Glanvill wanted to prove that the supernatural could not be denied ; those who did deny apparitions were considered heretics for it also disproved their beliefs in angels.

He denied the supernatural birth of Jesus, making him the son of Joseph and Mary, and distinguishing him from Christ, who descended upon him at baptism ( see also Adoptionism ) and left him again at his crucifixion.

While admitting relatively supernatural gifts, they denied that the partaking of Divine nature and the adoption to eternal life differ essentially from our natural moral life.

As his quest approaches its climax, he risks his supernatural powers to forestall an attempt to destroy the world thus redeeming what was denied him for so long: his own eternal human soul.

About 2 percent were denied admission to the U. S. and sent back to their countries of origin for reasons such as having a chronic contagious disease, criminal background, or insanity.

The SETI Institute has also publicly denied that the candidate signal Radio source SHGb02 + 14a is of extraterrestrial origin though full details of the signal, such as its exact location have never been disclosed to the public.

In addition, the right to style himself Highness ( Majesty, which since its Roman origin expresses the sovereign authority of the state, was denied to all " vassals "), a title of great importance in international relations, was formally restricted to rulers of relatively high salute ranks ( originally only those with 11 guns or more, later also those with nine guns ).

The right to vote cannot be denied on the grounds of " race, creed, sex, social status, family origin, education, property or income " ( Article 44 ).

At first she vigorously denied it, but then – under intense peer pressure – she confessed to the baby's origin but claimed that she had been raped.

Koenig always denied the " Russian origin " story and said the character was added in response to the popularity of The Monkees ' Davy Jones, and the character's hairstyle and appearance are a direct reference to this.

In his New Reading of History ( 1908 ), Shin Chaeho ( 1880 – 1936 ) denied Gija's civilizing role in Korea, because Gija's Chinese origin went against Shin's reinterpretation of Korean history as the history of the racially defined Korean ethnic nationalism | Korean minjok ( nation ).

: He sought the origin of the Japanese culture in Okinawa, though many of his speculations were denied by later researchers.

Children of dissidents, of those in political disfavor, or of open adherents of a religious sect were denied admission to higher education in favor of children whose parents were party members or who were of proletarian origin.

The origin of haftarah reading is lost to history, and several theories have been proposed to explain its role in Jewish practice, suggesting it arose in response to the persecution of the Jews under Antiochus Epiphanes which preceded the Maccabean revolt, wherein Torah reading was prohibited, or that it was " instituted against the Samaritans, who denied the canonicity of the Prophets ( except for Joshua ), and later against the Sadducees.

In an apparent attempt to quell speculation about the military nature of flying saucers, a press conference was held in July 1952, at which Major John A. Sandford denied any knowledge of the craft, and retired Major Donald E. Keyhoe declared his belief that they were of alien origin.

Odin bestowed on Starkad the blessings of living three lifetimes, of possessing the most excellent of weapons, an abundance of riches, victory in battle, the gift of poetry and always to be held in the highest esteem among the rich and powerful. Thor, however, who hated Starkad because of his jotun origin, denied Starkad the blessing of having children and cursed him to commit a crime every lifetime he lived and never to possess real estate.

This charge was denied by the US State Department, who responded that " the Greek terrorist organization ' 17 November ' was responsible for both assassinations ", and noted that Grivas's central piece of evidence was a disinformation document of Soviet origin ( the so-called " Westmoreland Field Manual ") which the State department, as well as a Congressional inquiry had dismissed as a Soviet forgery.

At that time, he filed for a pre-removal risk assessment with the citizenship and immigration department, which determines if a denied refugee applicant would be subject to torture, death or a risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment if returned to their country of origin.

The high court, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, ruled that United States citizens could not be excluded from jury duty based on national origin, because such exclusion denied the accused a jury of his peers.

He was denied certain opportunities because he did not have an established aristocratic origin.

As a gnostic, he certainly denied the resurrection of the body ; and so far as we can judge by the obscure quotations from his hymns furnished by Ephrem he explained the origin of the world by a process of emanation from the supreme God whom he called the Father of the living.

He professed the most open materialism, denied immortality in all forms and taught that the soul of man is homogeneous with the soul of animals and plants, material in origin and incapable of separate existence.

Whether seen as a pagan work with “ Christian coloring ” added by scribes or as a “ Christian historical novel, with selected bits of paganism deliberately laid on as ' local color ', as Margaret E. Goldsmith did in “ The Christian Theme of Beowulf ,” it cannot be denied that Christianity pervades the text, and with that, the use of the Bible as a source.

Ancient Greek thought and Islam affirm pre-existence, but it is generally denied in Judaism and Christianity.

The Pelagians charged Augustine on the grounds that the doctrine of original sin amounted to Manichaeism: the Manichaeans taught that the flesh was in itself sinful ( and they denied that Jesus came in the flesh ) – and this charge would have carried added weight since contemporaries knew that Augustine himself had been a Manichaean layman before his conversion to Christianity.

