Sentences with phrase «christian cultural revolution»

The cover of the August 1996 Atlantic Monthly announced a Christian cultural revolution: «Giant full - service churches are winning millions of customers with [their] pop - culture packaging.

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They talk about how during the Cultural Revolution, the Christian population in Wenzhou actually grew many times over.

Persecution was most intense during the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), years when Christian faith could become a death warrant, as it was for Chinese pastor Wang Zhiming, executed in 1973.

After the communist revolution in 1949 and especially after the cultural revolution, the Christian Church in China suffered much; in fact, many thought that the Christian Church in China had come to an end.

The illusion that Christian institutions can survive based on unspoken assumptions of shared beliefs has been shattered by cultural revolution and legal transformation.

I am a Christian, I did not like the fact Perry had the meeting at Reliant Stadium, or the comments made to Mitt, but as an older person, which you are probably not, you do not remember the Khmer Rouge or the Cultural Revolution or the bread lines in Russia, or the purge of Eritrea and Tigre (just a few) atheistic oppressive societies with little hope or caring.

And this figure does not include the uncountable number of Christians who are still identified with China's mysterious «underground church»: believers who worshiped secretly during the Cultural Revolution and who still have not all surfaced.

In the late 1950s the Chinese Church entered a unique period of post-denominationism which strengthened the fellowship of Christians from all over China so enabling us to go through the trial of fire during the Cultural Revolution

The main theme of the Conference was, «Christians in Technical and Social Revolutions of Our Time», and its purpose was to look at the problems of the modern world in technological revolutions as it affects the economic, political and cultural life of the peoples, communities and states and to consider the challenge and relevance of theology to the social revolutions of our time.

Christian congregations in particular have skyrocketed since churches began reopening when Chairman Mao's death in 1976 signalled the end of the Cultural Revolution.

This witness and theology also played a significant part in the social, legal, cultural, and economic incorporation of the negative image of Jews and Judaism into the fabric of Christian culture from the time of the first anti-Jewish legislation at the Council of Elvira (306) until the time of the French Revolution (in the West)(see many of the above, especially FF).

After the cultural revolution in China, I had several opportunities to visit China and to talk with Christians who survived that terrible event.

Christians, like many others, suffered severely during the Cultural Revolution, but in recent years there has been quite a rapid growth in numbers of both Catholics and Protestants.

Our problem, of course, is that we're not dealing with «erstwhile pagans,» but with Christians who, under the influence of the cultural revolution Hanby describes, have adopted a pagan cast of mind.