Sentences with phrase «christian fervor»

I posed in my 2015 Sundance review of The Witch, «What do 1630, a silver cup, Christian fervor and a goat named Black Phillip have in common?»

St. Bernard of Clairvaux contributed greatly to the Christian fervor that led to crusades against the Muslims in the Holy Land.

Christian fervor did not decline gradually.

Beginning with the Reformation, however, different forms of Christianity competed with one another, and much of Christian fervor was devoted to supporting one form against others.

Not exact matches

The Republican party realized this religious fervor of unquestioned belief and has used it to their advantage beginning with the Christian Coalition in the mid 1990's.

Why do Christians just conveniently forget these passages in their fervor to condemn others with whom they don't agree?

I can't remember the last time I saw or heard a Christian talking about feeding the poor or helping widows with the same amount of fervor that they discuss the 2nd Amendment.

What Meacham observes instead is dwindling fervor for the notion that the U.S. should be governed by certain interpretations of the Bible or by Christian theology, an approach common among evangelicals.

True, some of these theologians, speaking from another point of view, declare that «Christians must bring Christian social fervor to the social revolutions of our time.»

My point was in fact a comparison with the fervor that Saul persecuted the Christians believing that he was preserving what he believed to be the truth.

Growing up in the ebb of the social gospel, but in a denomination in which that ebb lasted a long time, I can testify that on the whole the persons I encountered who had the greatest fervor about reforming society were also those who seemed personally to be the most devout Christians.

From its birth, the Christian Church has counted among its members people possessing vastly different levels of certainty and fervor.

Religious fervor creates the will to live the Christian life in all its ramifications.

Jews who view with alarm the signs of Christian revival do so because, Kristol says, they incorrectly believe that if and when Christians embrace their own faith with greater fervor, this will be harmful to the Jews.

In a world where so many Christians are nominal in their commitment to Jesus Christ, how necessary it is to call them again to the fervor of their first love!

Writing with critical fervor in I Corinthians, the apostle Paul reminds his readers that Christ's resurrection, in its fullest expression, is eschatological, a word spoken in the future; when Christians claim its fullness prematurely, he argues that word becomes illusory and destructive.

St. Paul's admonition to Timothy rings with the hard ascetic fervor that one has come to think of as distinctively Christian.

Religion is above all devotion, and the intensity and fervor of the devotional life of India's saints must put many lukewarm Western Christians to shame.

But most likely the year 2000 will come and go, Gone will be the fever and fervor of Christian mission that has taken hold of some of us.

In his book, The Timeless Christian (1969)-- written at a time when there was even more revolutionary fervor in Church - related commentary — Erik von Kuehnelt - Leddihn showed how believers could be attentive to their times, without sacrificing their perennial Christian beliefs.

However, to the author's point, we as Christians grieve the Lord when we argue for 2nd ammendment rights with the same — or even more rabid — fervor than sharig the good news of Jesus to those around us!

Adapted by Richard Christian Matheson, directed by Mikael Salomon and starring Maria Bello, Olympia Dukakis and Joan Jett, it has been marketed with all the fervor that a marriage between Stephen King and Lifetime would seem to demand.

Having a vivid interest in color, structure and volumetric line drawing, the artist's iconography is drawn from modernist architecture, Christian religious fervor, and the adolescent imagination that glamorizes one's own beliefs.