Sentences with phrase «christendom means»

The decline of Christendom meant that public life was becoming increasingly secularized and Christianity was being privatized.

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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».

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.»

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.

If theology is to transcend itself it must negate itself, for theology can be reborn only through the death of Christendom, which finally means the death of the Christian God, the God who is the transcendence of Being.

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.

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

They mean Christendom.

The confusion in modern Christendom about the meaning of the ministry makes itself evident in uncertainty about pastoral authority as well as in the vagueness present in thought about pastoral functions.

The Reformers spoke in biblicist terms when trying to rid Christendom of what they identified as Catholic errors, but biblicism became a less functional standard once Protestants began to disagree among themselves about the meaning of the Bible.

Edwin E. Aubrey, Present Theological Tendencies, (New York: Harper and Brothers), 1936), 187; C. C. Morrison, «Thomism and the Re-birth of Protestant Theology,» Christendom, II, 1 (Winter 1937), 110 - 125; Randolph Cramp Miller, «Theology In Transition,» The Journal of Religion XX, 2 (April 1940), 160 - 168; Eugene W. Lyman, The Meaning and Truth of Religion (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933), 269 - 283.

Bishops hold the rank of sovereign princes, and the temporal and spiritual power of the first bishop of Christendom renders him somehow the arbiter of kings («arbiter of kings» means that the pope was higher than the Emperor, and thus the actual temporal ruler of the whole world) and the fourth person of the Divinity («person of Divinity» means that the pope really presumes to be on a level with God).

When we take over Paul's theology of the cross without exegeting our context, this theology, originally conceived as a means of harnessing power for the sake of others, becomes a rationalization of our powerlessness, our spiritlessness — the jaded, enervated religious malaise of twilight Christendom.

Truth sets you free and I mean a truth that sheds the light on all of the watered down teachings of christendom.

Muslims can not be counted as worshiping «the only true God», for they fail to use his personal name, Jehovah, but use the Aramaic word Allah, meaning «the God» and are as mixed with the «world» and violence as are the churches of Christendom and Jews, not having» beaten their swords into plowshares and spears into pruning shears» whereby «nation will not lift sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore».

It means that the culture of this and other nations rather than the reality of Christendom is becoming the conditioning frame of reference for the Protestant church.

At least in many parts of Christendom the quest for meaning, the revival of historic religious convictions about man's nature and destiny, about his lostness and his salvation, and the need to realize the significance of these convictions in relation to contemporary world and life views, have led to a renewal of the theological endeavor.

We need to examine what we mean by Christian civilization, or «Christendom», a word often used as a synonym.

In the case of Christendom, the «autonomous world of meaning and existence» was supplied by the complex of myths, goals and values of the religious tradition we now call Christianity.

Thus the «Christian west» is today very different from the «autonomous world of meaning and existence», which it was when known as Christendom.

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.

This amalgam of Israelite prophetic zeal and the more abstract concepts of Greek philosophy constituted the belief system that provided Christendom with its «autonomous world of meaning and existence».

The very fact that our present is so detached from its past, from Christendom, with its corollary that an acceptance of the present demands a negation of Christendom, of the Christian God, can mean that the horizon of our present will open into a future epiphany of faith that will draw all things into itself.

Without doubt theology must abandon Christendom, and, as we have already seen, Christendom may well include all the meaning which the word «Christian» carries to our ears.

Western Christendom at the turn of the first millennium, however, may have been the first society to give historical meaning to «progress» by undertaking great social enterprises terminating only at a horizon of unguessable distance.

And all the while the meaning of a Christendom organized for justice and fraternity, for the piety which enfranchises the individual and liberates society, was unfolding before their eyes.

It was God who discovered the doctrine of the God - Man, and now Christendom has got the thing turned topsy - turvy and imputes to God consanguinity, so that the concession God has made means pretty much what in these times it means when a king grants a freer constitution — and one knows well enough what that means, «He pretty well had to.»

He later devoted a number of chapters and essays to such themes as: «The Destiny of the Jewish People» (in On the Philosophy of History, 1957); «Judaism» and «The Iniquitous Lot Inflicted on Jews in Christendom» (in On the Church of Christ); and «The Christian Meaning of the Story of the Crucifixion» (Jewish Frontier, 1944, reprinted in The Range of Reason, 1952).

I mean only that in fact those first engaged in constructing Enlightenment beliefs were socialized in Christendom.

This means that women participated along with the men in the very first conclave of Christendom.