Modifying Another Word

• almost: Excuse me... Some of these remarks may be felt by colleagues to be almost heretical, and possibly damaging to The Cause.

• even: Some say the ghost is that of George Marsh, a sixteenth century preacher with a highly controversial even heretical outlook.

• too: Is it too heretical to provide freedom of choice?

• truly: It is, I take it, wrong ( indeed, truly heretical ) to say that God manifests himself by the Holy Spirit.

• that: As in Jesus Christ is God made manifest - is that heretical?

• potentially: What has changed since the " Star Wars " era is that Bush has accepted the experts ' potentially heretical thesis.

Modifies a noun

• opinion: In the meantime one could air as many heretical opinions as desired and give all the arguments in favor of them.

• thought: I may be about to express an heretical thought here but how many people have dispensed with the bilge keels?

• teaching: This credal statement seems to have been formulated to counter Marcionite and other similar heretical teachings.

Used with adjective complement

• declare: They tell us the beliefs of the Gnostic sects declared heretical by the early church.

• consider: People might then be willing to follow a preacher, prophet or king who teaches what normally would have been considered heretical.

• seem: Wisdom often requires new thinking about old problems and new ideas may seem heretical at first.

• label: Kazantzakis's classic novel, blacklisted by the Vatican, filmed by Scorsese, has been labeled heretical, blasphemous and a masterpiece.