Sentences with phrase «christendom by»

You need a history lesson, start with the wars of Muhammad, read about the slave raids into Christendom by the Caliphates, study the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottomans, and finish today with the persecution of Christians.

(Attack upon Christendom by Soren Kierkegaard, translated by Walter Lowrie, pp. 32 - 33.

The crisis of Christianism came finally through the division of Western Christendom by the Reformation and the wars that followed upon that.

-- Will This Rock in Rio by Ken Lottis — Attack Upon Christendom by Soren Kierkegaard — Plan B by Pete Wilson — Electing Not to Vote edited by Ted Lewis — The Sacred Journey by Charles Foster — Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card — UnChristian by David Kinnaman — Resurrection of the Son of God by NT Wright — Church Without Walls by Jim Petersen — Repenting of Religion by Greg Boyd — Spontaneous Expansion of the Church Roland Allen — Unlearning Church by Michael Slaughter — The Open Secret by Lesslie Newbigin — When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert — The Ministry of the Spirit by Roland Allen — The Mission of God by Christopher J.H. Wright — An Emergent Theology for Emerging Churches by Ray S. Anderson — Provacative Faith by Matthew Paul Turner — Transforming Mission by David Bosch — The Roman Empire and the New Testament by Warren Carter — I'm Fine with God; It's Chrsitians I Can't Stand by Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz — Jesus and Empire by Richard A. Horsley — Simply Christian by NT Wright — Jesus, the Jewish Theologian by Brad H. Young

Despite the significant intellectual harm inflicted on Christendom by Luther and subsequent modern and postmodern philosophers, the Catholic synthesis of faith and reason has endured to this day.

Noll summarizes the situation with what he calls an oversimplification, but to which he lends plentiful support: «Where Britain retained Christendom by subordinating the Bible, America would unleash the Bible by overthrowing Christendom.»

Mission, therefore, primarily aimed at the conversion of the «heathen» into the Christian «race», through which it expanded Christendom by inculcating its values among the so - called «heathen.»

The fragmentation of Christendom by the Reformation did not immediately end the epoch of Christianism.

Not exact matches

Their idea of a unified Europe was influenced positively by Catholic Social Teaching and the traditions of Latin Christendom, and negatively by the horrors of the world wars and the German - French rivalry that had led to them.

Coronations of monarchs were important religious ceremonies because their religious legitimation of particular political rulers expressed Christendom's fundamental claim that the empire's (or nation's) authority and unity was ordained by God.

Even among the churches of Christendom, Isaiah wrote: «Hear the word of Jehovah, you men who are trembling at his word: «Your brothers that are hating you, that are excluding you by reason of my name, (those trembling at Jehovah's word) said,» May Jehovah be glorified»... (the so - called «brothers») are the ones that will be put to shame.»

According to The New Encyclopædia Britannica, the one called St.Augustine's «mind was the crucible in which the religion of the New Testament was most completely fused with the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy; and it was also the means by which the product of this fusion was transmitted to the Christendoms of medieval Roman Catholicism and Renaissance Protestantism.»

Let's face it: we in Christendom face a narrowing stereotype that is not helped by articles like this one.

Let's face it — we in Christendom face an ever - narrowing stereotype that is not helped by articles like this one.

Today, the religions of Christendom display a similar disrespect for the truth of the Bible, by giving preference to scientific theories, such as the Catholic church accepting evolution.

There is marked divergence of thought on who God is, from being called Allah by Muslims to being nameless by the churches of Christendom, to the Jews having replaced God's name with G - d, to the Hindus worshiping millions of gods.

``... a new culture is foreshadowed in the turbulence and spiritual confusion of [our] times... our certainty of imminent change is based... upon the worldwide breakdown of established social order and traditional culture;... nowhere more marked or more disastrous than within that civilisation... that goes by the name of Christendom.»

He begins his Gospel with the exhilarating trumpet call to «prepare the way of the Lord,» but he makes it clear, by his description of the disciples» activity in the rest of his Gospel, that the way to do so is not by becoming a member of the Knights Templar and gallantly defending Christendom, but rather by performing humble and routine tasks.

The author of The Next Christendom and numerous other books on religion and culture does a superb job of demonstrating how Native American spiritualities have been both invented and exploited by promoters of «New Age» religion.

What we know as the traditional image of the Incarnation is precisely the means by which Christendom laid the ground for an inevitable willing of the death of God, for this traditional image made possible the sanctification of «time» and «nature,» a sanctification finally leading to the transformation of eternity into time.

In response to those who would discredit Christianity by pointing to the sins and failures of Christendom, we have pointed out that no people or nation has ever embodied Christianity in its fullness and purity.

I was bemused — also mildly bruised — by the violent elbowing and shoving of my fellow pilgrims as we approached what are arguably the holiest sites in all of Christendom.

