Sentences with phrase «christianity in»

New Testament sources do not give us a full picture of the character of Aramean Christianity in Palestine.

L.W. Brown considers the coming of Christianity in Asia this way and he can not conceive of the possibility of the Gospel coming to the East independent of Antioch or some other centre in the west, nor can he think of an independent church in the East.

«And come here because you see the whole range of world Christianity in micro.

Tyagi Bill supported by the Prime Minister Desai restricting religious conversion and also the discrimination of scheduled caste converts to Christianity in the special benefits to people of the scheduled caste background, may be mentioned as violations of the covenant on the part of the State; and the Christian people have been unhappy at giving up minority communal safeguards and many efforts to organize Christian political parties off and on have been made in several states especially in the South by Christians.

The second view about the origin of Christianity in India is that Indian church was founded by Christians from East Syria during the course of the first three centuries.

Looking at the expansion of Christianity in the Parthian empire in such an early period, historians have raised the possibility that Arbela, the capital of Adiabene, if not prior to Edessa, could have been an independent focus, independent of Edessa, for missionary work throughout the Persian empire.

The Chronicle of Edessa mentions the names of Marcion, Mani, and Bardaisan as men closely connected with the spiritual past of Christianity in Edessa.

Catholic Christianity in the second millennium, from 1001 to the present times, has been Europe - centered.

Broadly speaking there are two views among the historians as to the origins of Christianity in India.

He offers a vision of Christianity in which no one has to lose.

According to Voobus we should discard the view that the beginning of Christianity in Mesopotamia was due to a process of the early expansion of Christendom developed in the general framework of Hellenistic Christendom.

One of the earliest centres of Christianity in Persia is said to be Arbel the capital of Adiabene.

(Stephen Neill, A History of Christianity in India, Cambridge University Press, 1984, p. 28.)

The earliest centers of Christianity in the East were: Edessa, Arbela in Parthia, and India.

So, the Vandals appealed to their form of Christianity in order to connect their evil (power lust) to the populace, and gain the support of their power base.

«The centerpiece of Christianity in the New Testament was the local assembly every Sunday.»

The conversion of the emperor Constantine made a very significant difference to the position of Christianity in social life and later in its teaching, organization and relationships.

As he freely mixed mythology and Christianity in his stories, might he also have mixed in some incredible experiences that would seemingly fall outside the boundaries of reality as we think we know it?

These pastors are falling right into Satan's trap, and every time one of them dies, it just makes Christians and Christianity in general look stupid.

But a misunderstanding of Christianity in Germany (and throughout Europe) that tied it to ethnic identity through historic anti-Semitism weakened the resistance of Christians to the allure of a much more vicious and hateful genocidal mentality when it emerged.

Historian Philip Jenkins of Penn State University believes the recent burgeoning of Christianity in the non-Western world could represent a seminal moment in Christian history, perhaps even world history.

For many decades there has been a militant form of atheism that regards religion in general and Christianity in particular as a virus that needs to be eradicated.

They could perceive the same tradition continuing within Christianity in theology.

Of course all of your posted opinions bash Christianity in one way or another or attack the Christianity the Bible teaches.

But to say all rational and reasonable people believe Christianity in its essence is a scam is a bit of a stretch.

I personally think that there will be a groundswell of christianity in the near future, but it's only it's swan song.

This «disintegration of liberalism» (November 8, 1933) emerged as one of the most important developments within American Christianity in the century.

Christianity in that sense is more than the nemesis of slavery; it is the nemesis, on the right, of hereditary privilege and natural entitlement, and, on the left, of ideologies of power and state absolutization.

(A History of Christianity in the World, pg.

Demythologizing among Buddhists is carried full circle by Zen — the position which has showed itself most open to dialogue with Christianity in Japan.

However, anti-theists don't mind lying about religion in general and Christianity in particular.

How can we read about this veneer - like faith and not shudder as we compare it to the broad, wide and often equally shallow thing that passes for Christianity in so much of our culture and in so many of our churches?

I often think the same thing, and wonder what would happen to Christianity in America if real persecution ever broke out here.

European and American scholars reflected on model changes in Christianity in different periods of its history: the early church and the patristic, medieval scholastic, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment periods.

Larger numbers moved to Christianity in such places and villages at once.

Dr Nick J Watson is senior lecturer in Sport, Culture and Religion at York St John University and will be hosting the Inaugural Global Congress on Sports and Christianity in August.

It has been the peculiar achievement of Western Christianity in the past to realize such an ideal in an organized spiritual society, which could co-exist with the national political units without either absorbing or being absorbed by them.

Christians who, knowingly or unknowingly, embrace the model of «Christ without culture» — meaning Christianity in indifference to culture — are captive to the culture as defined by those who control its commanding heights.

Strong feelings also attend the scholarly debate over the role of Christianity in the abolition of slavery.

Whatever the demands — and the promises — of Christianity in the West may be, they appear to have retreated more and more behind the altars of private life, even private imagination.

There was nothing of Christianity in what they did.

It is important that we do not completely reject the current expression of Christianity in the world.

Protestants respect the Cornerstone Community and the Fitzroy Presbyterian Church in Belfast, while the Centre for Contemporary Christianity in Ireland exists to provide resources and staff to «enable people to contribute to conflict transformation and reconciliation.»

I think everyone should have an open mind to all of these as well, since Christianity in it's young form is mostly based on more Ancient Religions such as some of these and others like Hinduism.

These (and other Christian activities to numerous to count) are good for the individual Christian and Christianity in general.

These folks have the Sunday - go - to - Meetin» definition of Christianity in there heads that is so wrong.

[7] Not only do conservatives identify mission with the «conversion» of the «heathens» to Christianity and the expansion of Christianity in the «heathen - lands,» but many of the relatively liberal Christians also comply with this understanding of mission, with the result that they perceive mission to be irrelevant for contemporary society.

Since the official validation of Christianity in the fourth century, ecclesiastical leaders have built places of worship in central and highly visible locations.

Your kind of judgemental thinking is the reason for the death of «evangelical» christianity in America.

In that framework, the principles related to specific local situations such as the history of Christianity in India can be articulated.