Sentences with phrase «christian allegiance»

He reportedly spoke of himself in conversation as a Christian, and in his writings he occasionally seemed to express a Christian allegiance.

How did Christian allegiance become a matter of Roman law and, even more importantly, an offense for which one would joyfully die?

Closer attention, however, should have been paid to the question of why men like Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, and Polycarp of Smyrna labored unceasingly to foster and preserve Christian allegiance to Christ's ecclesial representatives on earth.

The theory of evolution, and the church's failure to appreciate it, became one of several factors, which have helped to bring about that decline in active Christian allegiance which has so marked the last hundred years.

This means that every adjective whereby an institution wishes to qualify itself (including its Christian allegiance) must represent a quality that is openly and unapologetically appraised and solicited in every recruitment process.

Some Christian leaders have even rejoiced in the dissolution of a Christendom that allowed, or perhaps encouraged, an excessive degree of nominal Christian allegiance: the impact of modem secular society has challenged people to make a conscious choice about whether they are either for or against Christianity.

People born in recent decades have no first - hand experience of what active Christian allegiance was like at the beginning of the twentieth century, when practically everybody in the western world other than Jews claimed to be Christian.

The first sharp difference of opinion is documented in the New Testament — it was the difference between the original (or Jewish) form of Christian allegiance to Jesus Christ and the Pauline (or Gentile) form.

In 1900 it would have been absurd to suggest that Christian allegiance was in any decline, for the opposite appeared to be true.

Although this decline in Christian allegiance, occurring mainly in one century, is quite sudden relative to the length of the Christian era, it has been sufficiently slow and unspectacular relative to a person's lifetime that most churches have, until recently, been hardly aware of it.

Christian allegiance is itself suffering from a deep malaise.

In doing so, however, Christian allegiance became even more personal, inward and subjective.

Many church leaders have flatly refused to acknowledge any decline at all in Christian allegiance.

This effort to reign in overt displays of Christian allegiance is reported to be a part of a larger movement, initiated by the Chinese government, to increase restrictions on religious gatherings.

Widespread renunciation of war would go far toward persuading both church and society of the fact that «the Christian allegiance is to a sovereignty which transcends all other sovereignties» (May 30.

In a very short time he effectively privatised Islam, in much the same way as Christian allegiance has become slowly privatised in the West.

The problem with Christmas Spirit theology is that it endorses a virtually exclusive Christian allegiance without any wider basis for articulating and legitimizing that allegiance.

Nor is it the great God, immaterial and changeless, of all the «omni's» of centuries of Christian allegiance (omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent).

In later life he will not be as free as we often think him to be to make a favorable response to the claims of Christian allegiance.

You object to any Christian using «the Church» or «the church» to denote his or her own communion, because it implies claims of authenticity or continuity that are impolite to those of other Christian allegiances, and because it is derogatory to the notion of a «universal church.»

Not exact matches

An American Christian aid group reported that the U.N. camps are «dangerous» places where ISIS, militias, and gangs traffic in women and threaten men who refuse to swear allegiance to the caliphate.

On the theological level, it was now assumed that despite Christian worship of the Trinity, the ultimate object of Christian worship and allegiance is the God who is creator of heaven and earth.

Except for the vulgar allegiance of what McGinn calls «Fundamentalist Christians,» «the legend» of Antichrist no longer captures the imagination: «Most believing Christians seem puzzled, even slightly embarrassed by Antichrist, especially given the legend's use in fostering hatred and oppression of groups.»

We know from their actions of today how Christians think they're being «persecuted» if they can't festoon their religious holiday decorations all over everybody's property and make everybody else recite Christian prayers at all public occasions or stamp their theology on our money and insert it into our pledge of allegiance.

Boko Haram — a group that has terrorized Nigeria for years — has pledge allegiance to ISIS and regularly targets Shias, Christians and those who oppose their radical ideology.

scot I think you should drop your allegiance to the Christian god and take up with the Wizard of Oz, at least the Wiz maybe able to grant you a functioning brain!!!

Christians must discern the limits of their earthly allegiances.

