus ’ plays.

However, the correspondence itself is something Wittgenstein believed we could not say anything about.

It is believed that the first person to say " shit " on British TV was John Cleese of the Monty Python comedy troupe in the late 1960s, as he, himself, says in his eulogy for Graham Chapman.

Phenomenalism differs from Berkeleyan idealism primarily in that Berkeley believed that minds, or souls, are not merely ideas nor made up of ideas, whereas varieties of phenomenalism, such as that advocated by Russell, tended to go farther to say that the mind itself is merely a collection of perceptions, memories, etc., and that there is no mind or soul over and above such mental events.

They believed that no matter how venerable the traditional source, traditional authority is always open to question by comparison to what the Scriptures say.

* God is not ignorant ( one should not say that God is wise since that word arrogantly implies we know what " wisdom " means on a divine scale, whereas we only know what wisdom is believed to mean in a confined cultural context ).

Pedro de Valdivia is believed to have been born in the district of Castuera ( some say Villanueva de la Serena ) in Extremadura, Spain around 1500 ( some sources put his date of birth as early as 1497 or as late as 1505 ) to an impoverished hidalgo family.

Some Greek sources say that he was the son of Gaia and Oceanus ; however, ancient Greeks generally believed with Hesiod that Tethys and Oceanus were the parents of all three thousand river gods.

Irving went to say that he believed anti-Semitism will increase all over the world because " the Jews have exploited people with the gas chamber legend " and that " In ten years, Israel will cease to exist and the Jews will have to return to Europe ".

In India, the federal police say that around 1. 2 million children are believed to be involved in prostitution.

This is not to say that he believed the planets were all equidistant.

As he came to understand later, they realized that his attitude " implied a fundamental and utter lack of faith, and a dependence on my own lights, and attachment to my own opinion "; furthermore, since " I did not believe in anything ,... anything I might say I believed would be only empty talk.

This is not to say that Merton believed that these religions did not have valuable rituals or practices for him and other Christians, but that, doctrinally, Merton was so committed to Christianity and he felt that practitioners of other faiths were so committed to their own doctrines that any discussion of doctrine would be useless for all involved.

The Venkatam hill is believed to be a part of the celestial Mount Meru brought to the earth from Vaikuntam by Garuda ( Lord's vehicle ), say the Puranas.

Medar preached the value of movement and location above velocity, and advised throwing softer when in a jam instead of harder ; Maddux would later say, " I believed it.

Lollards challenged the practice of clerical celibacy and believed priests should not hold government positions as such temporal matters would likely interfere with their spiritual mission.

The theory of special relativity is believed to hold throughout the universe, provided that the spatial and temporal length scales are sufficiently short ; otherwise, the more general theory of general relativity must be applied.

Paradise ( svarga ) is believed to be a place of temporal attractions to be avoided by the seeker to pursue the ultimate goal of union / yoking with God through Yoga.

Other modalities that have been formalized in modal logic include temporal modalities, or modalities of time ( notably, " It was the case that p ", " It has always been that p ", " It will be that p ", " It will always be that p "), deontic modalities ( notably, " It is obligatory that p ", and " It is permissible that p "), epistemic modalities, or modalities of knowledge (" It is known that p ") and doxastic modalities, or modalities of belief (" It is believed that p ").

Actively rehearsing information is believed to be a major factor counteracting this temporal decline.

The region encompasses most of the ventral temporal cortex, a region believed to play a part in high-level visual processing and recognition memory.

The region encompasses most of the lateral temporal cortex, a region believed to play a part in auditory processing and language.

" This may be a result of brain damage to the posterior portion of the superior temporal gyrus, believed to contain representations of word sounds.

Phase precession also results in the compression of temporal sequences of place cell firing — a phenomenon believed to facilitate synaptic plasticity.

These upheavals were a source of great concern to many Catholics, and they were of particular importance to Bourget, who as an ultramontane believed firmly in the supreme authority of the Pope in all matters both temporal and spiritual.

Up until recently, researchers believed that involuntary memories were a result of traumatic incidents that the individual experienced at a specific time and place, but the temporal and spatial features of the event are lost during an involuntary recollection episode.