Sentences with phrase «christendom believed»

Most of Christendom believes hell = Lake of Fire.

Not exact matches

But more than 1.5 billion Orthodox and Catholics, 75 percent of Christendom, believe that Christ Himself gave the apostles, their successors and priests the ability to forgive sin on His behalf and His Church.

Yes, spiritual warfare on every front of Christendom and when these hit pieces come out against the men of God who lead these churches (institutions as you call them), I believe it aids and abets the enemy.

Of course, Blake belongs to a large company of radical or spiritual Christians, Christians who believe that the Church and Christendom have sealed Jesus in his tomb and resurrected the very evil and darkness that Jesus conquered by their exaltation of a solitary and transcendent God, a heteronomous and compulsive law, and a salvation history that is irrevocably past.

It is no longer possible to believe that the great central values of Christendom will so commend themselves to the wise and just as to survive without special and even to some degree coercive nurture.

Regardless, whether someone articulates it that directly or not, I would still venture that there is a fair amount of Christendom that at their core believe it, even if they would never say it that way.

I believe Christendom is failing because we keep thinking that it's a religion and doing our best to perfect it as such.

The story he tells will be familiar to readers of Jenkins's The Next Christendom and The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South.

Today Christendom no longer exists and we are moving towards a world in which the Christian peoples or the peoples that have formerly been Christian will be a minority... We no longer have any solid grounds for believing that the post-Christian era is likely to realize any of the humanitarian utopias in which the idealists of the nineteenth century put their faith.2

Nonetheless, it can be claimed that the Christian world of the High Middle Ages attained such a homogeneity of culture, one so permeated by Christian values and beliefs (as then understood), that it can be quite properly referred to as Christendom: that is, a domain or realm where Christ was believed to rule.

By the term «conventional Christianity» van de Pol did not mean the Christianity of the first three or four centuries, but rather Christianity as it was believed and has been practiced since the Christianization of Europe; that is, since the formation of Christendom.

However, it is obvious, if one is observant enough, that many of the most popular voices in Christendom right now believe women are not suitable for ministry and that they can not and should not be pastors or even teach a man.

I am a firm believer in the theology of Christendom's «moral» revelations and while I do so believe in God, the Father of All Cosmologic Creation (s) and I am bound by my Faith in God's Sons and Daughters who do wherever possible in the wholeness of the Cosmos make manifest all the living Life Formations as are here upon and within this earth!

In the half century following World War I increasing numbers of persons both inside and outside the churches came to believe that their civilization was no longer basically Christian and that Christendom was a fading reality.

Some believe that the defense of Christendom against atheistic Marxism is the most basic requirement.

Some believe that the defence of Christendom against atheistic Marxism is the most basic requirement.

Western Christendom was an expanding, curious, inventive society - which is perhaps the chief reason historians generally believe that the «terrors of the year 1000» existed largely in the minds of nineteenth - century Romantics like Michelet.

We firmly believe that a way may be found through the maze of divided Christendom out into the open spaces of Christian union only as the people of Christ follow the golden thread of an earnest desire to know and do his will.

It just doesn't necessarily follow, as we see Christendom at large believe orthodox doctrines about Jesus and remain unsaved.