Sentences with phrase «christendom who»

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.

Of course, Wesley was preoccupied with bringing the gospel to those within Christendom who had not appropriated it.

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.

Not exact matches

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!

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.»

Catholics, who had tolerated a degree of ethnocentrism within the Church, learned from Hitler that national idolatry was Christendom's deadliest foe.

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.

Yes, you are correct that the religious leaders of Christendom gave their blessing to its members to kill others «in the name of Christ», such as Catholic Dominican inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada (1420 - 98) of Spain, who ruled tyrannically for 15 years (1483 - 98, with the blessings of Pope Sixtus IV [who praise him for «directing his zeal to those matters that contribute to the praise of God»] and Innocent VIII) and saw that over 114,000 (of which 10, 220 were burned at the stake) people were put to death.

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.

Sounds like a book to prop up the livelihood built into Christendom for those who use it as a job.

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.

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.

The challenge for those of us who've left Christendom to seek a more free flowing spirituality is to not enter the «religious rivalry spiral» but to lovingly disengage like our teacher Yeshua.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The strong, the real «doers» in Christendom have been those who relied solely on the work of God, and not those who trusted much in human activity.

It will not be easy to stop accommodating Christendom and start accommodating both bothersome faith movements — which are the enemy of complacency — and nettlesome, nonconformist leaders who pursue vision quests and new religious practices with passionate intensity.

Therefore it is certain and true that he who first invented the notion of defending Christianity in Christendom is de facto Judas No. 2; he also betrays with a kiss, only his treachery is that of stupidity.

For Christendom in earlier times the Church was the plank of salvation in the shipwreck of the world, the small barque on which alone men are saved, the small band of those who are saved by the miracle of grace from the massa damnata, and the extra ecclesiam nulla salus was understood in a very exclusive and pessimistic sense.

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...

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.

Basically, we have a bunch of parasites that benefit on the moral structure created by Christendom, who now pretend to destroy it, and civilization with it.

After I wrote The Next Christendom in 2002, I had a bizarre encounter with an elderly and rather aristocratic Episcopal woman, who praised me for how effectively I had delineated the growth of new kinds of Christianity in the global South, with its passion and enthusiasm, its primitive or apostolic quality, its openness to the supernatural.

As someone who preaches both «the gospel on the ground» (how Christ came to save individual sinners) and «the gospel in the air» (how Christ came to redeem all of creation), he may be well positioned to take a Reformed church - planting movement to new corners of Christendom.

He was unable to impose a solution because, he said, in a letter to the Pope: «The Protestants are more unyielding and more obstinate than ever — while the Catholics are generally lukewarm and but little inclined to lend a hand in the forcible conversion of those who have fallen away... the welfare of Christendom absolutely requires a Council.»

«The order of society» (in mediaeval Christendom), writes David Edwards, «was at bottom upheld by religion... It was God who decreed the acceptance of the rights and duties of each grade in society.

And every time someone taught something that differed from what a prominent church leader taught, it became a showdown for who was right, with the winning side got to write a new paragraph into the ever - expanding Creeds of Christendom.

It was one of the earliest triumphs of «the weaker brethren,» those innocent sheep who by mere volume of imbecility have trampled over many delicate and attractive flowers in Christendom.

Be thankful for the secular humanists who have largely tamed the beast of Christendom.

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!

The best - kept secret in Christendom is that the Spirit who is already present in our lives strains to free the cornucopia of gospel blessings that the illusions of discipleship keep stopped up.

Like the saints of Christendom, television's heroes are identifiable and continuing characters who, while participating in our human situation, also successfully overcome its abrasions, anxieties and threats, thus reinforcing the integrity of the system.

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.

Everywhere (And such is now the case almost everywhere in Christendom, which, as it seems, either entirely ignores the fact that Christ Himself it is who so frequently and with such heartfelt emphasis warned against offense, even at the end of His life, and even when He addressed His faithful Apostles who had followed Him from the beginning and for His sake had forsaken all — or maybe silently regards this as an extravagant apprehension on the part of Christ, inasmuch as the experience of thousands and thousands proves that one can have faith in Christ without having noticed the least trace of the possibility of offense.

Nevertheless, those who were most admired in Christendom were the saints, most of whom led lives of voluntary poverty.

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.»

Those of us who sat at the feet of Sidney E. Mead, as I did at the University of Chicago and as Bozeman, Hughes and Allen did at Iowa, heard him saying what he wrote in 1956 about «the tendency chronic in Christendom, but perhaps more acute among Englishmen, to support every contemporary innovation by an appeal to «primitive Christianity.»»

«As Christmas is the marking of the coming of the messiah by christendom, this is the best time to seek God's intervention to send a leader who would save this country as APC administration has failed the people woefully.»