Sentences with phrase «european christendom»

The medieval gallery includes textiles, sculpture, painting, and metalwork from European Christendom; a video kiosk explores the relationships between medieval art and music.

The church itself accumulated, and sometimes flaunted, wealth in European Christendom.

In fact, the church as it has been known to us through European Christendom is destined to die, and we must let it die.

Or, to put it in another way, while the traditional establishments of European Christendom were at the level of form, ours have been at the level of content.

Lurking behind most ecumenical endeavors there seems to lie the vision of restoring the magnificence of European Christendom, though this time on a global scale.

The old pattern of European Christendom with its complementary roles of state and church is fast disappearing.

European Christendom already appeared to be in....

Updike shares the optimistic 19th - century vision of America as a free - riding nation which is not saddled to the worn - out nag of European Christendom.

Thus, modern economics, like the modern business economy, is not the dubious result of a secular Enlightenment, but the fruit of European Christendom and the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages.

European Christendom already appeared to be in terminal decay, and Kierkegaard's main purpose as a writer was to awaken his readers and to convince them of the necessity, and difficulty, of radical Christian discipleship.

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«Christendom» not only did not decline from this time, but with its famous doctrine of cuius regio, eius religio, its underlying logic received powerful, official sanction, and it has continued on in the fragmented territorial or «state churches» of the emergent European nation - states.

Nor have I anything to say about cultures or peoples who have not suffered the history of faith and disenchantment we have, or who do not share our particular relation to European antiquity or the heritage of ancient Christendom.

Coupled with the staggering deChristianization of the traditional European «homeland» of Christendom, the shift is enormous.

Protestant leaders of the sixteenth century were unaware of the fact that primitive European man not only did not naturally possess the sense of Christendom but that Christendom was the complete antithesis of life as the primitive European knew it — the complete antithesis of his devotion to tribalism and his passion for piracy.

Yet it manifests many of the values and ideals of western Christendom (partly because this new civilization was fostered by the spread of European culture).

Narrow and constricted as it was, the order supplied to the European peoples by primitive Christendom, that premature construction of a supposed City of God on earth, may have seemed better than the chaos of a war of all against all.

So it is a matter of plain fact that Christianity molded what came to be called Europe (whose original name, after all, was «Christendom»), but to say so does not by itself tell us whether that shaping of European culture through the medium of Christian ideas was a good thing or a bad thing to begin with, let alone whether those ideas speak to us now.

The easy assumption that the Church was just as it should be was never universally accepted, but central and western European society, «Christendom», had come to be based on a majority consensus that it was.

During the following three centuries, Western Europeans thought of themselves as French, German, Spanish, and English rather than as denizens of Christendom.

In this book — and its sequels — a form of medieval Christendom has been extended beyond the earth, bringing along with it all of the hierarchies and power politics of the European Middle Ages.