Sentences with phrase «christian pilgrimage»

The exhibition also features a series of new works depicting scenes from a fictive documentary following Plumita Lunes Nuñes, an orphan undertaking an ancient Christian pilgrimage in an existential pursuit to find her long - lost parents.

It is also the city described in the New Testament as the childhood home of Jesus, and as such, is a center of Christian pilgrimage.

Testud's paraplegic Christine arrives at the popular Christian pilgrimage site of Lourdes in France with the hope that God might intervene to help her rise up from her seat.

Trained as a Byzantinist, Dr. Vikan has published and lectured extensively on topics as varied as early Christian pilgrimage, medicine and magic, icons, the Shroud of Turin, fakes and forgeries, neuroscience and aesthetics, and Elvis Presley.

According to him, the ministry has set up two separate committees namely, Planning and Screening Committees, to oversee the operations of Christian pilgrimage in the country.

The general significance of Jerusalem to Christians outside the Holy Land entered a period of decline during the Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire but resumed again c. 325 when Emperor Constantine I and his mother, Helena, endowed Jerusalem with churches and shrines, making it the foremost centre of Christian pilgrimage, see also Constantine I and Christianity.

Stephen H. Webb is author of Dylan Redeemed and The Divine Voice and is currently working on The Cross and the Singing Bowl: A Christian Pilgrimage into the Healing Properties of Sound.

The Christian pilgrimage is a joint adventure; but to last, in my opinion, it must always remain an individual one for each of us.»

But, the writer adds, all previous consciousness of God disappears in the process: a most unpleasant sensation, since by this time along the Christian pilgrimage God is the soul's single desire.

Movie star, activist and self - proclaimed «radical Catholic» Martin Sheen's new film is about a popular Christian pilgrimage.

This was certainly a worthwhile endeavor, but was it Christian pilgrimage?

It explains why they built the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the most important Christian pilgrimage site in the world, in Jerusalem, right above the place where they believe Jesus rose from the dead.

A lesson focusing on Christian pilgrimages to Iona and Lourdes.

Their building is attributed to King Lalibela who set out to construct in the 12th century a «New Jerusalem», after Muslim conquests halted Christian pilgrimages to the holy Land.

The Way of St. James was one of the most important Christian pilgrimages during the Middle Ages, together with those to Rome and Jerusalem, and a pilgrimage route on which a plenary indulgence could be earned; [5] other major pilgrimage routes include the Via Francigena to Rome and the pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

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Ray, but yet it is the majority of christian responses in here that suggest mass murder of innocent worshipers during their pilgrimage?

Since then, their Christian - Hindu interfaith adventure has included a sex - free Indian ashram honeymoon, austere religious pilgrimages, dietary compromises, deciding when and where to worship, and fights about prayer.

Pilgrimage began: first the Christian King from his toehold of Northern territory in Asturias, and, as Spanish Christians slowly reconquered their homeland they invoked Santiago Matamoros, who had appeared to aid them in the battle of Clavijo.

In Pilgrim's Progress when Christian sets out on his pilgrimage he leaves his wife and children behind in the city of destruction because they will not come with him on his road to the celestial city.

«Christians understand the importance of making a pilgrimage - it is a time of deep significance for those making the journey.

No complete system of Christian faith is yet possible, for the Church is still on her pilgrimage.

: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America — a fantastic book that is part - memoir, part investigative analysis.

Many Christians traveled to Jerusalem on pilgrimage and at the time difficulties were being put in their way.

While this claim can not be historically proven beyond doubt, it is certain that we are looking here at the mortal remains of an early martyr whose burial site was a place of reverence and pilgrimage from the first days of the Christian era.

God promises never to abandon the Christian in his pilgrimage towards Heaven, but not that the path ahead will be made clear to him before he walks it.

Canute, a devout Christian, made a pilgrimage to Rome and ordered his subjects to learn the Lord's Prayer and to go to Communion at least three times a year.

He is also a board member of the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) and the director of racial reconciliation pilgrimages for the Pacific Southwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church.

Christian scripture depicts the end of the human pilgrimage as a heavenly city, the New Jerusalem; and the relationship between this world and the next was articulated paradigmatically for Christians in the fifth century in St. Augustine's classic The City of God.