Simply by noting the overwhelming power and the comprehensive expression of the modern Christian experience of the death of God, we can sense the effect of the ever fuller movement of the Word or Spirit into history, a movement whose full meaning only dawns with the collapse of Christendom, and in the wake of the historical realization of the death of God.

In the years when fresh invasions were sweeping new waves of pagans in destructive raids into nominally Christian areas and Arabs were bringing about half of what had been Christendom under the sway of the Crescent, Christianity was recouping some of its losses by conversions in that very Mediterranean Basin and on the borders of what had been the Roman Empire among peoples which until then had been largely on entirely outside its influence.

«In time we will rediscover prayer as the invisible centre and foundation of culture... and from that centre will be born a new civilization... a Christendom, but distinguished from the old Christendom not least by the fact that it will be shaped by many religious traditions.»

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.

In one instant, the corrupt shortcomings of medieval Christendom are both exposed and reversed by a revelation of the essential unity of mankind.

From this perspective it would even be possible to understand Christendom's religious reversal of the movement of Spirit into flesh as a necessary consequence of the Incarnation, preparing the way for a more comprehensive historical realization of the death of God by its progressive banishment of the dead body of God to an ever more transcendent and inaccessible realm.

What eventually emerged from the chrysalis of early Christianity was Christendom, ruled by an ecclesiastical institution which inherited the structures of imperial Rome.

Only such a dialectical negation can save the meaning of faith from the darkness brought on by the collapse of Christendom.

From the beginning, he rebelled against God, or against the God then present in Christendom, ironically disguising his attack by presenting him under the guise of a number of simple though powerful symbols, the most successful of which is surely the «Tyger.»

Yes, many aspects of Christendom are not so reasonable, and can be safely discarded, but the core beliefs of Christianity as founded by Jesus and centered upon Him can stand up to any and all challenges.

The Bible is filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit of God; the books of it and the words of it and the very letters of it [A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, by Andrew D. White, Vol.

The very fact that Christendom is collapsing about us and within us can be greeted by the Christian as a decisive witness to the contemporary presence of the Word.

Albert Schweitzer identified Paul as the creator of Christian theology, but as A. von Harnack teaches, Paul's theology was not understood by Christendom until the Reformation if even then.

Though religion in general and lowest common denominator religion were attacked in the fifties as a modern perversion of traditional religion by neo-orthodox critics and those like Will Herberg who were influenced by them, actually such general religion has a long and honorable history in Christendom.

On Maundy Thursday Christendom commemorates the institution of the Eucharist by our Lord.

When we reflect that the original message of Jesus was an eschatological proclamation of the dawning of the Kingdom of God, that the patristic Church transformed this message by a dissolution and elimination of its apocalyptic ground, that, ever since, the dogmatic and ritual foundations of the orthodox Church have been non-apocalyptic, and that it has only been in the non-verbal arts that Christendom has produced an apocalyptic imagery, then on this ground alone we would be fully justified in pronouncing Blake to be a revolutionary artist and seer.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

Much of what the west has long taken for granted is now disappearing: the security provided by Christendom; the Christian way of interpreting reality; the confidence that the Christian path leads to eternal salvation; and the belief that Christian doctrine embodies the essential and unchangeable truths by which to live.

The long struggle was described in all its gory detail by Andrew Dickson White in A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, published in 1896.

Christendom has totally warped God's mercy in an attempt to make Him seem bigger by making men seem weaker than they were created to be.

Using as examples what he saw as the crusaders» thuggish disruption of the equilibrium between civilized Islamic and Eastern Christian lands of the eastern Mediterranean, and their destruction of Byzantium, which they had originally set out to assist, thereby allowing the Ottoman Turks to subjugate half of Christendom, Runciman sought to show how civilization — any civilization — is imperiled once high culture, reason, learning, and moderation are challenged by violent greed and ignorance.

Sanneh observes that «people want to interpret Christianity by standards of exegesis and doctrine familiar to them, something that the Christendom model of the church warranted.

That, however, is not so easy to do when for centuries the church has followed policies (not unwittingly, as the Fuller professors state, but systematically and by unholy design) that sought to de-Judaize the Jews and submerge them in various brands of Christendom.

This too — this exodus that has already been experienced by most churches in Europe and (to a somewhat lesser extent) North America — is an inevitable aspect of the humiliation of Christendom, the pluralization of religion, and the secularization of society.

During the Middle Ages, Christendom was dominated by pictures and carvings of the Last Judgement.

By the 11th century, Muslims were far more likely to pursue jihad against their fellow Muslims than against Christendom.

In his Attack upon «Christendom» Soren Kierkegaard suggested that «the illusion of a Christian nation is due... to the power which number exercises over the imagination... It is said, that [an innkeeper] sold his beer by the bottle for a cent less than he paid for it; and when a certain man said to him, «How does that balance the account?

In Augustine's time, Christians were the «third people,» after pagan Romans and Jews, while by the end of the sixth century they were indisputably the «first people,» with all that entailed for the development of Christendom.