Sentences with phrase «christian identity groups»

It is not surprising, therefore, that months after the Oklahoma City bombing journalists still have difficulty describing suspect Timothy MeVeigh's relationship to the Michigan Militia and to Christian Identity groups.

Not exact matches

Although the Indian constitution guarantees that religious groups may propagate their faith, Hindu nationalists claim that many Christian organizations engage in coercive proselytism, especially among the Dalit classes, in a calculated «anti-India» effort to pollute national identity.

The men belonged to the Christian Identity Movement, according to the federal complaint, and said the arson gained them honor among the group's other members.

Not the haburah fellowship meal celebrated by a group of Pharisees; no such meal existed (J. Jeremias, Eucharistic Words of Jesus [1965], pp. 30 f.) Not the Qumran communal meal anticipating the «messianic banquet», for all that this may have influenced the Christian practice, because that is simply a special meaning given to the regular communal meal at Qumran, whereas our evidence indicates that the Christian practice was something out of the ordinary which the early Christians did and which helped to give them a special identity.

«Reconciliation and Struggles for Identity of the Different Christian Communities and Groups in India» in Reconciliation in India, St. Paul Press, Bombay, 1983.

Spirituality in its generic sense may be reinforced by these groups, but the evidence that a specifically Christian identity is being nurtured is less compelling.

Proclaiming «form follows function,» modernism heralded the death of ornament, yet ornament in many Christian traditions is essential to worship and group identity.

Although I have no doubt about my own Christian identity, there are ways of distinguishing bvetween groups of thinkers in which I would be classified with these Pure Land Buddhists and separated from many Christians.

Cari fears that there seems to be a misunderstanding of the identity of prostitutes, with some Christian groups seeing prostitutes as a homogenous group.

The challenge before us is to navigate the hyphen and be prepared to explore our varied histories, discover the outside forces, question the economic compulsions, be astounded by the cultural diversity, empathise with the experience of marginality, marvel at the memories that have shaped all these various selves, and offered, and continue to offer us, an identity or identities across the hyphen, as the various embodied selves that make up the assorted group of people who are called Indian - Christians.

The curriculum they suggest, along with participation in the community of faith, is designed to shape Christian identity by an intense study of how groups and individuals created themselves as Christians as they responded to felt needs and wrestled with issues of ultimate significance in their age just as we do in ours.

Much of the time Mathews wrote as though changes in doctrinal formulations and group practice do not affect a deeper level of Christian identity.

The idea, in short, is that the same principle that suggests Christian students should be allowed to form groups with particular identities also means that Vanderbilt has a right to corporately discriminate against student groups at odds with its values

During the exercise, neither group questioned the identity of God or sought to distinguish a Christian God from a Muslim God.