Sentences with phrase «christian missionary»

The confetti, or conpeito, more than likely gets its name from konpeitō, a Japanese sugar candy that originated in Portugal after a flask of it was presented to Nobunaga as a gift from a Christian missionary in the early sixteenth century.

Constructed by builder Chris Heininge, a former Christian missionary, this tiny home was inspired by Heininge's time spent in small but well - designed Japanese dwellings.

Vénard is known as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam, executed there for his Christian missionary work in 1861.

The Book of Strange New Things By Michel Faber Hogarth • $ 17 • ISBN 9780553418866 The author of the best - selling Victorian novel The Crimson Petal and the White explores faith and commitment in this far - future story of a Christian missionary sent to evangelize the residents of a distant planet.

Starting out in that fateful year for religion, 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews and the Muslims from Spain and opened virgin Christian missionary territory in America, Armstrong tells the story of fundamentalism in the world's great monotheisms and argues that it is as much a product of modernity as the materialism and empiricism against which it fearfully reacts.

Did the book change your opinion of Christian missionary work, or your opinion of anthropology?

Paradise: Faith (Unrated) Second installment in the Ulrich Seidl trilogy revolves around a Born Again, door - to - door Christian missionary (Maria Hofstatter) whose life is turned upside - down when her long - lost Muslim husband (Nabil Saleh) returns to Austria from Egypt after a long absence.

Also on the Island is Dr. Davidson (Jose Ferrer), a Christian missionary who is there to check up on the status of his work which his father began.

By the late»60s, he had also moved into production work, producing and starring in Bill Wallace of China (1967), the story of a Christian missionary.

Inevitably and paternalistically, the federal government and Christian missionary organizations descended on the South to «Yankee - fy» the schools.

Nate Saint (Chad Allen) is a pilot and Christian missionary who, with his family, lives and works in the jungles of South America near the Amazon.

I do Christian missionary work in Africa.

You may have already known that this holiday was named after a Christian missionary / Bishop of Ireland.

No attempt to «reconstitute» Q has succeeded in making of it a well - arranged «handbook», although there are signs of a rough general arrangement by subjects, (Cf. T. W. Manson in The Mission and Message of Jesus, pp. 3 f.) and these subjects seem to have included those most vital for Christian evangelism, the Substance of the Christian Life, Principles of Christian Missionary Propaganda, Defence of the New Religion against Jewish Attacks, Expectation of the Judgement.

Then a Christian missionary came and across the lines of caste and race extended his good - will, so that, when the first church was founded in Seoul, butchers were on the Board of Elders.

Those who succumb to that temptation often seem to be dismissing the Christian missionary mandate itself.

In the twentieth century, Christian missionary work in China has had to contend with the changing and difficult political situation.

Four centures after the first known Christian missionary in Nepal, Portuguese Jesuit Juan Cabral, Nepalese Christians remain a persecuted minority.

«However, there hasn't been any recorded modern instance of Moloch worship» --------- Let's go do some Christian missionary work sometime and you'll see it first hand.

Though the murder of the Staineses is by far the most prominent of Singh's crimes, he and his associates are also suspected of involvement in the August killing of a Muslim trader and of Christian missionary Arul Doss.

Update (Mar. 15): Morning Star News reports that Ezzat Hakim Attalah, the Christian missionary who died while being held in jail in Libya last week, likely died as a result of torture.

I'd be curious how you would have changed if you were a Christian missionary in India who gave up your ideology but were surrounded by Hindus and safer to morph very differently.

Another Christian missionary is being transferred from Liberia to the United States after he contracted the deadly Ebola virus.

A Christian missionary who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa has addressed American senators... More

In admitting the Christian missionary from these motives, the inward meaning of the faith could easily be missed.

I was born into a family of christian missionary grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins.

The first 170 pages are an exposition of Islam by a Western writer with scarcely a phrase to which a Muslim could take exception, and the rest of the book is a guide to Christian missionary work with Muslims, with which they have little sympathy.

And he asked the Christian missionary for a favor.

All of the prophets and disciples throughout the Bible hold great importance but the most influential Christian missionary is the Apostle Paul formerly known as «Saul of Tarsus».

It may be that the expansion of democracy depends upon the expansion of the Christian missionary enterprise around the world.

«I think that marks her out as a very, very significant Christian missionary and someone who hasn't fully been recognised in the passage of time.»

The confusion of a proximate, churchly, with the ultimate, divine, context and the attendant confusion of goals, lies at the heart of many dilemmas in which the Christian missionary enterprise is involved in its dealings with the adherents of other religions.

Based on a true story first told in an ESPN magazine feature, Queen of Katwe tells the story of a Christian missionary (played by David Oyelowo), who teaches Uganda children living in slums to play chess.

As in Lycaonia and at Athens, the Christian missionary has first of all to convince his hearers of the meaninglessness and futility of idolatry, idolatry which meant not only the actual worship of images of the gods but also the whole range of pagan religion.

The Christian missionary proclaimed God's moral demand before baptism but he continued to proclaim the demand afterwards, since there was nothing automatic about baptism.

This is an old heresy and you; Sergo Jean; the Christian missionary and Romney should know better.

Indeed when my friend Professor Seshagiri Rao, a distinguished Hindu scholar, was asked to address an international Christian missionary conference, he began by saying, «I speak to you as a fellow lover of Jesus Christ...»

Jesus reiterated it, and the life of every truly Christian missionary exhibits it.

In August 1549 the Spanish Jesuit Francis Xaviér (1506 - 1552) became the first Christian missionary to land in Japan.

A perfect counter-example is Hinduism, which by construction is more spiritual than religious — it's adherents do not have strict rules or norms, and there is incredible diversity of norms within one umbrella (some who believe in caste system, even though a large majority of urbanites study in Christian missionary schools; some who believe cows are sacred though 2/3 of Indians are actually non-vegetarian).

I will not review all of the attempts to link this group of missionaries with other figures in the early Christian missionary movement.

Why don't you go do Christian missionary work in NW Pakistan?

The great period of evangelism and Christian missionary expansion was the 19th century.

Apart from academic specialists, American interest in Islam has been limited largely to people concerned about the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East, or to friends of Israel who want to understand their enemy.

If that is true, then that needs to change, lest Americans be given the impression that the U.S. Congress is a Christian missionary organization.

1747) to the beginning of the present century, during which time Islam was introduced by the Sufi orders in competition with the Christian missionary work of the Protestants and Catholics.

Everyone «knows,» for example, that Galileo, courageously defending Copernicus» discovery that the earth revolves around the sun, was roundly condemned by the Inquisition because his conclusions conflicted with the Bible; and everyone «knows» that the history of Christian missionary endeavors is inextricably linked with Western colonialism and oppression of native peoples.

These outreaches have garnered the most attention from the government, which at times has identified Christian missionary activity as a security threat.

... my Christian missionary father who stashed emergency - reference copies of Dr. Dobson's The Strong - Willed Child throughout my childhood home,

North Korea has arrested another Christian missionary — this time a 75 - year - old Australian on his second trip to the country.