Docetism, the heresy that denied the death and subsequent resurrection of Jesus by emphasizing that Jesus was only God and not man, was condemned by Proto-orthodox Christianity in the late 1st to early 2nd century.

There were four major factors for this animosity: Paine denied that the Bible was a sacred, inspired text ; he argued that Christianity was a human invention ; his ability to command a large readership frightened those in power ; and his irreverent and satirical style of writing about Christianity and the Bible offended many believers.

Other common claims are that Celtic Christianity denied the authority of the Pope, was less authoritarian than the Catholic Church, more spiritual, friendlier to women, more connected with nature, and more comfortable dealing with the ancient Celtic religion.

Though denied a paid teaching position at the University owing to his faith, he refused to convert to Christianity.

* September 5-The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan denied Western diplomats access to a court where eight foreign aid workers were on trial for promoting Christianity, but Chief Justice Noor Mohammad Saqib said the defendants could hire foreign lawyers.

Having returned to Alexandria, Arius, according to a single source, sided with Meletius of Lycopolis in his dispute over the readmission of those who had denied Christianity under fear of Roman torture, and was ordained a deacon under the latter's auspices.

In antiquity, the existence of Jesus was never denied by those who opposed Christianity.

Contrary to proto-orthodox Christianity, Cerinthus's school followed the Jewish law, used the Gospel according to the Hebrews, denied that the Supreme God had made the physical world, and denied the divinity of Jesus.

Hindu groups allege that he forcefully converted or lured many Hindus into Christianity, but Staines ' widow Gladys Staines denied these allegations.

Andrews Norton, a leading theologian of the day, responded publicly and insisted that disbelief in miracles ultimately denied the truth of Christianity.

He especially rejected monotheist religions, such as Christianity, Judaism or Islam, saying that he denied any revelation.

# On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity by Baden Powell —" flatly denied the possibility of miracles "

Men from leading Roman families who declined to convert to Christianity were denied positions of power yet still received appointments, even up to the end of his life, and two-thirds of his top government was non-Christian.

The Israeli government denied his request, on the grounds that he had converted to Christianity.

To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

Any claimant whose claim is denied, or is approved for less than the full amount of such claim, shall be entitled, under such regulations as the Commission may prescribe, to a hearing before the Commission, or its duly authorized representatives, with respect to such claim.

That is, he did not claim in any of the four courts through which his case progressed that the jury charge had denied him any federal right.

Should Congress authorize the Attorney General to file suit to accomplish admission of a child to a school to which he is denied entrance??

This is softer than earlier Powell amendments which would have denied funds to all segregated school districts.

If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.

Whereas, John Brown has cheerfully risked his life in endeavoring to deliver those who are denied all rights and is this day doomed to suffer death for his efforts in behalf of those who have no helper: Therefore,

One of the greatest Homerists of our time, Frederick M. Combellack, argues that when it is assumed The Iliad and The Odyssey are oral poems, the postulated single redactor called Homer cannot be either credited with or denied originality in choice of phrasing.

W. F. Bryan suggests that certain kennings in Beowulf were selected sometimes for appropriateness and sometimes for ironic inappropriateness, but such a view would appear untenable unless it is denied that the language of Beowulf is formulaic.

One alternative would be that having failed to grow marrows once, Poirot is determined to have another go, but this is specifically denied by Poirot himself.

Upon his assumption into immortality on Olympus, Heracles is given ambrosia by Athena, while the hero Tydeus is denied the same thing when the goddess discovers him eating human brains.

Hence the Alexandrists denied the possibility of any form of immortality, holding that, since the soul is organically connected with the body, the dissolution of the latter involves the extinction of the former.

He was reckoned by some ancient authors as one of the Seven Sages of Greece, and it is said that he was initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries of the Great Goddess, a privilege denied to those who did not speak fluent Greek.

In one anecdote his arrival at a chemical plant is described in which he was denied access by the director because he would not allow anyone to see the production procedure which was a trade secret.

Disraeli wrote a personal letter to Gladstone, asking him to place the good of the party above personal animosity: " Every man performs his office, and there is a Power, greater than ourselves, that disposes of all this ..." In responding to Disraeli Gladstone denied that personal feelings played any role in his decision then and previously to accept office, while acknowledging that there were differences between him and Derby " broader than you may have supposed.

It is popularly reported that Hoyle, who favored an alternative " steady state " cosmological model, intended this to be pejorative, but Hoyle explicitly denied this and said it was just a striking image meant to highlight the difference between the two models.

He then beseeches God to kill him, a request which is denied when God causes a tree to grow over him, giving him shade.

During most of its existence, the cabal ( sometimes capitalized ) steadfastly denied its own existence ; those involved would often respond " There is no Cabal " ( sometimes abbreviated as " TINC "), whenever the existence or activities of the group were speculated on in public.

In a storyline that begins prior to the timeline of the movie, Jade Fox is denied entry to the Wudang monastery because she is a woman.

" A modest man, but then he has so much to be modest about ", is a quote about Attlee that is very commonly ascribed to Churchill ( although Churchill in fact denied saying it, and respected Attlee's service in the War Cabinet ).