Sentences with phrase «about martyrs»

Directed by Mel Gibson (Apocalypto, The Passion of the Christ), who would also take home Oscar gold for his efforts, it would show Mel's penchant for stories about martyrs attacked from all sides without mercy, with plenty of torture, disembowelings and severed limbs on display.

Not exact matches

«We had a pen they didn't know about and we were taking little scraps of paper and trying to hand out notes to anyone and everyone that wasn't one of the guards or commanders involved in killing Martyr,» Coleman said, referring to their aborted daughter.

The office martyr considers themselves a victim, taking on extra work, staying late at the office, and giving nearly everything for their career, all the while complaining about the extra burden they supposedly have to bear.

Judas was not to become a martyr because of the way the apostles wrote about him in the Gospel - they saw through the eyes of men, and Judas was unable to redeem himself before he died a natural death, dying instead loathed, hated & driven to suicide for his deed against the Son of God, Jesus, whom he had Loved so much.

So... maybe the facts about early church martyrs are sketchy, and maybe they are not, but there's no disputing that Christians today are persecuted around the world for their beliefs.

The early Christians weren't foisting a narrative out of the blue about being martyrs.»

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

The good reverend says Christians don't have a martyr complex, and then goes on about how Christians are persecuted.

So I doubt many will take her views seriously, since the fly in the face of what we have learned through the years about such Christians martyrs as Jim Elliot (speared to death by the Aucas and yet his son went back to be a missionary to them, because he LOVED them, something she might want to consider).

For centuries the only way this religion of sword has been able to proliferate has been to brainwash people by getting them angry, and injecting sorrow, into their souls about the dead and martyrs, as well as creating hate towards an enemey, even a made - up one Without a funeral, mourning, and a physical shrine, muslims are lost!

We recently spoke with author Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy; Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery) about his new book Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life and what inspired him to explore the idea of supernatural phenomenon in an increasingly cynical world.

Still others will speak about Syria's many martyred laity and clergy, including two Orthodox bishops — Boulos Yazigi and Mar Gregorios Youhanna Ibrahim — who disappeared in April 2013, and a twelve - year - old evangelical boy and his father who were crucified for their Christian conversion last summer.

By the second century, Roman soldiers were bringing their new faith to Britain, and in the middle of the third century St. Alban became Britain's first known Christian martyr, but we don't know much more about who these Christians were, and it is here that Malcolm Lambert begins in Pagans and Christians: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede, producing a captivating narrative by squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical record.

Tomorrow, on April 29th, Rome's white marble Trevi Fountain — its swirling waters and the charging baroque statues of Oceanus, his sea shell chariot and attendant tritons and horses — will all be turned blood red in a campaign to raise awareness about modern day Christian martyrs.

and spoke what appeared to be a prophecy of Peter's death, Peter immediately raised a question about John (for no one likes to be a martyr alone): «Lord, what about him?»

But the church that grew from the blood of those martyrs knew what it was talking about.

When Alphonsus Liguori wrote his celebrated Victories of the Martyrs one hundred and fifty years later, he included more than a hundred pages about the Japanese martyrs.

For Mark's interpretation of the life of Jesus as the career of the heavenly Son of Man, walking about Galilee incognito, dying and rising again, is the theology of a martyr church; and like all vital theology it is in closest relation to the daily life of those who thought it and believed it.

What about Christians who are martyred for their faith?

Yet, as Dale Ahlquist told me, «we need to expand our ideas about sanctity, and recognize the saints among us in the ordinary world» — not just mystics and martyrs from centuries past.

When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.

All I hear about is how they got their pwecious widdle feewings hurt, and then they go around equating themselves with the martyrs or the victims of the Holocaust.

Go save someone, or kill someone, build something, or destroy something, pick a leader, be a martyr, anything but this psychobabble lunacy about materialist moralism!

After a time, however, some Jews began to speak about resurrection of the body, which to them meant the entire human personality; they did this because it was inconceivable that Jews who suffered death as martyrs in the time of the Maccabees should be «cast as rubbish to the void,» their faithfulness to Judaism unrewarded and their bravery denied enduring value.

