Where else but in
Christendom do we find records of an experience of total terror?
Her take on it is the one that most of the authority figures in Christendom don't want to hear.
For example, it was several hundred years before all parts of the Church accepted the Epistle to the Hebrews, and other areas of
Christendom did not accept the Letter of James or the Book of Revelation for over 400 years.
Not exact matches
Biraq, don't forget that medicine, education and agricultural technologies from
Christendom and Christian missionaries have been saving the whole humanity.
There were many evil things
done in the Name of Jesus Christ, but it is not really to be as surprise, becaue Jesus said that the evil one, which is the devil, will plant his seeds in the midst of God's church, meaning here «The
Christendom».
To be reasoned and reasonable might not be traits of rationalities attributed to many loving Christians who are too hellishly scared to clamour against the folds of riddled Atheists who
do ever make a foolish mockery out of all
Christendoms!
Of course, all that Paul VI
did, as Anscombe among many other unapologetic Catholics then and since have pointed out, was reiterate what just about everyone in the history of
Christendom had ever said on the subject.
As to the news about the Church of England — given the amount of corruption seen throughout
Christendom, and indeed among many professors of Christ, it
does make one wonder how soon the Rapture could actually be.
This rules out the prayers of the churches of
Christendom who have prayed in behalf of their particular nation during wartime, such as when German Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter in September 1939 at the outbreak of WWII that said: «In this decisive hour we admonish our Catholic soldiers to
do their duty in obedience to the Fuehrer (Hitler) and to be ready to sacrifice their whole individuality.
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.
I had no idea the «mentally ill» tactic was so widespread in
Christendom until I started
doing some training / consulting stuff with megas years ago.
Since those times I had
done a ton of reading, research, etc on trends in
Christendom and I am convinced that over the last 30 years more and more narcissists are now attracted to ministry where they have instant audiences, power, etc and are paid for it.
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.
It was like this reckoning where the term doesn't even serve all of [
Christendom].
It has
done so at times in
Christendom.
adding, so characteristically, «even Cyprian and Tolstoy
did not understand all the methods of the Blessed Spirit in
Christendom.»
The fragmentation of
Christendom by the Reformation
did not immediately end the epoch of Christianism.
And if Christianity
does not capture the truth of God, then surely neither
does any individual branch or denomination of
Christendom, despite the claims of little minds made through the centuries.
«
Christendom» not only
did not decline from this time, but with its famous doctrine of cuius regio, eius religio, its underlying logic received powerful, official sanction, and it has continued on in the fragmented territorial or «state churches» of the emergent European nation - states.
Not only
did ethnic tribalism spring to life again with the fragmentation of
Christendom, but Christianity and Islam have each tended to develop further forms of tribalism — religious tribalism.
Nor have I anything to say about cultures or peoples who have not suffered the history of faith and disenchantment we have, or who
do not share our particular relation to European antiquity or the heritage of ancient
Christendom.
We make mistakes in
christendom when we assume that masturbation is problematic for some, so no one, ever, should
do this private thing.
The reaching out from
Christendom to «mission fields» in the «non-Christian lands» was the basic way of
doing mission.
In «
Christendom» there was a cultural assumption that only Christianity was true, and therefore the Christian church had not only the right but the obligation to share — even to impose — its truth on those who
did not have it.
Indeed many things have been
done in
Christendom, although often at the behest of the political / religious establishment to further their causes, that
do not follow the example of Jesus or the principles set forth in the Gospel.
Ergo, taking the Bible as the honest word of the Deity, as mainstream
Christendom has
done shows that from the very start of Christianity the teaching of the rapture has been a valid part of the Christian faith.
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 worldly economics hundrances have leavened heavily upon most
Christendom's desires to
do what you profess and I
do find it somewhat a heart felt sense of optimism upon your salutations of rughteousness in your proclaing the goodness of
Christendom Of Faith who
does have such!
Christendom has tokenly taken a «smitten» of their «inseedments» to
do that which you profess Oh of Faith you who call yourself Faith.
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?
Another question has to
do with a practice that those in the «Catholic» churches of
Christendom have found so valuable: praying for the departed.
This is what is called preaching, and it is regarded in
Christendom as already a big thing that such preaching is
done and that some hear it.
What
do modern Jewish thinkers make of Christianity?Is Christianity in their eyes still the oppressive, pervasive presence that medieval Jews experienced as
Christendom?
And best of all, week by week and month by month, on a hundred thousand successive Sundays, faithfully, unfailingly, across all the parishes of
Christendom, the pastors have
done this just to make the plebs sancta dei — the holy common people of God.»
The selfishness of paganism, therefore, in spite of all that can be said about it, is not nearly so «qualified» as that of
Christendom, in so far as here also there is selfishness; for the pagan
did not possess his self directly in the face of God.
In
Christendom he too is a Christian, goes to church every Sunday, hears and understands the parson, yea, they understand one another; he dies; the parson introduces him into eternity for the price of $ 10 — but a self he was not, and a self he
did not become.
And it didn't just split Western
Christendom into «Catholic» and «Protestant», but into «Catholic» and «Protestants» — the latter encompassing many different flavours of evangelical and reformed belief.
They show also that the root of the malaise of the Church, and of
Christendom as a culture,
did not lie and
does not lie in structures, canon law, liturgy, or the use of the vernacular, necessary and urgent though reform in these spheres may have been.
Nevertheless, Western
Christendom's great spiritual and intellectual founder
did teach both church and civilization that the past exists only in the present moment of our remembering it and the future only in the present moment of our anticipating it, and he was utterly and disastrously wrong.
One of the most unpalatable lessons of history is that evil is often perpetrated by people who think they are
doing good as midwives of progress, agents of natural selection, saviors of
Christendom — whatever.
The difference here would be in
Christendom, it is about Love thy neighbor Give unto Ceasar Oh wait... may be our forefathers
did follow the holy book and hence created the civil law that exists today.
Among countries of historic
Christendom, France, Germany and England have proportionately far more Muslims than
does the U.S. India, the home of Hinduism, has many more Muslims and Christians than the U.S. has Hindus and Muslims.
Today, when most people think of «Christians» they
do think of a Western, militarized, power - hungry, egocentric, expansionist
Christendom.
I believe
Christendom is failing because we keep thinking that it's a religion and
doing our best to perfect it as such.
but the woman or our society keep the war against Rome going for 1000 years then another 1000 when England took over the assault, their valiant struggle
did not end until
Christendom put are woman to the subservient side of the coin, and the dark ages followed, my point is your right men and woman can not
do the same things men destroy, women create.
Is «fiction» but a monopoly thru which Atheismistics may Flourish with Secularisms» Pathogens as they go hand in hand lolly - gaggling and persecuting
Christendom's Believers of Monotheism that
does Ordain rather Openly Proclaim Free Will to ALL or am I missing a Point?
The living springs of
Christendom run low; - the waters of life which Christ promised to the peoples,
do they not seem today tobe a poor and muddled trickle?
I understand that your interpretation of scripture doesn't agree with Saint Augustine's, but you can not deny that forcible, violent conversion has been justified as righteous by some of the most influential theologians in the history of
Christendom.
Protestant leaders of the sixteenth century were unaware of the fact that primitive European man not only
did not naturally possess the sense of
Christendom but that
Christendom was the complete antithesis of life as the primitive European knew it — the complete antithesis of his devotion to tribalism and his passion for piracy.
Though the Catholic church itself eventually failed to realize the truth of its own teaching it had
done its job so well that for three centuries after the Reformation Catholic, Protestant and freethinker alike continued to live under the spell of
Christendom.