Sentences with phrase «christian saints»

★ Mary Carlson: «paradise» (through June 21) Mary Carlson's wonderfully soulful little porcelain sculptures in this show represent Adam and Eve and various Christian saints.

Ahearn's distinctive technique is derived from traditional plaster life casting and is greatly influenced by the artist's longtime collaboration with his assistant Rigoberto Torres, whose uncle worked in a factory that produced traditional plaster statues of Christian saints.

An exhibition of contemporary bas relief sculpture by Jedediah Morfit depicting contemporary Afghans and late - Gothic Christian saints.

The trail leads him to a village on the border with Turkey, a stone's throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains - a place of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where every spring, possessed by Christian saints, men and women dance barefoot across live coals in search of rebirth.

Leo is Latin for «lion,» and it was the name of many early Christian saints and several popes.

In its breadth and depth this meditation on love measures up to the universal intercessory prayer which is firmly rooted in Christian liturgies as well as in the individual prayer of the great Christian saints.

15:28) and promulgated by the great Church Fathers of the East, Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa, and professed by many Christian saints in opposition to popular dogmatics.

The Christian saints compete with Buddhist and Hindu saints in their love of animals.

«high places,» where these ancient deities were worshiped, still have their lineal descendants in Palestine, often doubtless identically situated, in the local shrines of Mohammedan and Christian saints.

It is required of Christian saints that they die as they lived.

This message reminds me so of today's saved Christian saints, they do ask God to forgive them of their sinfull nature, but they want to move on to the next level when Gods says no, you need to go back and finish your previous calling before you can move on.

Furthermore, when ministers get discouraged and seem to be accomplishing nothing, again and again their hearts are warmed by the fidelity of those laymen — perhaps only one or two in a congregation — who can always be depended on, who see at least partially what the minister is driving at, who in an unpretentious way are genuine Christian saints.

In some theological ideas, the ocean of good works comes from great men and women of the past, either the Israelite forefathers or the Christian saints, whereas in common «Evangelical» theology, the source of good works is Jesus Himself.

It's not a happy thought, that a leading textbook in intercultural communication is accompanied by an instructor's guide that suggests having students undertake an act of symbolic communication of a kind that early Christian saints went to their deaths as martyrs rather than commit.

It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accept the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.

Poetry fills the services, with poems by Christian saints like St. John of the Cross -LRB-» «What is grace,» I asked God.

It was great Christian saints, such as Chrysostom, who contributed most to the anti-Judaism that has poisoned so much of our history.

Although those contemporary theologies which stress the persistence of sin even in the best Christians have a note of truth which rightly challenges complacency about the redeemed life, it is also true that there are Christian saints who attain to a very high measure of the God - centered faith and love portrayed by Jesus.

Seeing the lives and examples of the Christian saints; along with understanding the dignity of the human person and the intentions underlying its practices, Christian asceticism provides a clearer and more holistic view of the human person.

Is there anything to learn about the body from the Christian saints and their practices?

«The Christian saints throughout the centuries attested to this as they stammered to explain what happened in prayer for them.

«Solar imagery came increasingly to be used to portray the risen Christ (who was also called Sol Invictus), and the old solar disk... became the halo Christians Saint.

In Haitian voodoo, African - origin deities «walk with» the Virgin Mary or another Christian saint, the venerated person having two cultural sides.

The problem is that there is a difference between the self - interested moralism of a good citizen and the transformational unconditional / kenotic love of a christian saint.

Hindus call them mahatmas, Arabians abdâl, and Christians saints, but they are usually ignored during their lifetime.

The choice of Assisi, a town in Central Italy, as the venue is certainly not for its access to an airport: It is chosen as the home town of St. Francis, the beloved Christian saint whose generosity of spirit and constant striving for peace are exemplified in a remarkably amicable encounter he had with Egypt's Sultan Malik al - Kamil in the midst of the Fifth Crusade in 1219.

«One of the most astounding facts of the history of religions,» Max Müller points out, (Will Hayes, How the Buddha Became a Christian Saint [Dublin, 1931] p. 7) is the admission of Buddha to the Roman calendar of saints.

