Sentences with phrase «roman authority»

They quite obviously wanted to replace what they imagined a corrupted Roman authority with the purified authority of true doctrine and scriptural preaching.

Pilot was not known to be an author and a record of him as a Roman authority in Palestine has only recently been found.

Messianic pretenders in Judea were a dime a dozen during the time the Jews were under Roman authority.

Following the Reformation, Roman authority and the Catholic faith were firmly reestablished in neighboring Austria, yet to this day magnificent Protestant churches survive all over Hungary» and are full on Sunday.

He uses the phrase «the theatre of the national pornography of the Roman state,» to describe public executions, and goes on to give an analytical example where «the rending of flesh in public could be linked to the bravery exemplified by a woman in her confrontation with Roman authority, and simultaneously, to a language of love.»

The Romans did not distinguish, and indeed they could not; for them, all these movements were suspected as hostile to the Roman authority.

The eyewitnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus — those who ate, drank, spoke with, and listened to the Lord Jesus Christ after His Resurrection — were so convinced of the Good News of God's Love, Forgiveness, Peace, and Healing Power for all humanity revealed by the Risen Jesus Christ that these eyewitnesses were willing to die as martyrs for their belief in the Risen Christ as fully God and fully man when it was illegal to do so under Roman authority (where Cesar was considered a deity in the state cult religion).

Angicanism (and YOU DID attempt to use it as a counter example, and YOU FAILED) «flowed» organically from pre-existing Christianity, and except for the break from Roman authority, in large part remained the same.

By heating the massive stones of the sanctuary and then pouring cold water on them, the Romans reduced the whole place to rubble, thus punishing the Jews for rebelling against Roman authority.

Although Jesus did not directly challenge Roman authority, his message was deeply antithetical to it.

But the fact that Jesus himself was enculturated, or socialized, by a Jewish culture under Roman authority suggests «why it would not be sufficient for me to be exactly like Jesus,» Gittins observes.

Following the Reformation, its challenge to Roman authority; and the religious divisions thereby introduced into the Western world, the Renaissance included widespread doubt that there can be any reasoned agreement about an inclusive good.

Jesus approaches Jerusalem, the heart of Jewish worship and the seat of Roman authority.

Later in the 2nd century AD, there were more manifestations of Roman authority over other churches.

He was a political activist, and most importantly he was rising up against the hypocracy of the Roman authority and the Jewish high priests, which were basically one in the same.

Both the Jewish leaders who demanded the crucifixion of Christ and the Roman authorities who were more concerned with their careers than justice were practical atheists.

Paul would have been acutely aware of the dominance of the Roman authorities that would have crushed the church at any perceived threat to peace that would have occured as a result of a riot.

No wonder they banded together with the Roman authorities and had someone like Christ with his talk of universal love and compassion crucified!

The theological obtuseness of the Roman court theologians (Cajetan partly excepted), the inability or unwillingness of the Roman authorities to appropriate their own best ecclesiological traditions, and the unlovely influence of financial politics on the handling of the doctrinal issues all played a considerable role, as did Luther's impatience and anger, his inability to take stupid and inappropriate papal teaching at all calmly (perhaps because his own early view of the papal office was unrealistically high), as well as his tendency to dramatize his own situation in apocalyptic terms.

Contrary to their Hollywood image, Roman authorities are depicted throughout most of the New Testament as ambivalent to Christianity.

This did not do away with the factual domination of society by Rome, although it threatened the Roman authorities sufficiently that they crucified Jesus and persecuted his followers.

Talk of Jesus as a king was enough to alarm the Jewish high priests and the Roman authorities.

Until the fourth century Christians were at constant risk of persecution from the Roman authorities.

We can say such things, for example, as that he was born in Palestine during the reign of Herod the Great; that he was brought up in Nazareth; that he lived the normal life of a Jew of his period and locale; that he was baptized by John, a proclaimer of the early coming of God's judgment; that he spent a year or more in teaching, somewhat in the manner of contemporary rabbis, groups of his fellow countrymen in various parts of Palestine, mostly in Galilee, and in more intimate association with some chosen friends and disciples; that he incurred the hostility of some of his compatriots and the suspicion of the Roman authorities; that he was put to death in Jerusalem by these same authorities during the procuratorship of Pilate.

Very soon after Roman authorities also persecuted Christians.

