Sentences with phrase «roman empire»

4) This persecution was universal, not confined to one particular province but throughout the whole Roman empire.

The Christianity that step - by - step won over the ancient world, until the Roman Empire became the Christian Byzantine Empire, was primarily the Matthean rather than the Pauline kind of Christianity.

For the first three hundred years of Christianity, it was in the Roman empire that the Christians were persecuted.

The Pax Romana or «Roman Peace» was a term coined by the people in power during the first - and second - century Roman Empire.

Though Carthage was economically rich, the whole Roman empire went through a period of economic crisis.

On the contrary, it would be politically wise to encourage Nestorianism among the Persian Christians so as to alienate them from Christians in the Roman empire.

The faith of first - century Christians in the Roman Empire was rooted in Christ, but their living was grounded in Caesar.

At the same time they were also rejecting any idea that its loyalty was with any particular nation politically, as was the Latin or Byzantine church in the Roman empire.

The values that Jesus taught and lived by were diametrically opposed to the exploitative values of the Roman empire.

With the fall of the Roman empire, due to its internal moral laxity and external attacks by «Barbarians» from the North and East, the Church became the single most powerful agency for the formation and social stability of the European peoples.

Though Edessa was politically Roman, its cultural and religious ties were with the Syriac speaking peoples of Persian Mesopotamia and not with the Greek speaking centres in the Roman empire.

It does not seem that the change was made because the name Persian belonged to a fading past nor because they wanted to reaffirm their connection with the church in the Roman empire.

The adoption of the name «Syrian» was not an effort to re-establish its link with Antioch or an effort to acknowledge the glories of the Roman empire, as John Foster suggested.

Beyond the borders of the Roman empire was the Parthian (Persian) empire.

In the New Testament, the Pax Romana provided one key condition for the proclamation of the gospel around the Roman Empire during the time of the Apostles, in spite of the fact that the Roman imperial machine was less than Christian in conduct and policy.

But now Nestorians had been condemned in the Roman empire and they were seeking refuge in Persia, there was no longer any danger that such a form of Christianity would be a link with an alien power.

(E. H. Warmington, The Commerce between the Roman Empire and India, London, Curzon Press.

The Jews back then were a Monotheistic Religion during the same Time period and were not persecuted by Roman Diplomacies and yet both denominations of Mono and Pluralistic Religious denominations were in effectualisms living mostly in peace with the exceptions of those Jews who were likened by Barabbas, the Jew who wanted nothing but war with the Roman Empire.

St. Francis of Assisi had a greater impact on European society than any ruler of the Holy Roman Empire.

Forbidden by the newly Christianized Roman Empire from owning land or practicing most professions, Jews were herded into moneylending by church and state, the former purposing to humiliate them, the latter to milk them.

The Jewish people were one ethnic unit living not only within the ancient boundaries of Palestine - Judea but scattered throughout the Roman Empire.

It very well could have been an exasperated response to the idea that a few men could somehow fight against the Roman Empire.

Islam was driven into expansions outer boarder came after the death of the Messenger of God and only went to outer the Arabian Penisular towards the Arabic countries boarders now because of the wars launched on their boarders by the Roman Empire before changing face when a new Religion was imposed that combined all Beliefs that was within it into one state religion based on which The Roman Armies became to be known there after as the Crusaders whom launched attacks by land or by sea on Islamic countries through many generations up to date

The next transformation came at a time of great Christian growth when the Roman Empire became officially Christian.

In the early centuries of the church, the Roman Empire also had it's banners and seals, and Roman Citizens were required by law to swear fealty to Caesar by stating some sort of Pledge of Allegiance to one of his banners or seals.

Before that book was printed, all the way from the roman empire to martin luther, the catholic church had everyone under a salesman's spell since the people were afraid, and in some cases depended on the church to protect them, so they just bought all the religion without even knowing what really went into and if that information was trustworthy.

Certain factions of Christians in the Roman empire were heavy readers of Matthew, others of John, etc., as well as many others in more minority parts of the empire who held fast to the Gospel of Thomas, even of Mary and Judas!

The result of this outsider's work was that people living in the Roman Empire could understand and appropriate the message of Jesus.

Solely on this condition Muhammad would not attack the Roman Empire (also called Byzantium at the time of Heraclius and Muhammad).

But regardless, I do know that the Roman Emperors required citizens to swear allegiance to himself and to the Roman Empire in much the same way we do today, and many early Christians refused, instead swearing allegiance to Jesus as Lord.

It wasn't until towards the end of the Roman Empire did we come up with the idea that a single god governs everything and all others are simply false gods.

Up to emperor Constantin the Roman empire was pagan and persecuted the Christian Church.

In fact children originally said the pledge of allegiance with a Roman (Nazi) salute like people swearing allegiance to «divine» Caesars used to do in the Roman Empire and Italian fascists swearing allegiance to Mussolini:

Therefore his cosmopolitan detractors in the Roman Empire were able to sneer that he had put in his appearance «in some small corner of the earth somewhere,» and not (to borrow a modern phrase that seems appropriate) out here in the real world.

They were written by other authors in an attempt to make Paul's radical theology more compatible with the culture and theology of the Roman Empire.

It appears that Jesus pretty much just shrugged His shoulders and lived within the new order that had resulted from this fundamental transformation of the Roman Empire.

Pagels points out how promiscuity and immorality in the late Roman Empire resulted in widespread infanticide and abortion, as well as a slave trade in child prostitutes who were treated, in Justin's phrase, «like herds of oxen, goats, or sheep.»

I believe that because Christianity has historically survived the occupation under the Roman Empire, the convoluted Middle Ages, the violent uprising between Catholics and Protestants in Europe in the 1500s and 1600s.

One of the most influential additions to Christianity was the mass inclusion of thousands of temples across the entire Roman Empire.

The New Testament sets up a distortion of the spread of Christianity, by focusing only on its advance into the Roman Empire, almost completely ignoring its advances into Africa, the Parthian Empire, India, and points east.

The way Christians treated «unwanted» babies in the early years of the Roman Empire was quite different from their Roman counterparts.

The treatment of people outside Christianity was even worse, such as our treatment of «pagans» who refused to convert to Christianity after it became the official religion of the Roman Empire, or the Jews during most of Christian history, or other religious groups in Germany and Great Britain who were slaughtered and enslaved by invading Christian armies, or the enslavement of Native Americans and Africans by imperialistic Christian settlers of the «New World.»

Jesus never discussed voting partly because voting was not an option in the Roman Empire.

This is why the Roman empire will always be the greatest ever known... it still exists.

No, the civilized world or Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) realized the validity of Christianity and the falsehood of paganism.

After the conversion of Constantine, the church leaders saw that using the power of the Roman Empire and the threat of the sword would help them gain glory, riches, honor, prestige, land, and wealth.

Church buildings were added when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Next to the description of Pentecost in the second chapter of Acts, this passage is the most important in the entire book, for what takes place here opens up for the church its largest field for expansion and makes possible the eventual winning of the Roman Empire to Christianity.

But it was not until the end of the century, under Domitian who reigned from 81 to 96, that persecution became general throughout the Roman Empire.

Pagels grants that many Christians were themselves slave owners, yet says others went among the Roman Empire's wretched outcasts with the message of radical equality — that class, education and gender «made no difference.»