Sentences with phrase «abolitionist church»

The title of First Reformed, Paul Schrader's best film in a very long time, refers to an old abolitionist church in upstate New York, a metaphor for Christianity's neglected values.

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The church wasn't abolitionist, but believed that slave holders should free their slaves but should receive compensation for the relinquishment.

Dalahäst If you dug through all of Church history you might find a few leaders like St. Patrick who openly opposed slavery, but the vast majority regarded it as consistent with Christian theology up until the general abolitionist movement.

You have not studied much about the role of Christians and Christian churches in the abolitionist movements both in the United States and in Great Britain, have you?

Obvious examples of this need which have surfaced previously are the church's doctrine of the Trinity and the Christian Abolitionist movement.

Republican religion did much to lay the historical groundwork for the tradition of religious liberty and limited separation of church and state, as it did to nurture creative minorities like the abolitionists, social gospelers, and civil - rights protesters.

The Wesleyan Methodist Church was explicitly abolitionist at its founding, and much early literature of the denomination has recently come back into print for «black studies» programs.

If you'd bother researching before opening your pathetic little mouth, you would have discovered that Mormons were abolitionist, something that caused a great deal of friction between them and the other residents of Missouri in the early days of the church.

«Neither Peter in his work to include Gentiles in the church nor the abolitionists in their campaign against slavery argued that their experience should take precedence over Scripture,» writes Matthew.

The First Reformed of Paul Schrader's new film is a church, a small edifice in upstate New York with a rich history in the abolitionist movement, a landmark of a bygone age of activism and justice.