But their primary allegiance is to the supernatural and living faith embraced by orthodox Christians for almost two thousand years.

Similarly, a black theology of liberation or a feminist theology of liberation may, like the university theology its proponents criticize, be little more than ideological expressions of autonomous political movements that owe no fundamental allegiance to the Christian vision.

Giving all other powers their due and their respect, we Christians can not as a matter of total confidence or supreme trust embrace the flag, support the government, or pledge allegiance to the country for which they stand.

This is a brilliant idea that encourages churches across the country to hold communion services on the evening of November 6 so that Christians of all political affiliations and denominations can «share this sacred act of communion together, reaffirming our allegiance to Christ.»

How such theory is formulated is important to Christians, but this essay is focused on economic theory and the consequences of our having transferred our allegiance from political theory to economic theory.

This lovely idea is meant to bring Christians of all political and theological persuasions together, united in the common bonds of love and in a shared allegiance to Jesus Christ above all earthly kings and kingdoms.

Every Christian is a citizen of this new world order, this kingdom with no end, we live our lives in light of this truth and it effects our worldly interactions and supersedes our earthly allegiances.

On the other hand, I want as well to share faith and Christian hope with these people, to avoid shutting off genuine interpersonal encounter and my own self - disclosure because of any false allegiance to psychotherapeutic norms — and I doubt that empathy alone constitutes such a sharing.

A few christians have told me that their true allegiance is to God, not the United States.

The ultimate allegiance of Christians is to Christ and the Church, which is universal.

The story of the virginal conception is not a marvel of biology, but an early Christian narratival confession of faith in and affirmation of allegiance to Jesus.

If the church's theology were informed more by biblical expectations of a redeemed creation and less by general religious longings for ecstatic experience and timeless truth, Christians would find themselves at the very least congenial toward those who, with a passionate «loyalty to things» and a «cosmic act of allegiance,» struggle to unpack the secrets of life on this planet and to work with it toward a new day.

Eliot believed a state of tension would, and probably should, always exist between church and state, and that individual Christians would feel a dual allegiance.

When Christians say that «Jesus Christ is Lord,» meaning that since nothing else can command our total allegiance, the state and the government are not Lord, they are saying what Jews declare when they give assent to the first commandment: «You shall have no other gods before me.»

But regardless, I do know that the Roman Emperors required citizens to swear allegiance to himself and to the Roman Empire in much the same way we do today, and many early Christians refused, instead swearing allegiance to Jesus as Lord.

So early Christians paid the price for not swearing allegiance to another man; so why would modern christians swear allegiance to an idea, government, or a piece of cloth that isn't eChristians paid the price for not swearing allegiance to another man; so why would modern christians swear allegiance to an idea, government, or a piece of cloth that isn't echristians swear allegiance to an idea, government, or a piece of cloth that isn't even alive?

I say to you candidly, as I have said before, I have never found a man, be he Methodist or be he non-Methodist, willing to contribute to our work here who has not endorsed a liberal Christian policy in the administration of affairs... I have never denied our Methodist allegiance, I have never denied our Methodist history, but I have maintained that, greater than Methodism was the cause of Christ and that the call for service in His name was greater than the call to the service of the Church.

If this is correct, then the distinctive essence of Christianity can best be seen in terms of the structure of Christian existence, and it can best be compared with other claimants for our allegiance at this level.

This country started to lose it's way in the 1950's when it started forcing christian values into everything, including the pledge of allegiance!

Something of a new cult, that has been called «scientism», developed in the popular mind, which reflected how popular opinion had switched its allegiance from Christian orthodoxy to science and technology.

Or, to put it differently, that evangelicals better understand that, in the long tradition of Christian fidelity, including martyrdom, allegiance to Christ of course takes priority over any other allegiance.

There is another school of thought that dismisses such personal likes and dislikes as irrelevant to allegiance to a church, the lone legitimate Christian fellowship, all the more virtuous if you find some of your fellows insufferable.

As C. S Song explains regarding Taiwan, «Christians brought to trial because of their allegiance to Jesus have changed a military court into a court of testimony!»