Time travel was once considered scientific heresy.

Now, this is heresy in the design world.

There was, in fact, nothing politically heretical in speaking of a federal formula for South Africa.

Pope Gregory II rejected iconoclasm and denounced it as heretical.

The consensus at the time, of course, was that a robust V shaped recovery was around the corner, and it was foolish to embrace inflation heterodoxy.

For the true believers in this creed, the suggestion that the manager of a business should strive for anything except maximizing value for shareholders is heresy.

One of the most influential figures in Iran during the Republic s first decade, Montazeri provided an extensive justification for the supreme leader s absolute authority, which many ayatollahs considered heretical.

Some 2,000 Shia pilgrims gathered near the mosque that houses the Prophet s tomb for the commemoration of Mohamed s death, an act of worship that the ruling Saudi Wahhabi sect considers heretical and idolatrous.

Referring to capital controls, John Maynard Keynes famously said what used to be heresy restrictions on capital flows is now endorsed as orthodoxy.

These zealots are not fundamentalists in any common sense of the term, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals there is no Hindu pope, no Hindu Sabbath, no single Hindu holy book, and no such thing as a Hindu heresy.

BOSTON What used to be heresy is now endorsed as orthodox, John Maynard Keynes remarked in 1944, after helping to convince world leaders that the newly established International Monetary Fund should allow the regulation of international financial flows to remain a core right of member states.