Shibboleth Sentence Examples

shibboleth

There is no single shibboleth used as a test.

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The Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, became a shibboleth for Reagan, the believer in Armageddon.

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A willingness to call the Virgin Mary Theotokos is an important shibboleth for Christological orthodoxy.

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This may be the case with those for whom homophobia has become the shibboleth of orthodoxy.

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It became - to quote Professor Kattenbusch - the "secular" designation of the adherents of the Reformation, the shibboleth of the "liberal" ecclesiastical and theological tendencies.

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The Alexandrians, led by Cyril, stood for the doctrine of the perfect union of two complete natures in one person, and made Novi/cos the shibboleth of orthodoxy.

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Whether or no the so-called "fourth formula" (Hahn, § 156) is to be ascribed to a continuation of this synod or to a subsequent but distinct assembly of the same year, its aim is like that of the first three; while repudiating certain Arian formulas it avoids the Athanasian shibboleth "homoousios."

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