Researchers told the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet that they had uncovered an intact temple and burial grounds below St Nicholas church in the province of Antalya, where the 4th century Christian saint is believed to have been born.

Dutch settlers in 17th - century New Amsterdam (New York) brought with them the legend of Saint Nicholas (Sinter Klaus), a 4th - century Christian saint from Turkey known for his generosity to children.

Most agree the Christmas stocking tradition pays tribute to St. Nicholas, the Christian saint of ancient times known for his generosity and gift - giving to those in need.

St. Anastasia, also known as Anastasia of Sirmium and Anastasia the Pharmakolytria or Deliverer from Potions, is a Christian saint and martyr who Hi, I have a proof, that Anastasia Dating is a Scam.

St. Anastasia, also known as Anastasia of Sirmium and Anastasia the Pharmakolytria or Deliverer from Potions, is a Christian saint and martyr who

Simcha checks out the cave and learns more about this major Christian saint.

Part of Los Angeles County, Santa Monica is named after the Christian saint, Monica and has a population of 90,000.

Familiar face: Influential Belgian artist Francis Alÿs, who lives in Mexico City, has collected depictions of the fourth - century Roman Christian Saint Fabiola for nearly 25 years.

The city is named after the Christian saint, Monica.

Not exact matches

When Yves Saint Laurent began selling shoes with red - laquered soles, Christian Laboutin saw red.

And yet in this deeply Christian, extravagantly post-Christian nation of ours, a number of sincere believers find the life of Christ and his saints somehow compatible with the sterile, preening, sub-adolescent egoism of Objectivism.

Either we prove several verses in the Bible that deal with the gay issue are false; we declare, like the Pope does, infallibly that those pages will be struck from Bible; we add new verses so the other verses are neutralized; we stop reading it, prohibit its usage, like Catholics, and have: idolatry, Popes, idols, saints, priests, infant baptism, purgatory and gays in the «christian church»!

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I ask this for three reasons: 1) Warfield begins the chapter with Edward Gibbon's conversion to Catholicism, which was related to Gibbon's belief in the continuation of the miraculous; 2) he spends several pages in the same chapter critiquing another famous convert to Catholicism, John Henry Newman, noting what he sees as Newman's shift toward the miraculous; 3) even though he knows that Gregory of Nyssa, Athanasius, and Jerome all wrote about saints in which the miraculous was prominent, he still makes the claim that these «saints» lives» follow other Christian romances and thus represent an infusion of Heathenism into the church.

The monastery's publishing program has had more success, with more than a hundred new titles each year, covering all areas of church life: Christian spirituality, church history, Scripture, church music and arts, Orthodox ascetic practices, monasticism, liturgy and church prayer, and the lives of the saints.

Sylvania, for example, was «erudite and fond of literature» (a kind of patron saint for female seminarians); day and night she read the ancient Christian commentators, three million lines of Origen and two and a half million lines of Gregory, Basil, and others.

Out of the rest: Let's have fun, it's Saint Flatulous of the Methanicous on the Sulfidicus River's day, double that for Christians for 2.4 billion (ALSO «good Catholics», overall).

Heresy can be defined as any departure from Christian orthodoxy which is a teaching, doctrine or practice that goes beyond the apostles teachings — the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3).

Many of the slides in the 43 page presentation use a Christian justification for war, displaying pictures of saints like Saint Augustine and using biblical references.

Choose a saint or a Christian you deeply admire to «guide» you through the Lenten period.

Now that we know something of these other religious communities and their quality of the lives they engender, we can not suppose that a gracious God would punish their saints for failure to join the Christian church.

Todays «Christians» worship the Father / Son / Holy Spirit & Catholics, Mary & soo many «saints».

Presented in a conversational format, in which Shane and Tony essentially talk through what it means to be «red letter Christians,» touching on everything from violence, to community, to Islam, to sexuality, to liturgy, to saints, the book is highly practical and, as always, incredibly challenging.