The Sadducees, aristocrats who wished to stand in with the Roman authorities, were probably in most cases well - to - do as well as influential, for they controlled the temple worship and hence the temple riches.

Perhaps most extraordinary is Plutarch's account of the great mathematician Archimedes, so taken up in a mathematical proof that he did not notice his city being taken by the Romans, and killed by a soldier when he insisted on finishing his proof before being taken to the Roman authorities.

Whatever may have been the actual course of events, historically speaking, which the New Testament means to signify when it speaks of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is at least clear that it was the conviction of the New Testament writers, building on the testimony of the disciples after the crucifixion of Jesus — as it has been the continuing conviction of millions of Christian people since that time — that far from Jesus» being «put out of the way» by his death at the hands of the Roman authorities in Palestine, he was «let loose into the world.»

While Wright argues that Jesus speaking to Roman authorities in John 18 and 19 presents a mandate for political engagement, Boyd points out that Jesus does not bring up the injustices of the Roman Empire, nor other governmental issues, in his dialogue with Pilate.

This event occurred around 135 C.E., when the imperial Roman authorities in Palestine had outlawed the rabbis» public teaching of Torah.

There were of course some very important differences between the two men, and one of these was that whereas no one knew what happened to Elijah at the end of his earthly life, it was an established fact that Jesus had been crucified by the Roman authorities.

Popular favor may turn toward him or away from him: the thronging of the masses does not become a real danger for the Jewish and Roman authorities, nor does the falling away of the disappointed become a threat of revolt against the Master.

Christianity achieved its amazing gains in the first three centuries against the chronic suspicion and the recurring active persecution of the Roman authorities.

It seems that enough of these women had joined the church to tarnish its reputation, repelling potential converts and giving the Roman authorities yet another reason to be suspicious of the church, which was the last thing the early Christians needed.

Jewish and Roman authorities would try to kill him again if he was discovered.

Perhaps it was the enthusiasm of Galilean pilgrims, who hailed him as Messiah as he entered the city, which called Jesus to the unfavorable notice of the Roman authorities; perhaps it was Jesus» own act of driving money - changers from the temple courts; perhaps it was the bringing of charges against him by powerful Jewish groups whom he had offended.

(Although there can be no doubt, as we have seen, that Jesus was put to death by the Roman authorities, I can not agree with those who virtually deny any hostility toward him on the part of the authorized religious leaders of the people, especially the Pharisees.

This was especially disturbing to the Roman authorities who relied on steady production and the resultant taxes to support their regime.2 If this is correct, it is a striking example of Jesus» concern for the foundational principles of shalom.

Most historians can agree about a few general features of the public ministry of Jesus and the fact of his execution by the Roman authorities.

Jesus was not «nice» to the Pharisees, which is why they manipulated the Roman authorities into executing him.

The early church believed Jesus and followed his example, so much so that even the Roman authorities noted (often with derision) in their letters and journals that the church was made up primarily of women, slaves, and poor, uneducated laborers.

Luther was already finding that he had to provide exactly that service of distinguishing between authentic and inauthentic interpretation of the Gospel, which he had found so unacceptable in the hands of the Roman authorities.

The Roman authorities seemed to be unaware that, with every month, further reforming initiatives were surfacing all over the German speaking lands, not to speak of the rest of northern Europe.

In fact, the Roman authorities normally gave permission for such people to leave; Erasmus had been one such, put into a religious order for lack of living parents, and allowed to leave as a young man.

The Roman authorities were predictably pleased and sent a fresh command to Cajetan, formally denouncing Luther as a heretic and requesting Cajetan summarily to arrest him, with letters to the Emperor and Elector Frederick to assist the process.

The Roman authorities were used to the kind of fanaticism displayed in the somewhat desperate last sentences.

Jesus persuades his right - hand apostle to betray him and turn him over to the Roman authorities, a plan Judas reluctantly agrees to.

Not exact matches

Maj. Roman Filipov was flying over the town of Maasran in Idlib province after conducting airstrikes in the region when his Su - 25 was hit with what Russian authorities said was a MANPAD.

The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.

They would be on much better intellectual and moral ground if they just allowed for the fact that yes, the religious Jews had Jesus killed so that they could protect their authority, but that as much to do with modern Jewish people as the Romans killing the Maccabees has to do with modern Italians — it's utterly irrelevant.