Matthew's own Christian community may have called themselves Nazoreans, a sect mentioned by Jerome and others: like Matthew, they maintained a " high Christology " ( i. e., they stressed Jesus ' divine nature over his human-ness ), and did not demand that Gentile Christians observe all the Law.

Further, the court held that while the statute forbade the teaching of evolution ( as the court had defined it ), it did not require the teaching of any other doctrine, so that it did not benefit any one religious doctrine or sect over the others.

In a letter, published after the election, Grant sought to unequivocally distance himself from General Orders No. 11: " Grant's self-serving explanation ", notes Jonathan Sarna, " did not actually bear close scrutiny ," but Jews nonetheless generously accepted his attempt at self-extrication: " I have no prejudice against sect or race, but want each individual to be judged by his own merit.

He did not think Muslims were pagans, but rather that they belonged to a heretical sect of Christianity and followed the teachings of a false prophet.

She did however, hold a negative view of certain interpretations of Neo-Darwinism, excessively focused on inter-organismic competition, as she believed that history will ultimately judge them as comprising " a minor twentieth-century religious sect within the sprawling religious persuasion of Anglo-Saxon Biology.

The paper presenting these results did not publish any new names for the subdivisions of sect.

Despite this, the sect of Shiva or of the Devi did not go into decline.

While many of the Bhakti mystics focused their attention on Krishna or Rama, it did not necessarily mean that the sect of Shiva was marginalized.

' Membership ' of a local Seekers assembly did not preclude membership of another sect.

The sect did not last long and in 1872 the church was handed over to the Church of Ireland.

The priests refused and did not accuse him of anything but Dolcino was terrorized and fled far away to the city of Trento where he met and joined the sect of the Apostolics.

He did not, however, confine himself to any particular sect or school, nor did he give himself up to any profound speculations, his object being rather to apply the doctrines of philosophy to the purposes of practical life, and more especially to the administration of public affairs, and thus to bring about a better state of things.

Pamphlets distributed by members of a Christian sect, the Exclusive Brethren, in early September caused further embarrassment for Brash ; although they were not anonymous, they did not refer to the Exclusive Brethren but were authorised in the names of individual church members.

After the death of Hasan al-Askari, there was a sect of his followers who believed, as a result of shock and bewilderment, that he did not die, but had instead entered occultation and that he was the Mahdi.

According to this sect, their beliefs were based upon the impossibility of the death of the Imam without an apparent known issue ( this sect did not believe in the imamate or even existence of Muhammad al-Mahdi ), since the earth can never be without an imam according to their doctrine.

Al-Yawar adamantly affirmed that " Saddam did not believe in any religion or sect – his injustices were inflicted on Sunnis, Shi ' is, Kurds and all other national groups and sects.

Paramārtha states that the Gokulika sect did not accept the Mahāyāna sūtras as buddhavacana (" words of the Buddha "), while the Lokottaravāda sect and the Ekavyāvahārika sect did accept the Mahāyāna sūtras as buddhavacana.

The texts are attributed to the Dharmaguptaka sect by Richard Salomon, the leading scholar in the field, and the British Library scrolls " represent a random but reasonably representative fraction of what was probably a much larger set of texts preserved in the library of a monastery of the Dharmaguptaka sect in Nagarāhāra.

The texts were likely compiled by the Dharmaguptaka sect and probably " represent a random but reasonably representative fraction of what was probably a much larger set of texts preserved in the library of a monastery of the Dharmaguptaka sect in Nagarāhāra ", according to leading scholar Richard Salomon.

It has been suggested that the figures represent the three dogmas of the so-called middle school of the sect.

Within Amaunator's church, there was an elite sect of clerics and holy warriors called sunmasters, who now represent a branch of the church of Lathander known as the Brotherhood of the Glorious Sun.

Fox seems to have had no desire to found a sect but only to proclaim what he saw as the pure and genuine principles of Christianity in their original simplicity, though he afterward showed great prowess as a religious legislator in the organization he gave to the new society.

