Sentences with phrase «radiant life church»

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For if anything is clear to the average modern Christian with even a casual knowledge of the New Testament, it is, first, that «radiant» is hardly the word he would think of to describe his own religious life or that of his contemporaries, and secondly, that no other term characterizes so well the life of the primitive church.

Their confidence in his continued life turned their dismay at Calvary into triumph, and without it some of the most characteristic elements in the New Testament — the radiant hope and joy of the whole Book, the Christ - mysticism of Paul, the shining reality of the eternal world in the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the enthusiastic acceptance of sacrificial hardship exhibited by the early church — are inexplicable.