Sentences with phrase «between christendom»

Of the activities of the Bedouins in Tunisia it need be noted only that they and their descendants gave active support to their co-religionists in the expanding arena of conflict between Christendom and Islam.

Or that Protestant civilization in general faces a decision between Christendom coupled with lukewarm religion and an individualistic biblical fervor that fractures communities and divides the Church?

Not exact matches

A government which systematically and publicly seeks to buttress its political legitimacy from Christian Bibles, oaths, clergy, and prayer, in continuum with more than a millennium of political leaders within Christendom, is not acting «neutrally» among religions, or between religion and non-religion.

However, interpretations of this clause need to be grounded in the realization that America is historically a part of Christendom, and that American government has never successfully carried out a policy of acting neutrally among religions, or between religion and non-religion.

If so, the close connection between salvation and the influence of Jesus is harder to establish even in the sphere of Christendom.

Clinging to the vanishing symbols of a now fallen Christendom, they stand on the «knife - edge» between Angst and faith.

Using as examples what he saw as the crusaders» thuggish disruption of the equilibrium between civilized Islamic and Eastern Christian lands of the eastern Mediterranean, and their destruction of Byzantium, which they had originally set out to assist, thereby allowing the Ottoman Turks to subjugate half of Christendom, Runciman sought to show how civilization — any civilization — is imperiled once high culture, reason, learning, and moderation are challenged by violent greed and ignorance.

We must differentiate between the values and concerns of the Kingdom of God and the modern equivalents of Christendom, such as the world market which propagates its own values based on greed and the logic of world economics.

His survey's central theme is the relationship between the ideals of Christendom — an organic unity of government, church, and society — and of «biblicism,» a term he uses to convey the commitment to follow «the Bible alone» in structuring all aspects of life and faith.

this relationship between speaker and hearer prevailed as long as Christendom as such prevailed, and therefore this was the movement appropriate to it.

Thus, on the margins between the surviving fragments of Christendom, more searching questions were being asked.

Certainly there are some distinct differences between modern secular culture and the state of Christendom out of which it has come, just as there are great differences between traditional Christianity and the Judaism out of which it emerged, and of which it claimed to be the fulfilment.

Medieval Christendom was subject to a dualistic tension between the secular and the religious, the temporal and the eternal, which made itself evident at many points.

1187) and a century later the Crusaders were expelled from their last stronghold in the Levant, the memories of the Crusades continued to cloud the relations between Islam and Christendom.

The fundamental misfortune of Christendom is really Christianity, the fact that the doctrine of the God - Man (the Christian understanding of which, be it noted, is secured by the paradox and the possibility of offense) is taken in vain, the qualitative distinction between God and man is pantheistically abolished — first speculatively with an air of superiority, then vulgarly in the streets and alleys.

In the past, the theologian would distinguish between God, Christendom, Christianity and church, so that a different balance of «yes» and «no» could be uttered to each.

The medieval gallery includes textiles, sculpture, painting, and metalwork from European Christendom; a video kiosk explores the relationships between medieval art and music.