Sentences with phrase «christian martyrs»

In London, England, above the Great West Door of the renowned Westminster Abbey, are the statues of 10 Christian martyrs of the 20th century.

Yuan Li's expertly made «A Tragedy in China» is in the tradition of David's «The Death of Marat,» a depiction of a French Revolution casualty that's modeled on earlier paintings of Christian martyrs.

In the late 1970s, back when Abramovic and Wilke were strutting their stuff and Miriam Schapiro was working with Judy Chicago at Cal Arts on the Womanhouse project, Chicago set places for fertile goddesses, Christian martyrs, and mystics along with more modern icons.

A teacher asks you to spend a considerable amount of money for access to an online database of biographies of Christian martyrs for her Church History class.

The film was hugely successful and widely praised in its time, though it's really nothing more than the old C.B. De Mille formula of titillation and moralizing — Roman orgies and Christian martyrs — with only a fraction of De Mille's showmanship.

In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture warriors.

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While other notable days are treated depending on the weight they pull, February 14 — a day named after two Christian martyrs named Valentine, who were executed by Roman Emperor Claudius Gothicus -LSB-...]

For us they were the equivalent or early Christian martyrs.

The resurrection is the presupposition of the cross, as Jürgen Moltmann has recently reminded us.3 Without the resurrection, Jesus» execution is no different from the crucifixion of countless Christian martyrs after him, or the stoning of the prophets before him.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A biographical account of many Christian martyrs through the centuries, some not well known in the West.

Firstly, unlike other martyrs we see that no trials were given to the Christian martyrs by the court, as in the case of Joseph Mukasa who was straight away ordered to be killed.

Christian martyrs did not hurt others in their martyrdom, they had nothing to gain... which was the surprising thing to the government leaders.

Christian martyrs went against their government and allowed themselves to be killed not for reward, but because they were forced to choose between denying God or denying their life, and they chose God over their life.

Where does religious persecution rage, killing uncounted Christian martyrs, until the survivors think they hear the souls of the slain crying from under the altar, «O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long?»

Prayers of the Martyrs compiled and translated by Duane W. H. Arnold, foreword by Madeleine L'Engle Zondervan, 122 pages, $ 12.95 A beautiful collection of prayers of Christian martyrs arranged for devotional purposes.

It declares there have been some 70 million Christian martyrs in history, and more than 45 million in the 20th century.

In evangelical circles one often hears the claim that there were more Christian martyrs in the 20th century than in all previous centuries combined.

In fact, the missionaries viewed the resulting persecution in the positive light of early Christian martyrs.

«Roman was the universal community — and countless CHRISTIAN martyrs died because they would not embrace the universal community of Rome's morality.»

Small wonder that Blessed John Paul, shot in a crowded St Peter's Square in 1981, recognised himself as the Pope in this vision: the vast numbers of Christian martyrs of the bloodstained 20th century were epitomised here, with Mary's plea for prayer and penance echoing authentically across the ruins of so manycities in two world wars and other conflicts.

In many ways it constituted the prototype for the books of Christian martyrs, and Origen regarded the story of the seven brothers as a wonderful pattern for Christians to follow.

The heroism of Christian martyrs had been an important factor in converting Tertullian to Christianity.

Indeed, Pope Francis's action is particularly welcome this year, the centennial of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, in which 600,000 to 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, including many Christian martyrs, lost their lives.

Recent studies show that Islamist extremism is the church's greatest threat, with the number of Christian martyrs almost doubling from 4,344 in 2014 to more than 7,000 in 2015.

Christians who honor the Jewish dead of the Holocaust are «making them into honorary Christian martyrs» as if forcibly converting them after death.»

He made conversion easier by substituting festivals in honor of Christian martyrs in place of the old pagan festivals.

Tomorrow, on April 29th, Rome's white marble Trevi Fountain — its swirling waters and the charging baroque statues of Oceanus, his sea shell chariot and attendant tritons and horses — will all be turned blood red in a campaign to raise awareness about modern day Christian martyrs.

Moss says ancient stories of church persecution have created a contemporary cult of bogus Christian martyrs.

Some estimates place the number of Christian martyrs in the 20th century at 100 million.

The blood of Christian martyrs such as Perpetua became «the seed of the church,» said third - century church leader Tertullian.

The author IS CHRISTIAN, and we have actual evidence for the Holocaust... Christian martyrs... not so much.

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

I can't believe Prof. Moss dares to say there are only 6 reliable accounts of Christian martyrs, because the Romans kept good records.

It created All Saints» Day, a festival on November 1 that celebrates Christian martyrs.

* sigh * people have known for decades if not centuries at least that the numbers of Christians martyred was exaggerated.

So I doubt many will take her views seriously, since the fly in the face of what we have learned through the years about such Christians martyrs as Jim Elliot (speared to death by the Aucas and yet his son went back to be a missionary to them, because he LOVED them, something she might want to consider).

By the second century, Roman soldiers were bringing their new faith to Britain, and in the middle of the third century St. Alban became Britain's first known Christian martyr, but we don't know much more about who these Christians were, and it is here that Malcolm Lambert begins in Pagans and Christians: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede, producing a captivating narrative by squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical record.

Had Judas been confronted with the challenge «Deny the Messiah or die» only a few weeks earlier, while still hoping Jesus was the real messiah, he would probably have been the first Christian martyr.

For a year I shall serve purely as a deacon, an office set up by the first apostles to serve the community, as recounted in chapter 6 of the Acts of the Apostles; read on and you'll learn how the first deacon, Stephen, quickly also became the first Christian martyr.

The first Christian martyr was «Stephen, a man full of faith».

For some Germans, particularly those in the former German Democratic Republic, Bonhoeffer was a Christian martyr.

(Judges 16:28) Between this petition and the prayer of the dying Stephen, the first Christian martyr, «Lord, lay not this sin to their charge,» (Acts 7:60) lies a long road of ethical ascent.

The Christian martyr often died with spirited passion, completely unnerving to Socratic dispassion.

Should Stephen, the first Christian martyr, have shut his mouth when he saw the Lord in His glory?

Watch Saul of Tarsus holding the clothes of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, while the crowd stones him to death.

The tomb of the first Christian martyr may have been located in an excavation just west of Ramallah.

There is a big difference between a Christian martyr and a jihadist.

[26] «This account gives us a rare insight into the thoughts of a Christian martyr and an even rarer insight into the experience of a woman in the early days of Christianity.»

These numbers deserve more scrutiny than can be offered here, but it should be noted that the Encyclopedia treats every victim of Stalin as a Christian martyr and says there were 1 million «Jewish Christian» martyrs in the Holocaust.