Sentences with phrase «became bulwarks»

His masterworks — On Christian Teaching, The Confessions, The Trinity, and The City of God — became bulwarks of Christian education in the West, and eventually served as the intellectual foundation for the first universities at Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge in the later Middle Ages.

It became a bulwark of the Church of England against Roman Catholics and the more extreme Protestants.

«Green» ideology has become the bulwark of older agendas: The nations of the West must end their own prosperity, because that is only «fair» — and it necessary to save the world from Capitalist greed.

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The throw - weight of the Holy See, the papacy, and the Catholic Church in twenty - first - century world affairs reflects the perception that the Church has become the world's preeminent institutional defender of basic human rights — and thus the greatest bulwark, among the great world religions, to the freedom project around the globe.

Here some elements of the Benedict Option become essential: educating our children, rebuilding our parishes, and patiently building little bulwarks of truly humanist culture within our decaying civilization.

Even as early as his 1845 Essay on the Development of Doctrine, written while he was still an Anglican but already more than halfway out the door (he became a Catholic while the book was still in the printery), he was defending the idea of infallibility, and precisely as a bulwark against infidelity in all its forms:

In some sections of Latin America the Church became the strongest bulwark of the old social and economic regime, a guardian of a disappearing society.

As a senior member of the governing majority, I will remain an important bulwark against these and a mountain of other bad ideas from ever becoming law.»

In the telling of liberal activists, who hope New York will become a left - leaning bulwark against Mr. Trump, Mr. Cuomo has made only a watered - down effort at establishing a solid Democratic majority in the State Senate.

Centuries of an independent civil service, acting as a bulwark to politicians and their advisers, have been subverted over the past decade, so with their hands directing the levers of power, Government becomes a dirty, grubby, ugly business.

That became the underlying bulwark for the «29 bubble.

Through these ephemeral interventions with light calligraphy, Dokins captures the invisible, acting on air and featuring iconic places: historic sites, public plazas, monuments, bulwarks — abandoned spaces become re-signification spaces.