Sentences with phrase «christian civilisation»

Anyone concerned about the condition of the perennial philosophy, or the future of Christian civilisation, ought to read it.

The crusades were fought in defence of Christian civilisation.

Paradoxically insights into the dignity of women in our civilisation flowed from the fact that it was a Christian civilisation imbued with a recognition of the dignity of the human person.

They should be seen as a call to Catholicism as it considers how to save Christian civilisation:

Not exact matches

Yesterday Christians went to pray with Muslims at the town mosque, where they said the two murderers were not were not part of Islam, civilisation or humanity.

The «Christian religion» has not been the concience and hope of any civilisation, not even Western.

In a book called «On the Road to Civilisation, A World History» (Philadelphia 1937) it said, «Early Christianity was little understood and was regarded with little favour by those who ruled the pagan world... Christians refused to share certain duties of Roman Citizens... they would not hold political office.»

The general working theory for Christian missionaries was first formalized in St. Augustine's doctrine of «cognite intrare», or «compel them to enter», but was perhaps best summed up by J. C. Warner some 1500 years later: ``... the sword must first — not exterminate them, but — break them up as tribes, and destroy their political existence; after which, when thus set free from the shackles by which they are bound, civilisation and Christianity will no doubt make rapid progress among them.»

His predominant theme is the rise of a liberal model of civilisation which he traces from Protestantism, with its «rejection of the normative significance of tradition in the field of Christian dogma» (p. 6), followed by the Enlightenment, which placed an absolute value on the individual.

Thus modern science is built on Christian foundations, and this explains why there was no science as we know it in any of the ancient civilisations ofantiquity.

We need to reclaim the Christian roots of what is good in Western civilisation and be much stronger in our own defence of sexual and social morality, especially when engaging in discussion in the public forum.

These plates were said to be inscribed with a Judeo - Christian history of an ancient American civilisation.

«For the educated person can not play his full part in modern life unless he has a clear sense of the nature and achievements of Christian culture: how Western civilisation became Christian and how far it is Christian today and in what ways it has ceased to be Christian»

That is why the crusades, despite their failure, can be considered one of the outstanding achievements of the medieval Church... As long as Christianity endures on earth, as long as there exists a civilisation from which Christian principles have not been wholly banished, there will be men to treasure these pages of sanctity and heroism, inscribed by the crusaders with their blood.

Where Plinio Correa de Oliveira focussed on an enemy which put itself forward in open hostility towards the Church and civilisation as traditionally understood, Trower takes aim at a vague, ill - defined and chameleon - like philosophy which is hard even to identify clearly, a philosophy which does not really have a name, a philosophy which is frequently embraced by Catholics and other Christians all unawares that it is not compatible with their faith.

However, because this very civilisation, at least in England, is removing its Christian foundation, it is removing the coherence of its vision of rights.

If in the ruins of Rome, St. Augustine dreamed of a civilisation that should be the City of God on earth, and penned, even while weighted with despair and expectation of the end of the world, the noble outline of the Christian order which inspired so much of mediaeval thought, how much more reason have we today, with so much greater resources, to expect for our civilisation a resurrection out of our decay.

The equal dignity of all human beings, the freedom of the act of faith as the root of all the other civil freedoms, -LSB-...] are likewise central elements of the Christian Revelation that continue to model the European Civilisation.

The Christian foundations of our civilisation have been jettisoned as outdated and unnecessary by a large portion of our society but most especially by the political classes.

Then gradually a new civilisation arose in the Middle Ages, a civilisation permeated by Christian beliefs.

As Saint John Paul often declared, Christians today are called on to be «signs of contradiction» (rather than signs of the kind of unvarying conformity with «progress, liberalism and modern civilisation» which you will find in the pages of The Tablet and of Cornwell's books).

That is why the crusades, despite their failure, can be considered one of the outstanding achievements of the medieval Church... As long as Christianity endures on earth, as long as there exists a civilisation from which Christian principles have not been wholly banished, there will be men to treasure these pages of sanctity and heroism, inscribedby the crusaders with their blood.

His tolerance for dissent and his secularism, his commitment to the Oriental - Christian culture as part of a common larger Oriental - Islamic civilisation, and his «integrity as a Christian» member of it, as well as his scholarship, made him an eminent personality and also a contact person for Islamists and the secular, for pan-Arabists and nationalists as well as for the right and the left.

The review also called for more emphasis on Australia's Judeo - Christian heritage, the role of Western civilisation in contributing to Australian society, and the influence of the country's British system of government.