In
Christendom there were standard ways not only of being a Christian but of being truly human.
Just as a butterfly develops from a larva, growing inside a shell which was once the skin of a grub, so out of the chrysalis of
Christendom there is currently emerging a new kind of society — a global, humanistic and secular society.
For the first time in
Christendom there was legal religious freedom as distinct from toleration in a commonwealth.
Not exact matches
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».
And when I hear the shackled stream, shedding its icy iron chains, begin to live its dormant dream and sing its rivulet refrains, a hope wells up that
there will come another spring of
Christendom.
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.
JON: All of these things that we're talking about are human institutions, and
there's a really great differencebetween
Christendom and the Church.
Out of the original Christian hope for the imminent coming of the Kingdom of God evolved the institution of the church (in which
there was to be «neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, neither male nor female»); 3 this eventually developed into
Christendom.
Is she saying that those within
Christendom should question whether
there are «other paths to God?»
He suggests that:
there is a new mood in
Christendom, a more conscious, general recognition that though for Christians God...
Yet now all seems to have remained more or less as it was before: theologians still struggle painfully with their problems, their is still a bureaucratic administration which seems to prefer the letter to the spirit,
there is still no united
Christendom, but we are still divided, fearing and mistrusting each other on both sides of the fence.
To be sure,
there is the «hot, sweet Catholicism» of his aunt, the «stern and unyielding Calvinism» of the Presbyterian cook, the lukewarm Anglicanism of his boarding school («a religion that «Never Went Too Far»)-- all part of the warmed - over stew of a divided
Christendom long past its prime, of which only the «warm gravy of Catholicism retains a little flavor.
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.
It registered the fact that
there is a movement in the whole church for the unity of
Christendom which the love of our separate communions will not be able to suppress.
But it must be said, and as outspokenly as possible, that the so - called
Christendom (in which after a sort all men are Christians in a way, so that
there are just as many, precisely as many Christians as
there are men)-- it must be said that not only is it a wretched edition of Christianity, full of misprints disturbing to the sense, and of senseless omissions and additions, but that it has abusively taken Christianity's name in vain.
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.
At any rate
there has lived no one and
there lives no one outside of
Christendom who is not in despair, and no one in
Christendom, unless he be a true Christian, and if he is not quite that, he is somewhat in despair after all.
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.
Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keeps one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why
there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what
Christendom so portends
there to be...
There is nothing more holy» or terrifying» than reading what St. Catherine of Siena wrote about wayward clergy in her searing Dialogue; few sermons in
Christendom equal the power of St. Alphonsus Liguori's on the enticements of the world; and how many of us would have the courage of a St. Charles Borromeo, who, as he implemented the reforms of the Council of Trent, had his life threatened multiple times?
Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keep one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why
there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what
Christendom so potentially claims
there to be...
There's lively yeast at
Christendom and Wyoming Catholic, and not just at those places.
Since the end of World War II, however,
there have been alarming signs that it is not just
Christendom that is vanishing and not just Christian orthodoxy which is disintegrating.
It is no ingratitude toward my own family in
Christendom that I take delight in the fact that
there are about one hundred million of us!
If the context is seeing some change in a convert then yes
there somewhat used interchangeably in
Christendom.
The irony when I hear this is, WE ALREADY «KNOW»
there's «too much knowledge» it's the broken record heard across all of US
christendom.
Since Christianity existed for at least three centuries before the formation of
Christendom,
there is no reason why it should end at the same time.
There was no occasion for the Bible to have been officially altered throughout Christendom, but there was certainly occasion for the Koran to have been modified throughout the House of Islam, and records remain of old variants that testify to former vers
There was no occasion for the Bible to have been officially altered throughout
Christendom, but
there was certainly occasion for the Koran to have been modified throughout the House of Islam, and records remain of old variants that testify to former vers
there was certainly occasion for the Koran to have been modified throughout the House of Islam, and records remain of old variants that testify to former versions.
However, the Protestant Reformation was only partially successful, and
there were heavy costs — the fragmentation of
Christendom and, ultimately, its dissolution.
Certainly
there are some distinct differences between modern secular culture and the state of
Christendom out of which it has come, just as
there are great differences between traditional Christianity and the Judaism out of which it emerged, and of which it claimed to be the fulfilment.
Are
there practices and beliefs in our culture and among
Christendom that need to be corrected?
Although some Christians tend to feed rather liberally upon simplified religious adversities around different
Christendom valuations:
there is a marked difference within many chauvinistic male dominated Islamic sects...
There is no doubt at all that we find it in the historical
Christendom which abandoned the real futurist eschatology of the New Testament and internalized human salvation, at the same time banishing the future of God to a world beyond this one, so that redemption is no longer seen in the kingdom of God, the «new heaven and the new earth,» but now only in the saving of the individual soul for the heaven of the blessed.
On the one hand
there is an official and institutional form of Christianity seeking to be faithful to the beliefs and forms of
Christendom's past glory, and on the other
there is a secular, non-religious society which tends to assume that emancipation from all religious faith is part of the goal of complete secularization.
Lurking behind most ecumenical endeavors
there seems to lie the vision of restoring the magnificence of European
Christendom, though this time on a global scale.
Wherever the Christian faith has entered history,
there lies
Christendom.
There is even teenage high school fiction from a Catholic perspective emerging from the USA, with a group of graduates from the Franciscan University of Steubenville and
Christendom College writing under the name of Christian M. Frank.
This much at least may be conceded, that along with the academic tradition of detached secular study of religion,
there is growing in both
Christendom and elsewhere a religiously related scholarship of religious diversity.30 To some extent in the future these studies, it would seem, are to be carried out by religious people for religious people.
And as
there are such examples in
Christendom, so also in Judaism and Islam
there are pious men of thought who are free of exclusivism and who succeed in understanding the revelation of God in other religions.
There is No religious movement before and even until the Now Times where se - x-ual prominscuities and religious wealthiness did not permeate be it
Christendom or all otherly religions.
There is no better land or fairer nor people so honest, no victuals so good and savory, dress so handsome or manners so noble as here in our own
Christendom; and above all, we have the true faith, though ill it be kept.
«Where
there is treachery, where
there are more Judases than you have disciples, we want to have good disciples, we know that even in
Christendom when Jesus Christ have 12 disciples,
there was one Judas, but if the Judas were up to nine, then, Jesus could have been in trouble, the gospel would have been in trouble today.