Sentences with phrase «christianity as»

The crux of personal Christian character is at this point, for if believing what a Christian ought to believe and calling oneself a Christian makes no difference in one's personality or behavior, Christianity as a whole is bound to be discredited.

Christianity as it is practiced, currently epitomised by the politically active religious - right, is anything but loving, understanding or forgiving, except for members of its own little tribe.

Atheists have free speech too... how come we can not look at Christianity as the insensitive notion, at least atheists are not out to make money with their beliefs.

If people come to believe in God, I think it's unlikely because of Christianity as a whole.

Much like Hitler used Christianity as his motivating force printing «Gott Mit Uns» on their military garb, but in reality was only using it to control the masses, Stalin and others used the lack of religion or anti-religious sentiment to control.

I understand that every interaction you have with someone with a «Christian» label on themselves will shape your view of Christianity as a whole, but I would encourage you to keep in mind that the negative experiences often aren't representative of the whole, and that they will be much more memorable to you than perhaps dozens of interactions you have had with Christians who treated you well.

Forget «Christianity» for a moment — Christianity as a system of ideas competing with others in the market; concentrate on the place in the world that is the place of Jesus the anointed, and what it is that becomes possible in that place.

But it is the heart of Christianity as a belief system.

Thus China laid the groundwork for a disenchantment with Christendom that led me 30 years later to hope for the end of cultural Christianity as the enabling condition for the development of a diaspora Christianity.

Because women are as equally vital in Christianity as men.

-- I would recommend books by Josh McDowell and John Warwick Montgomery as starters on the quest to know and understand the valuable evidence that exists for Christianity as well as Judaism.

It is impossible to understand the Western tradition without studying the role of Christianity as something beyond «power dynamics.»

If one is representing Christianity as a believer, it will not be enough simply to describe what has been done in the past.

This means that «we are led to embrace the idea of Christianity as a religion without religion... as tradition that is always prepared to wrestle with itself, disagree with itself, and betray itself.»

He gets closest to tying down the «richness» of vision to which he frequently appeals by using Lewis» famous epitaph: «I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else» (p. 65).

The Christian culture critic Ken Myers, editor of Mars Hill Tapes, rightly describes popular Christianity as being «of the world, but not in the world.»

Marxist ideologues too began «to describe the founder of Christianity as a quasi-mythical primitive communist».

We have memories of Sunday school and Bible camp; an early suspicion of adult Christianity as hypocrisy; a sense of complicity between church and dancing school — both drawing on a common list of acceptable folk and equally mad about white cotton gloves.

From the beginning Barth was deeply interested in the reality of creatures and their acts, and he conceived of Christianity as concerned with the active fellowship between God and creatures.

Second, I suggest, the popular understanding of Christianity as it functions in the public arena is now more legalistic than ever.

Also, along with Hegel, he considered Christianity as the absolute religion which synthesized in itself all the religious tendencies which the history of man had manifested.

Once that infrastructure is in place, there is little doubt that the subject of world Christianity as the unique legacy of the modern missionary movement will make its long - overdue impact and channel back some of its revitalized energy into the necessary transformation of our preCopernican historical universe.

The understanding of Christianity as a real transformation of man's existence, if on the one hand it impels philosophical refection towards a new approach to religion, on the other, it encourages it not to lose confidence in being able to know reality.»

Despite the Unification Church's ambiguous self - designation as «Christian» and its desire to unify all religions under a single ideology which it also designates as in some sense Christian, Principle finally sees Christianity itself as an impediment to the work of the Lord of the Second Advent.

I have a friend who is in a political party that goes under the banner of Christianity and seeks to transform society by applying Christianity as a political platform.

As I recall there was a debate in once class I was in as to whether it was OK for a convert form Islam to Christianity as to whether using the term «Allah» for God was OK.

It is impossible to understand Christianity as a whole, or the resurrection of Jesus in particular, until we have come to terms with what the crucifixion did to Jesus, and what it challenges us to do.

Christianity as a whole has lost status in the culture.

Tying MMA into a sermon is as incompatible with Christianity as comparing following Jesus with soldiers attacking an enemy combatant.

Or more precisely, he is willing to regard the bulk of his book as «irrelevant» to his thesis that there is something about Christianity as practiced today that is inherently off - putting to masculine men, and so won't bother to defend it.

@Chris - it could have something to do with what is known in Christianity as the Great Commission.

So we are delivered from the «imitation of Jesus» type of theology and from that kind of reductionist thinking which interpreted Christianity as «following a great prophet» and nothing more.

They have perceived Christianity as a list either of teachings to be believed or of enjoyable ways of behaving to be avoided — not as a way to experience God.

Does not Christianity as much as any position live or die according to the validity of its truth claims?

I'm confident the Ja - panese will put them to good use and that they will successfully resist christianity as they have done for hundred of years.

The one fact that is important to notice about Matthew's gospel is its strong emphasis on Christianity as a new law.

A Wesleyan vision, then, practices a ressourcement of the spiritual streams of historic Christianity as a way of promoting and advancing holiness and thereby renewing the churches.

Furthermore, thanks to the work of a hundred years of biblical study, we no longer regard Christianity as simply «developing the content of the founder's teaching.»

Stung by the criticism that he offered an interpretation of Christianity as an interpretation of religion, he moved from The Essence of Christianity to The Essence of Religion and, later, to his Theogony According to the Sources of Classical, Hebraic, and Christian Antiquity (1857).

The starting place for such a discussion is the recognition that the reforming impulse and the ecumenical impulse converge on the need for a ressourcement of historic Christianity as the way to affirm catholicity.

Perhaps mormonism will replace christianity as it fades out in the centuries to come.

Whenever someone like the Fort Hood shooter commits an act of terror we are lectured on not jumping to conclusions, and not profiling, blah, blah, blah... But when someone who does such an act so much as passes within a thousand miles of a Christian, then the media labels him as a murderer and condemns Christianity as a whole.

Buddhism, as the culminating achievement of India, lies side by side with Christianity as an alternative mode of human realization.

And, alas, the fate of this word in Christendom is like a motto for Christianity as a whole.

For example, Christianity as a religion has many denominations and they all believe they are right and they follow the same Bible.

I know that there are all kinds of problems with Christianity as an enterprise; however, there's another image of the church that I see very often that bothers me more even than the image of the church as an enterprise, and the model that comes to me again, and again and again as I am working with congregations, is the image of the congregation as the Junior League.

They experienced Christianity as its consummation as well as its correction.

Christianity as we know it is evil and far removed from anything the Bible teaches.

If Judaism is discredited, why not Christianity as well?

In a stroke then» and without the need to marshal any reasons» the Court could pronounce the traditional moral teaching of Judaism and Christianity as empty, irrational, unjustified.