Sentences with phrase «brotherhood which»

This was a brotherhood which, shut off in settlements or even in cities, lived according to its own peculiar customs.

It is a period in which the Congregation founded by the Prophet and expanded by the skillfully conducted warfare of Arabian tribesmen became an Islamic Society with a formulated creed, a system of law derived from the source of its beliefs and ideals, a ruling institution, and a brotherhood which transcends accidents of race and station in life.

The true home of man is the Civitas Dei, the «City of God» in which the common fatherhood of God creates a brotherhood between all the human citizens of the divine commonwealth — a brotherhood which can not be established by any bond of which God himself is not the maker.

To serve the God of love means to do what needs to be done to clear the way for that society of justice, peace, and growing brotherhood which God wills.

Jesus, some say, preached a simple message of love and brotherhood which was perverted by Paul with his legalism and intellectualism ¯ justification, predestination, and all that.

Not exact matches

Indeed, «it is to all Christians that we address a fresh and insistent call to action» — for «beneath an outward appearance of indifference, in the heart of every man there is a will to live in brotherhood and a thirst for justice and peace, which is to be expanded.»

The followers of this movement organized a brotherhood in which all members enjoyed equal rights.

Thus, if in dealing with the problem of the various human races, their appearance, their awakening, their future, we start from its purely biological roots, it will lead us to recognize that the only climate in which man can continue to grow is that of devotion and self - denial in a spirit of brotherhood.

All the presuppositions of Paul's thought were Jewish, and his kinship with Seneca lay either in special phrases, such as «Spend and be spent,» which might easily have been in common vogue, or in large matters like the brotherhood of all men, where Paul shared a universalism long current in the Greco - Roman world.

If Grayling has faith of any sort it is probably most clearly illustrated in this optimism (which some might call naïve) that the world will, after ditching religion, be inclined to work together in a brotherhood - of - man style humanist enterprise.

We hate the wicked, says Rabbi Soloveichik, because of the evil things they do, things which «sever the bonds of brotherhood» between themselves and humanity.

Female bonding is threatening to comradeship, because it is a relationship which ignores the brotherhood and exposes its relationships with women as property arrangements.

He rang the changes on sin more eloquently than anyone of our time, but that dissection, set forth with particularly telling power in the first volume of his Gifford Lectures, was followed by a second volume in which his acknowledgment of the power of the gospel as grace made it possible for him to speak of «the agape of the Kingdom of God [as] a resource for the infinite development towards a more perfect brotherhood in history» (The Nature and Destiny of Man, II [Scribner's, 1943], p. 85)

The history of all the major religions presents many examples of the formation of new vital centers or brotherhoods in which we may see renewed attempts at the realization of the ideal fellowship.

The feeling of solidarity did not extend clearly to the whole of the Christian brotherhood; each of the major units into which it became divided received the main part of its members» loyalty.

It is particularly instructive to turn from Nygren's work to that of Reinhold Niebuhr, for the latter is a theologian who sees the truth for which Nygren is contending and yet who insists that there is a way of bringing agape into a positive relation to the human struggle for the ideals of justice and brotherhood.

Systems and principles of justice are the servants and instruments of the spirit of brotherhood in so far as they extend the sense of obligation towards the other, (a) from an immediately felt obligation, prompted by obvious need, to a continued obligation expressed in fixed principles of mutual support; (b) from a simple relation of the self and one «other» to the complex relations of the self and the «others»; and (c) finally from the obligations... which the community defines from its more impartial perspective.5

Yet of two things the Christian can be confident: that the way of brotherhood and mutual understanding is God's way, which if followed leads to justice, security, and peace; and that if man does end his collective life upon earth, God will still reign in his eternal Kingdom.

His aim is so to bring the Christian perspective into the concrete political and social experience of modern life that the possibility of achieving justice and brotherhood in human affairs will be increased because men are in some measure freed from the sentimental and romantic notions which can only lead to bitter disillusionment.

In the country east of the Jordan there seems to have been more than a single baptismal brotherhood; and the sect of the Mandaeans still living today in Baghdad and along the Euphrates — a sect which has called itself the John - Nazoraeans — may well be a lost remnant of such a group of Baptists.

But today we need new visions of a perfected social order, a planetary society in which all men have equal access to the means of human fulfillment in a world brotherhood at peace with nature and with God.

This credo and strategy must be developed in alliance with secular futurists and other persons who are committed to a vision of a planetary brotherhood, living at peace with nature and with God, in which all people have equal access to the material resources of the world.

Can the church be an instrument of the Spirit, a witness to a vision of a world brotherhood in which increasing knowledge and know - how are put in the loving service of human need?

This spirit of Christian brotherhood, joined with Jesus» insight into the worth of every person as a child of God, was bound to create a ferment which led eventually to the abolition of overt slavery throughout the Christian world.

