Sentences with phrase «christian edict»

To their surprise they found that this happened in High Middle Ages, around 1000 A.D. Intriguingly these strong selection pressures coincided with increasing urbanization and Christian edicts that enforced fasting and the exclusion of four legged animals from the menu.

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«Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages — the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity — are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.»

The Right - Wing Christian conservatives need to learn that lesson, before they impose their edicts on all..

Even if I accepted the premise that the Christian bible (in its present form no less) somehow represents the final word on God's will... it still does not reveal any such edict.

I am as leery of government by referendum as I am of government by judicial edict, though what's interesting here is that the radical pro-lifers may have doomed their own movement by failing so spectacularly in an extremely conservative, Christian - dominated state.

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

Alvin J. Schmidt, in his scholarly work «Under the Influence», states that in northern Africa Christians were already celebrating the birth date of Jesus as December 25 in A.D. 243, 30 years before Aurelian's edict.

The peace brought about by the edict helped the Christian community to re-organize its life.

In AD 409, the Persian king Yazdegard, by an edict of toleration brought an end, for the time being, to the persecution of Christians.

When he saw that the first edict was not sufficient to torture Christians, he passed another edict in 258 AD.

It seems probable that Nero's implication of the Christians in the fire of Rome was the first occasion on which such an imperial edict was specifically applied to Christians; once issued, the edict, put into force only sporadically and in particular regions during the next century, was to menace Christians with persecution whenever they grew strong or incurred the enmity of pagan or Jewish neighbours.

The law, which was drafted by the late Pope Shenouda III and is now under study, would allow Egyptian Christians to refer to their own religious edicts in matters such as marriage, divorce and inheritance, and would allow them to choose their religious clerics.

=== - ======= > typical Christian Taliban Madrassa and this Mullah passing on his edicts of hatred and bigotry < ====== - ===

If we can take the year 30 A.D. as the date of the historic beginning of Christian history and 313 A.D., the date of the edict of Milan, as the moment when Christianity was legitimized in the Roman Empire, then the first major chunk of history is in focus.

Can anyone pass edicts condemning christian terrorists in Uganda, from the Lords Resistance Army, a pentecostal cult that has been killing Ugandans and kidnapping children for years?

When Diocletian decided on measures against the Christians, the serenity with which this decision was implemented in the series of edicts after 303 AD.

The Edict of Milan promulgated by Constantine, the Emperor, brought the State apparatus at the disposal of the Christian Church.

Thus the not - really - an - Edict of Nicomedia and Elsewhere cemented into the foundations of the West ideas first sketched by the Christian philosopher Lactantius: that coercion and true religious faith don't mix because «God wishes to be adored by people who are free» (as Joseph Ratzinger would rewrite Lactantius a millennium and a half later, in the 1986 Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation).

In January 250, shortly after the edict of Becins demanding the universal acknowledgement of the gods through sacrifice, Cyprian went into hiding in an unspecified place near Carthage, believing that as a man of distinction he would, if he remained in the city, provide a focus for pagan hostility to the Christians.

A first edict in 257 for the first time banned Christian worship.

For what we know as the «Edict of Milan» marked the beginning the Christian Church's deep entanglement with state power.

Christian dating rules always seem to hit this one on the head with a range of edicts so let's not issue any ultimatums here.

This overwhelmingly «christian» congress represents an overwhelming «christian» nation has that: performs a million abortions a year, has out 40 % of births out of wedlock (approaching 70 percent in minority communities), has a Supreme Court that has ruled that virtual child pornography is protected by the first amendment, has a culture that teaches ever younger girls (through movies, music, tv, books and magazines) that their primary function is as living sex toys for men, forces religions to provide insurance to include abortifacients against their faith, and is rapidly redefining marriage by judicial edict.

The edict of Emperor Claudius in AD 42 was «Exterminate Christian Britain» — they failed.