Sentences with phrase «christian mythology»

In his often grandly scaled works, Kiefer intertwines a complex range of subjects, including alchemical treatises; Nordic, Greek, Egyptian, and early Christian mythology; and mystical Jewish texts, often relating such subjects to modern, particularly German, history.

Developed in Japan by Takeyasu Sawaki, one of the character designers on Devil May Cray and Okami, and released Stateside by Ignition Entertainment, the game attempts to do for Christian mythology («El Shaddai» means «God Almighty» in Hebrew) what the God of War games did for Greek mythology.

Heck, even the stories share many similar parallels (with Darksiders trading God of Wars Norse mythology for a more Christian mythology).

She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Lit degree from the University of Georgia, which gave her every valid excuse to devour book after book with a concentration in Greek mythology and Christian mythology.

Using «Christian mythology» to explain what should have a more rational discussion is simply backwards.

If this wasn't a problem for them, society has shown itself able to accept kids named after beings from Judeo - Christian mythology.

Mind you, I said proof, not the Jesus Fables or other writings of Christian mythology

(My fiance and I enjoy discussing many different mythologies, including Christian mythology as literary works, but she seldom initiates discussions of the latter.

They have noticed that when you remove god and traditional Christian mythology from some forms of service, the people are actually coming back!

The emergence of the new world, with its increasing secularization, has brought about the dissolution of the medieval Christian mythology.

You're talking about the Christian mythology guy.

If you'd been born in India, you'd be trying to make an argument for the Hindu pantheon instead because you'd have been brainwashed from birth to believe in THAT mythology instead of the Christian mythology.

If you're born in the West, you're indoctrinated practically from birth to believe in Christian mythology.

But you were born in the West so you've been brainwashed since birth into believing in Christian mythology.

If you had never heard of a god or gods and suddenly someone started preaching Christian mythology to you, you'd think they were out of their mind!

Besides for the Noah story, where in Christian mythology has humanity been brought close to extinction?

But before we can see this, we must let go our hold of that traditional picture of Jesus which Christian thought and devotion has built up over the centuries and which reached its climax in the Christian mythology of the Middle Ages.

The Christian mythology does not stand up well to critical thinking.

The majority of the elements that make up the Christian Mythology can be grouped in three broad clusters corresponding to the birth, the life, and the death of Jesus of Nazareth.

So why can't this man teach Christian Mythology without being a Christian, provided he is well educated in the subject?

There is no difference between Greek mythology and Christian mythology.

Find something better to do with your time than to debate ancient christian mythology.

While King does sometimes draw on Christian mythology (what Western writer can avoid that?)

The three points of the triangle represent the Christian mythology of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Not exact matches

This excerpt notwithstanding, its a bit of a stretch to call hitler a christian; he had his own mythology which he loosely tied into christianity, but he also destroyed churches and murdered christian leaders who opposed him.

One such mistake is where the bible dips into Greek mythology, yet christians have no idea it's even in there.

It doesn't take any «digging around in the bin», only a familiarity with history and mythologies other than the Jewish and Christian ones.

christians laugh at other religions / mythologies but actually believe their zombie lord came back to life after 3 days of rotting in a cave.

(c) a Christian who has just read that collection of Iron Age Palestinean mythology we call the «Bible»; or

Suffice it to say that nobody believe the Bible story of creation except Christians (and fundamentalist Jews and Muslims, to the extent they share the same mythology).

Let's base 21st Century social policy on some totally discredited Bronze Age Middle Eastern mythology that is not even original to the Christian religion we hope to foster by it.

Honest christians would simply declare they entertain this mythology because it makes them feel better about themselves and the world, and that if you roll in this mythology, you can feel better about yourself and your world too.

It's whole mythology blinds the Christian to the obvious and traps her into a legalistic framework with a vengeful god who demands a blood sacrifice.

Especially those outside of Christianity who believe every Christian holds to heart the mythology in it.

WASP, all religions are based on ancient mythologies, but there really are Christians and other religions.

Hitler started off as a christian and eventually combined christianity with faux Norse Mythology.

David L. Miller, recently reviewing my book The Chickadees in The Christian Century (May 22), has suggested that, as in ancient Greece, «there are two paths in our time, alternative mythologies for a period of crisis: up and out (the rational, heroic, masculine way), and down and in (the mad, mystical, feminine way).»

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

What you and the author miss is that justifying the first graph of Genesis with this science, does not reconcile the rest of the christian book of mythology.

Did you know that the Chronicles of Narnia were written by Christian theologian C.S. Lewis, and were created as «mythology» to present Christian principles in another form?

To the mind steeped in the mythology of secularism» and, while some still deny it, the antireligious bias of the major media has by now been documented beyond reasonable doubt» Baptists, Catholics, and others who are assertively Christian represent the religious oppression from which the enlightened are only tenuously liberated.

Pagan customs and Greek mythology have long been used by so called Christians.

A lot of christians don't even seem to buy into their own mythology.

Less than half of the world's population believe in your god: you're saying that over half of all mankind can't possibly be moral because they aren't followers of Judeo / Christian / Muslim mythology?

Even the comparison of the mythologies of the various religions will help him to understand more clearly the significance of the myths of the Christian tradition.

If this aspect differed in kind in the case of Jesus from every other member of the species man, then in the present state of our knowledge it would seem impossible rightly to describe Jesus as a man.17 It may be the case that most Christians (and most Christian theologians) in most centuries have accepted this claim: but most have not shared either our modern sensitivity to the difference between history and mythology or our concern for the principles of logic.

I think he's getting a very good idea on how fast and harsh christians will judge someone who doesn't continue chanting the same magic spells and talking about the same mythology as they believe.

For it seems to me that, despite his equating of myth and mythology, in the final analysis, his own incurable and inalienable involvement in the Christian mythos impels him to make a distinction between the two.

Just because the christian bible spurred our ancestors to read doesn't make their mythology omportant today.

Affirming the goodness of human beings as found in traditional Chinese mythology, his theology states that Christians must applaud the quest for the infinite wherever they find it, even in such expressions as the Way of China's ancient Taoism.