Christianity is not the simple religion of God's Fatherhood and man's brotherhood, but rather the religion which finds God come to men for their wholeness of life in the person of Jesus Christ; and therefore finds in Him, in who He was, in what He did, in who He is, and in what He does, and in the consequences of those things, the whole substance.

There is, of course, an important distinction between group loyalties which assert in principle the universal claim of all men to justice and brotherhood, and those which make an idol of one group.

We need a strong Christian Church, which pomotes real brotherhood (opposite of hierarchy).

Science was to unify the world (which it has) and bring in a day of universal brotherhood (which it has not).

The dream of perpetual peace and brotherhood «is one which will never be fully realized.

He stood in vehement opposition to the modern customs, which presumably included the luxurious court, the collapse of old simplicities, the conscription of farmers and shepherds into military service, mounting taxation, the decay of old nomadic ideals of brotherhood.

Yahweh stood for justice and brotherhood, against luxury for the few and want for the many, and especially against the iniquitous accretion of oppressive power by which a family heritage like Naboth's could be seized by the king even at the cost of murder.

Vague generalities about the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man have often been spoken which do not cut down through our crust of convention to where the race problem is.

In its essence, it has gone back to what it was when I first revolted against the old social order; a refusal to admit the existence of destiny an extension of the ethical impulse from the restricted individual and family sphere to the whole domain of human activity, a need for effective brotherhood, an affirmation of the superiority of the human person over all the economic and social mechanisms which oppress him.

The personal relations and perhaps also (or sometimes instead) the social order in which one finds oneself may be more amenable to a progressive realization of harmony and brotherhood than Kierkegaard and Niebuhr believe.

To achieve this end he merged two constituent elements, the Meccan emigrants (Muhajirun) and the Medinese helpers (Ansar), into the brotherhood of Islam, a new relationship which was destined to transcend every other relationship of family, clan, tribe, or nation.

It is a society of peaceful brotherhood born in the pangs of violence in order to destroy the violence of the class struggle which has characterized all pre-communist society.

Accordingly, the question needs to be reformulated, thus: What safeguard does the Marxist have which will restrain violence from escalating into the darkness of ultraviolence where the children of the revolution themselves are slaughtered by the revolution and the future brotherhood of man is pushed ever more remotely into the future?

We see the possibility that human history will come to its end neither in a brotherhood of man nor in universal death under the blows of natural or man - made catastrophe, but in the gangrenous corruption of a social life in which every promise, contract, treaty and «word of honor» is given and accepted in deception and distrust.

One after another omitted that cause which I should have imagined to be primary — namely the longing for personal salvation... Many replied that it was the freedom of Christian life compared with the bondage of caste — the attraction of the Christian brotherhood.

The grinning face of the Er Pupone, thumb pointed in the air, pixel - flattened against the brotherhood of the Curva Sud: Totti's selfie is an image caught up in the complicated semiology through which Italian football speaks to itself.

Most high school football teams point to the notion of brotherhood as one of the central tenets on which success is built.

Reed sits at the fraternity table in a knit cardigan and a candy - striped shirt, working at the New York Times crossword puzzle as black men who long ago joined the brotherhood of heroin nod out over steel trolleys laden with dishes on which spaghetti reds and egg - yolk yellows have dried like the caked layers on an artist's palette.»

According to him, I am on a major and historic courtesy visit significantly to show my total solidarity to governor Aregbesola and to reflect the brotherhood that the southwest region is driving at as which the Ogbeni Aregbesola has set to achieve for the state.

«With the exception of my friendship with Vinny Ignizio, which was uniquely cohesive, cooperative and grounded in the truest of brotherhoods, every relationship with colleagues has its ebbs and flows — Nicole Malliotakis is no different,» Oddo wrote in an email.

The Acting President expressed the hope that the spirit of ECOWAS, which is the spirit of brotherhood would be helpful in addressing some of the issues confronting the regional body.

For now, he suggests a name for the chiral Majorana fermion his team discovered: the «angel particle,» in reference to the best - selling 2000 thriller «Angels and Demons» in which a secret brotherhood plots to blow up the Vatican with a time bomb whose explosive power comes from matter - antimatter annihilation.

Which begs the ultimate question of Goat: why would anyone subject themselves to such hateful licentiousness under the guise of brotherhood?

Chase these heavy family portraits with a loose, ecstatic vision of a surrogate one: Everybody Wants Some, in which Richard Linklater returns to the brotherhood of his college baseball days, emerging with another feature - length party, but also a sneaky study of adulthood coming on fast, like the effects of a giant bong hit.

The movie of his debut novel, The Motel Life, — which screens at this year's Fleadh — is a searing and profound examination of brotherhood set in the timeless Sierra Nevadan frontier.

James Franco is also on board to produce the film, which follows the story of a 19 - year - old boy recovering from a vicious assault who pledges a fraternity with his brother and faces brutal challenges to prove his loyalty to the brotherhood.