Sentences with phrase «christians of a particular kind»

They were not just Christians, but Christians of a particular kind: Bible - believers or, more precisely, believers in the Inerrant - Word - of - God (preferably pronounced as one word).

Not exact matches

I have on occasion asked the congregation to join me in giving to a particular need: Tsunami in Indo., Katrina refuges, an orphange in Russian [not a Christian orphange either] those kinds of things.

If one is a Catholic Christian in particular, one can look at Christ's body on the cross to know the kind of self - gift you and I are called to.

But for the reader the volume lacks a sense of flow or unity because with each essay one has to determine not only how the Jewish writers are thinking of Christians and how the Christian writer is understanding Jews but what kind of Jew and what kind of Christian are being brought together in this particular chapter.

Of the nearly 90 percent who say they are Christian, the great majority specify that they are some particular kind of ChristiaOf the nearly 90 percent who say they are Christian, the great majority specify that they are some particular kind of Christiaof Christian.

Various kinds of Christian denominations and sectarian groups are looking into China openly or secretly to seek to convert the Chinese to their particular Christian faith.

«Christian students in particular should be bold in speaking up to oppose that kind of behavior because it goes completely against the model Christ gave us.»

I mean by «the Christian church» a particular type of community, a distinctive kind of human fellowship, an easily recognizable spiritual movement within our total historical life.

Seventeenth - century Anglican divine William Perkins argued that all Christians have two callings: a general calling to the Christian life and a particular calling to some kind of productive work.

There is in short a way of appropriating oneness that very effectively rules out any kind of diversity, dialectic, or even dialogue, and lends itself, for that purpose, especially to those persons and forces within the community whose power is great enough to sustain their own particular version of Christian unity.

Similarly, in some of the major jurisdictions of the Christian church, clergy are identified by particular kinds of dress or vestment.

By then, his continual studies in theology, psychology, science and cosmology had led him to a more universal, inclusive kind of spiritual worldview and practice which he continues to develop, with particular interest in Christian views and spirituality.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

While home schooling may have particular appeal to celebrities, over the last decade families of all kinds have embraced the practice for widely varying reasons: no longer is home schooling exclusive to Christian fundamentalism and the countercultural Left.