Having begun with the quest for God, Percy's Christian humanism comes, at its worst, to value the pilgrimage more than the Shrine.

I recently read Charles Foster's book, The Sacred Journey, which, according to the back cover, is a book about calling Christians to go on a pilgrimage.

In his book, he calls Christians to go on a literal pilgrimage.

In his journal Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697 he wrote: «The Latins take a great deal of pains to expose this ceremony, as a most shameful imposture, and a scandal to the Christian religion; perhaps out of envy, that others should be the masters of so gainful business; but the Greek and Armenians pin their faith upon it, and make their pilgrimages chiefly upon this motive.»

Webb - Mitchell believes that pilgrimage is the richest paradigm for describing Christian growth: «The length and breadth of the Christian life is a pilgrimage and... it is through the actual practice of pilgrimage that we may best understand the experience of growth and change.»

In what is perhaps the last classic Protestant treatment of sanctification, Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, Christian is converted one sixth of the way through the book and the balance is devoted to his pilgrimage.

When asked why other Christians should follow his example and tour the Holy Land, Welby answered: «A pilgrimage here is the most marvellous opportunity for reflection on the common truths that all Christians hold that bring us before the face of Christ.

But now the original sense of pilgrimage as a concretely physical spiritual practice is being recovered by broad sections of the Christian community and by people beyond the church's walls as well.

Indeed, most people find that talking about their pilgrimages and their beliefs as Christians is itself a means of grace that enhances: and strengthens the faith they already have.

The Christian interpretation of man's pilgrimage in time can not be put into a simple parallelism with these political philosophies.

Finally, we shall state the key concept by which a Christian conception of history can maintain fidelity to the facts and yield a more sobered but still hopeful view of the long pilgrimage of man.

One would think that a Christian Prince from a church in Idaho would make a pilgrimage to the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, now a World Heritage site & the Church of the Holy Sepulchre *, Jerusalem, built by the Christian Prince, Constantine!

As Randall Stewart pointed out nearly half a century ago, Hawthorne's lifelong literary models and companions were the great Puritan moralist - seers Spenser, Milton, and Bunyan, and of the eighteenth - century writers, the great Augustan Christian humanists, especially Dr. Johnson, whose boyhood home in Lichfield Hawthorne visited on what must be called a pilgrimage of veneration.

We have reviewed, then, two ways in which the Christian mind has tried to grasp the infinite mystery of the human pilgrimage.

The devotionof the Seven Churches, in fact, brings together various of the themes we have already discerned in looking at St Philip's methods: it was distinctively Christian and prayerful, allowed for healthy exercise and good spirits alongside its primary purpose of pilgrimage, and was a practical way of getting ordinary young men out of danger's way at a time of potential spiritual hazards.

The Jews are willing to fight to drive others out of Jerusalem, the Christians endured dangerous pilgrimages not to worship, but to fight the Crusades to take the Holy Land for their faith, they tortured to «convert» infidels, and they fight amongst themselves (Protestant v. Catholics in N. Ireland, for instance); The Muslims declare «jihad» against their version of «infidels,» and they fight wars between Shia and Sunni over who should set the rules.

The Jewish and Christian Bibles frown on religious behaviour (fasting, almsgiving, prayer, pilgrimage, correct theology) not backed by spiritual behavior (love, joy, peaceableness, faithfulness, honesty, humility, self - control).

An analysis of how a church converted to the world nevertheless could remain distinguishable from it occupied George Webber's God's Colony in Man's World.16 He conveyed images, which other works later amplified,» of pilgrimage and poverty distinctly Christian yet subordinate to society at large.

Are parishioners urged to invite others to services, pilgrimages, groups and talks as part of their everyday Christian lives so as not to miss what may be heaven - sent opportunities?

Prayer, the Church's banquet, angels» age, God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, The Christian's plummet sounding heaven and earth.

A number of Christians have died during one of the largest annual pilgrimages in Latin America.

Karl Barth, in his 1939 report to the readers of The Christian Century on «How My Mind Has Changed,» wrote the following concerning his theological pilgrimage during the 1930s: «In these years I had to learn that Christian doctrine, if it is to merit its name and if it is to build up the Christian church in the world as she must needs be built up, has to be exclusively and conclusively the doctrine of Jesus Christ - of Jesus Christ as the living Word of God spoken to us men.»