Sentences with phrase «after christendom»

Working on a narrative - historical theology for the church after Christendom.

Working on a narrative - historical theology for the church after Christendom.

Working on a narrative - historical theology for the church after Christendom.

Working on a narrative - historical theology for the church after Christendom.

After Christendom: How the Church is to Behave if Freedom, Justice and a Christian Nation are Bad Ideas; Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991.

Scott Bader - Saye is professor of theology at the University of Scranton and the author of Church and Israel After Christendom: The Politics of Election.

Not exact matches

Christ of the 21st Century (1992); Donald English, Into the 21st Century (1995); Douglas John Hall, The End of Christendom and the Future of Christianity (1997); John Shelby Spong, Why Christianity Must Change or Die (1998); and Don Cupitt, After God (1997).

In Augustine's time, Christians were the «third people,» after pagan Romans and Jews, while by the end of the sixth century they were indisputably the «first people,» with all that entailed for the development of Christendom.

But it must be said, and as outspokenly as possible, that the so - called Christendom (in which after a sort all men are Christians in a way, so that there are just as many, precisely as many Christians as there are men)-- it must be said that not only is it a wretched edition of Christianity, full of misprints disturbing to the sense, and of senseless omissions and additions, but that it has abusively taken Christianity's name in vain.

At any rate there has lived no one and there lives no one outside of Christendom who is not in despair, and no one in Christendom, unless he be a true Christian, and if he is not quite that, he is somewhat in despair after all.

This statistical tilting of Christendom from the north to the south, after 2,000 years, holds tremendous prospects and challenges.

As to the claim that creeds impose the will of the elite, Pelikan points out cases — most notably the opposition to Arianism in the century or so after the Council of Nicaea — in which, in John Henry Newman's words, «The Catholic people, in the length and breadth of Christendom, were the obstinate champions of Catholic truth, and the bishops were not.»

Until the next world, violence alone ensured the survival of Christendom — and so, after their victory at the great Battle of Lepanto, Spanish and Italians butchered scores of defeated Turkish seamen thrashing in the bloody seas, determined that the sultan would lose all his skilled bowmen and rowers.

Even the decline of Christendom was hardly noticed until after the end of the nineteenth century.

Though the Catholic church itself eventually failed to realize the truth of its own teaching it had done its job so well that for three centuries after the Reformation Catholic, Protestant and freethinker alike continued to live under the spell of Christendom.

After I wrote The Next Christendom in 2002, I had a bizarre encounter with an elderly and rather aristocratic Episcopal woman, who praised me for how effectively I had delineated the growth of new kinds of Christianity in the global South, with its passion and enthusiasm, its primitive or apostolic quality, its openness to the supernatural.

After all, the epidemic has broken out, not in some primitive area, but in the supposed heart of Christendom.

Even Christendom reflected its own pagan past by continuing to name the days of the week after pagan gods, though we have long since forgotten why.

To have fallen into any of those open traps of error and exaggeration which fashion after fashion and sect after sect set along the historic path of Christendom - that would indeed have been obvious and tame.

So it is a matter of plain fact that Christianity molded what came to be called Europe (whose original name, after all, was «Christendom»), but to say so does not by itself tell us whether that shaping of European culture through the medium of Christian ideas was a good thing or a bad thing to begin with, let alone whether those ideas speak to us now.

After all, Christendom, the matrix of all existing forms of Christianity, is rooted in Nicea and its creedal canons.

You know that I am descended from the most Christian emperors of the German nation, from the Catholic kings of Spain, the Archdukes of Austria and the dukes of Burgundy... After death they left us by natural right and heritage these holy Catholic observances, to live according to them and to die according to their example... I am determined to support everything that these predecessors and I myself have kept... It is certain that a single friar errs in his opinion which is against all of Christendom and according to which all of Christianity will be and will always have been in error both in the past thousand years and even more in the present... I am absolutely determined to stake on this cause my kingdoms and seignories, my friends, my body and blood, my life and soul.

After the disintegration of Christendom - a historical apparatus that gave cultural pride of place to Christianity - Christian truth claims can not be taken for granted or simply asserted using logical apologetics.