Due to lack of reliable documentation there is a great degree of debate over Waldo's role in the Waldensian sect, which may have existed before his leadership.

Outside of Jewish history and writings, the Pharisees have been made notable by references in the New Testament to conflicts between themselves and John the Baptist and with Jesus, and because Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, both members of the sect, buried Jesus ' body at great personal risk.

He received not only the Nyingma transmissions as passed down in his family, but also studied with many of the great teachers of his day without regard to sect.

Kammu himself was a notable patron of the otherworldly Tendai sect, which rose to great power over the ensuing centuries.

It is sincerely believed by the Vaishnavism a sect of ancient Vedic Hindu religion, that Aadi Sesha the divine snake over which God Vishnu resides took incarnation as Lakshmana, later as the great Vaishnavaitic saint and philosopher Sri Ramanuja, later once again as Sri Manavala Mamunigal as he is the embodiment of ultimate service to lord Almighty Sriman Narayana

When Justinian, towards the close of his life, tried to raise the sect of the Aphthartodocetae to the rank of orthodoxy, and determined to expel Eutychius for his opposition, the able lawyer-ecclesiastic of Antioch, who had already distinguished himself by his great edition of the canons, was chosen to carry out the imperial will.

" I never was attached to that great sect,

Tradition claims that the sect was started by five saints and great Prophets namely, Renuka, Daruka, Ekorama, Panditaradhya and Vishwaradhya.

Brahacharnam is a corruption of the Sanskrit word Brahatcharnam () means " the great sect ".

His tomb is located in Yomei Temple in Tsuwano, which was built in 1420 and is known as one of two great Sōtō sect temples, the other being Daijo-ji Temple in Kanazawa city.

Buddha himself was looked upon in his lifetime and afterwards as a Hindu saint and avatar and his followers were but another sect in the great Aryan tradition.

His sect placed great emphasis on ceremony, music and practical education.

However, since his sect was the main religious body on the isle, claiming the allegiance of most of its inhabitants, Strang often asserted authority even over non-Strangites on Beaver — which ultimately caused him and his followers a great deal of grief.

The second legend is associated with the Vaishnava sect and narrates that Krishna appeared before a great devotee, King Indradyumna, and ordered him to carve a deity from a log which would eventually wash up on the shore at Puri.

* Aga Khan, hereditary title of the Imam of the Nizari Muslims of the Ismaili followers of the Shī ‘ a sect of Islam, the great imam of Shi ` a Islam.

The Dharmaguptakas made more efforts than any other sect to spread Buddhism outside India, to areas such as Iran, Central Asia, and China, and they had great success in doing so.

* 1720 ( Kyōhō 5, 6th month ): The 26th High Priest of Nichiren Shōshū, Nichikan Shōnin, who is considered a great reformer of the sect, inscribed the Gohonzon which the lay Buddhist organisation SGI uses to bestow upon its members, after the Nichiren Shōshū priesthood, under the leadership of 67th High Priest Nikken, refused to do so.

The Muggletonians had a belief that they could damn and bless according to the will of God and the apparent success of such damning ( apparently resulting in the death of certain religious, mainly Quaker, opponents ) brought the sect great prestige.

My dear Adam, this philosophy of yours is nearly of the same date as your ancestor's in Eden, and I can only say in reply, “ Who ever “ expected to see a dog do so ?” We have all read and heard of that snarling sect, the Cynicks, and if we could convert dogs into philosophers, or what is harder still, philosophical propositions into meat and bones, ( which I fear is more than most Scotch Professors can do ) I should apply metaphorically the following lines from a celebrated Poet, a great observer of human nature:

Bishnoism is the most practical, simple, eco-friendly and caring sect of Hindu Drama founded by great visionary saint Guru Jambheshwar Ji in year 1485 AD ( Vikram Sanwat 1542, Kartik month, Krishna 8th ) on a sand dune called Samrathal Dhora in Thar desert of Rajasthan, India.

The caves were historically associated with the Mahāsāṃghika sect of Buddhism, which had great popularity in this region of India, as well as wealthy patronage.