Sentences with phrase «as itinerant preachers»

The colored preachers, being thus deprived of the opportunity of improving their gifts and graces, as they then stood connected with the white M.E. Society, and prohibited from joining the annual M.E. conference, as itinerant preachers, with their white brethren.

As itinerant preachers and founders of monastic communities, these men contributed their own particular forms of teaching and meditation.

His career as an itinerant preacher was fairly brief — no more than three years, possibly only one year.

There may be a debate over the precise details of his ministry, but the evidence that Jesus lived as an itinerant preacher and died by Roman crucifixion is beyond dispute.

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«As one of the [UU] denomination's many itinerant clergy, he [Hosea Ballou] was riding the circuit in the New Hampshire hills with a Baptist preacher one afternoon.

The son who God gave would grow up to become a carpenter - turned - itinerant preacher with a heart of compassion for the people the world had trampled as it fed its scarcity fears.

The cross, as a Christian symbol, gets you right to the idea that a guy whose family was in the building trades in some colonial backwater left home to become an itinerant preacher, was put to death in a particularly shabby way, and turned out to be God Incarnate.

In C. P. Snow's novel Time of Hope, a man named Martineau, owner of a firm of lawyers, gives his practice to his partner and takes to the road as a poor itinerant preacher.

From 1377 onward he began to send out itinerant preachers of his views all over the country These people known as Lollards, preached chiefly evangelical poverty against the rich, luxurious life of many churchmen.

To give wide currency to the Bible he sent out itinerant preachers who won a following known as the Lollards.

As one of the [Unitarian Universalist] denomination's many itinerant clergy, he [Hosea Ballou] was riding the circuit in the New Hampshire hills with a Baptist preacher one afternoon.

Only 1 per cent view him as a «political revolutionary,» and the turn - of - the - century liberalism that saw him as moral teacher, prophet or itinerant preacher hardly shows up on the screen.