Freelance reporter Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra spoke with Tollet (before the weekend's bombing) about the blasphemy law in Pakistan, relationships between the country's Christians and Muslims, and the dimming hopes that Bibi will escape a martyr's death.

In a piece published in December, John L. Allen speaks about what he calls the new martyrs of Latin America and how Christians in Colombia and El Salvador are at a high risk of being killed.

For example, the CSGC considers about 20 pecent of the DRC civil war deaths to be martyrs, which heavily influences its tally (averaged over a decade).

The work of the Eternal Word of God, present in men spermatically, as Justin Martyr for example put it, offered this possibility of salvation, so that the historical accident of having lived after Jesus or having heard about Him was not the necessary condition of the salvation which God purposed for His human children.

If this is so, then the role of Tertullian in preserving, through redaction, [22] the dramatic, movingly vivid account of the martyrdom of a recently baptised young woman, the Roman citizen, Perpetua, in the amphitheatre of Carthage in about the year 203, ought to give us clues to the understanding of his attitude towards women as members of the church as opposed to women as martyrs.

the dramatic, movingly vivid account of the martyrdom of a recently baptised young woman, the Roman citizen, Perpetua, in the amphitheatre of Carthage in about the year 203, ought to give us clues to the understanding of his attitude towards women as members of the church as opposed to women as martyrs.

Tertullian upheld martyrs, who through the immediacy of their act render superfluous the necessity of repeating and arguing about discipline and order within the ongoing life of the church, since, as he warns the authorities of the state: «Your most refined cruelties are to no purpose.

Lucy, whose name means «light», was born in 283 AD in Syracuse, Sicily, and was martyred in about 304 AD after having her eyes gauged out, according to some accounts.

Theology must both «justify the witness of the martyr» and make it clear that the gospel is about the «transfiguration of this world.»

Apart from the fact that most bishops, like most of us, are not the stuff of which martyrs are made, how might he go about such a challenge?

Before recently, Mart Green had never been in a movie theater, but he's the driving force behind two new films about the 1956 missionary martyrs in Ecuador — and the tribe that killed them.

We know that communism was a theology, a church militant, with sacred texts and with saints and martyrs and prophets, with doctrines about the nature of the world and of humankind, with immutable laws and millennial visions and life - pervading judgments about the nature of good and evil.

The Grandfathers (EthnoGraphic Media), new on DVD, is being billed as the last chapter in a trilogy about the five missionary martyrs — including Jim Elliot and Nate Saint — killed in Ecuador in 1956.

It will be important for pastors, and catechists, and teachers in Catholic schools, to teach about the heroes of the Church: missionaries and martyrs, statesmen, explorers, writers, musicians.

You can play the martyr card about 1800 years ago... not so much in the modern day.

But Aquinas was just about as far from the time of martyrs as Aristotle was from the time of heroes — about a thousand years.

As the persecution of Christians continues in Sudan and East Timor and elsewhere — as people of faith continue to testify to the gospel of love and the truth about the human person — the continuing story of the martyrs will have to be told in the twenty - first century as well.

«While we are glad to see and commend the local authorities under international pressure acted swiftly and fairly to resolve the church's land with this right decision, we are still deeply concerned about the justice for this family of martyr which is still not done,» stated Bob Fu, China Aid's president.

Justin Martyr, writing about AD.

We weren't perfect, we weren't martyrs and we certainly weren't always happy about doing it.

But hey, it's a lot easier to play the martyr and complain about the negative feedback you get then to face a serious challenge.

So happy to see more sane, reasonable, SCIENTIFIC discourse about infant nutrition finally starting to challenge this martyr - mother cult of ours..

Maybe that was a harsh description, but like the Truth Campaign, I want to make it clear that there's nothing remotely admirable about being a Modern Day Martyr.

Author James Baldwin planned to write a book about his experiences and close friendships with civil - rights martyrs the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers.

Oh, yes, and reading about the great philosophers, soldiers, writers, stoics, saints, despots, monks and martyrs who knew something of these traits — more, perhaps than your local mayor or teacher or even your inner self.

A major literary figure tells «a searching tale of loss, recovery, and deja vu that is part memoir and what - if speculation, part polemic and exposé» (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family — civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis.