Sentences with phrase «against christendom»

Roger Williams and William Penn, along with other Baptists and Quakers, put the Bible to use against Christendom.

By the 11th century, Muslims were far more likely to pursue jihad against their fellow Muslims than against Christendom.

But he was against Christendom, which is kind of everything about the Church sans Christ.

Not exact matches

To be reasoned and reasonable might not be traits of rationalities attributed to many loving Christians who are too hellishly scared to clamour against the folds of riddled Atheists who do ever make a foolish mockery out of all Christendoms!

Yes, spiritual warfare on every front of Christendom and when these hit pieces come out against the men of God who lead these churches (institutions as you call them), I believe it aids and abets the enemy.

From the beginning, he rebelled against God, or against the God then present in Christendom, ironically disguising his attack by presenting him under the guise of a number of simple though powerful symbols, the most successful of which is surely the «Tyger.»

Ottomans ruled the Balkans for 500 years... yet most indigenous populations kept their faith (Serbs, Croats, Bulgarians, Romanians, Hungarians... etc.)... and conversion was voluntary... so much so that the Serbs (whom Breivik admires) were able to justify genocide and mass - murder against the Bosnian Muslims under the banner of Christendom in the 1990's.

, 176, where he speaks of his generation's effort to defend itself against Christ; and Kierkegaard's Attack Upon Christendom, 160 - 161, where he critiques the Christian Church in history for trying to defend itself against the possibility of following Christ as the Pattern.

but the woman or our society keep the war against Rome going for 1000 years then another 1000 when England took over the assault, their valiant struggle did not end until Christendom put are woman to the subservient side of the coin, and the dark ages followed, my point is your right men and woman can not do the same things men destroy, women create.

Biblical criticism can now be seen as just such a «diabolical» rebellion against the reigning superego of dogmatic Christendom.

Muslims can not be counted as worshiping «the only true God», for they fail to use his personal name, Jehovah, but use the Aramaic word Allah, meaning «the God» and are as mixed with the «world» and violence as are the churches of Christendom and Jews, not having» beaten their swords into plowshares and spears into pruning shears» whereby «nation will not lift sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore».

Some Christian leaders have even rejoiced in the dissolution of a Christendom that allowed, or perhaps encouraged, an excessive degree of nominal Christian allegiance: the impact of modem secular society has challenged people to make a conscious choice about whether they are either for or against Christianity.

The modern dimension of this wager is that our time is so obviously divorced from the time of Jesus, or, at least, our world and history is clearly estranged from the classical world of Christendom, with the consequence that to choose the traditional form of Christ is either to set oneself against the contemporary world or to decide that the actuality of one's time and situation can have no bearing upon one's faith in Christ.

Soren Kierkegaard's critical witness against «Christendom» in mid-nineteenth century Europe was coterminous with what Sydney Mead identified as the point at which Christianity and Americanism became merged into a unified sort of spirituality.

Narrow and constricted as it was, the order supplied to the European peoples by primitive Christendom, that premature construction of a supposed City of God on earth, may have seemed better than the chaos of a war of all against all.

Some believe that the defense of Christendom against atheistic Marxism is the most basic requirement.

Some believe that the defence of Christendom against atheistic Marxism is the most basic requirement.

Once upon a time, as one story goes, men and women rose up in defiance against religious superstition and oppression to split the thousand - year tyranny of Catholic Christendom.

Everywhere (And such is now the case almost everywhere in Christendom, which, as it seems, either entirely ignores the fact that Christ Himself it is who so frequently and with such heartfelt emphasis warned against offense, even at the end of His life, and even when He addressed His faithful Apostles who had followed Him from the beginning and for His sake had forsaken all — or maybe silently regards this as an extravagant apprehension on the part of Christ, inasmuch as the experience of thousands and thousands proves that one can have faith in Christ without having noticed the least trace of the possibility of offense.

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.

For the moment, while they impressed him, it was all discounted against Rome's great status, the Indulgences to be gained by visiting the basilicas, the sheer fact of being at the heart of Christendom, and the usual Christian tourist reaction of the time — he admired the Pantheon, its size and its symbolism, once the place of the classical gods, now a Christian church.

Small wonder that America's movies and music and television shows make us enemies in traditional societies around the world — and small wonder, too, that many cultural conservatives, despairing of their country's future, embrace withdrawal from the world into a narrow, well - defended Christendom, where their families and their faith can be protected from the lowest - common - denominator swill that washes against the walls outside.

Georgia's process of identity formation, as a bulwark of Christianity against the Islamic world, naturally led it to view itself as part of a greater whole, Christendom, defined against the East — the land of its enemy.