Sentences with phrase «by missionaries as»

In fact anti-slavery and evangelistic campaigns were (at least initially) considered by the missionaries as separate issues.

Not exact matches

TQM was demonstrated on a grand scale by Japanese industry through the intervention of W. Edwards Deming — who, in consequence, and thanks to his missionary labors in the U.S. and across the world, has come to be viewed as the «father» of quality control, quality circles, and the quality movement generally.

He was shot in the back by several men (not just one) while sojourning as a missionary in the deep south.

So I doubt many will take her views seriously, since the fly in the face of what we have learned through the years about such Christians martyrs as Jim Elliot (speared to death by the Aucas and yet his son went back to be a missionary to them, because he LOVED them, something she might want to consider).

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

To illustrate my point I'll give you an example: While serving as a Missionary in Italy, one day I prayed for a miracle; a few hours later my companion and I were stopped by some business guy standing behind his car.

Yes, Hindu thinkers such as the first Hindu missionary to America Swami Vivekananda have argued against caste, and the Indian Constitution outlawed caste - based discrimination, but the caste system, both ancient and religious, will not be swatted away so easily by either reformers or legislators.

The general working theory for Christian missionaries was first formalized in St. Augustine's doctrine of «cognite intrare», or «compel them to enter», but was perhaps best summed up by J. C. Warner some 1500 years later: ``... the sword must first — not exterminate them, but — break them up as tribes, and destroy their political existence; after which, when thus set free from the shackles by which they are bound, civilisation and Christianity will no doubt make rapid progress among them.»

The Jesuit Alessandro Valignano (1539 - 1606) was among the first to articulate missionary policies, not only emphasizing the importance of «accommodation and adaptation to Chinese culture,» as historian Daniel H. Bays writes, but also «indirect evangelism by means of science and technology to convince the elite of the high level of European civilization.»

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

Monks and Missionaries As Christianity became culturally assimilated, monks sought to live pure Christian lives by separating themselves from society and taking the gospel to Europe.

Those evangelical «old style» missionaries still serving overseas are perceived by liberal / ecumenicals as supporting repressive economic and political systems in developing countries in order to achieve the «stability» that will enable them to gain admittance to those countries and be left free to evangelize.

Self - schooled in the history of European nationalism — especially as championed by Giuseppe Mazzini in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad cultural ideology that could challenge the British Raj, counter Western influence more generally, and provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly culture - destroying work of Christian missionaries.

In his service as missionary and later as director of the World Council's Theological Education Fund, he had encountered and dissented from the notion that redemptive Christian norms and ideas transform culture by being imported into or imposed on it.

Sham Pearls for Real Swine by franky schaeffer wolgemuth & hyatt, 290 pages, $ 14.95 In 1948, a young American minister from the conservative Bible Presbyterian Church moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, to serve as a missionary to Europe.

Catholic bishops in Guatemala — as elsewhere in the region — resent the persecution by governments seen to be in league with U.S. fundamentalist missionaries.

As I grew, and learned more about christian history, the crusades, the inquisitions, the forced religion by missionaries and governments etc..

Even though Africa has trained enough people to the same academic levels as in Canada, USA and Australia it can not democratize or develop unless it first cures the residual effects of the partial westernization, cognitive dissonance, and governance - deficiency syndrome created by missionary Christianity.

At the same time, it must be said that this ecumenical (to all the inhabited world) sense of the missionary aim was given new impetus by what John R. Mott (Edinburgh, 1910) defined as «the decisive hour of Christian Mission» which called for» the evangelisation of the world in this generation».

Conventional Christianity paid little attention to Mormonism as long as LDS proselytizing was done mainly by pairs of young missionaries sent out from Salt Lake City.

In the memoirs of Asian and African leaders who were graduates from these schools it has become almost obligatory, as part of an attack upon white Christian colonialism, to express bitterness and recrimination about the loss of native roots that came as a by - product of missionary education and of imperialist schools both in the mission field and in the home country.

That was followed by their global hit «Viva La Vida» which is full of Christian symbolism as it references the bells of Jerusalem, missionaries in a foreign field, but also the cryptic line «I know St Peter won't call my name» which has always struck me as challenging.

Movements such as de-colonization, the rise of Communism — especially the expulsion of missionaries from China by the Communists — and the attempt to vindicate Human Rights culminating in the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) have direct and indirect impact on mission understanding.

Missionaries» new religious devices, Bible, baptism etc., were perceived by some of the Malayarayans as powerful guarantee against evil spirits.

While many of these charts were helpful, such as the parallels between Acts and the letters of Paul, and the chart on Paul's missionary journeys, I did not find the charts about all the Men and Women mentioned by Paul to be necessary.

By the end of the second century, missionary expansion had carried the church as far east as Bactria, what is now northern Afghanistan, and mass conversions of Huns and Turks in Central Asia were reported from the fifth century onward.

Adam, one of the Nestorian missionaries in China, was considered by the Buddhists as dangerous not because he was making Christianity too Buddhist but because he was trying to make Buddhism look too Christian.

It must be noted that these were not communities of Persian Christians but of Indians by blood and ancestry brought to Christian faith by the missionary activities of Indian Christians as well of Persian missionaries.

Indeed, already in 1913 the missionary scholar J N Farquhar noted that «the life of India is dominated by the future, by the vision of the brilliant happy India that is to rise as a result of the united toil and self - sacrifice of her sons.»

The Christian Century for December 22, 1976, carried a discerning article by Mark Juergensmeyer on «The Fading of an Era,» in which he vividly described the departure of the «last evangelistic missionary couple» from the Punjab state of north India and saw that departure as signifying the end of the «great missionary era of the...

At the first Axial Period, the ancient nature religions reacted strongly against the rise and spread of the new world religions, just as the Maori tohungas, for example, strongly resisted the message brought by the Christian missionaries.

In 2010 property developers in Shandong province were given formal approval to knock down a 19th - century church built by Anglican missionaries — despite it being part of The Three - Self Patriotic Movement and designated as a protected national historical landmark.

Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi were bonded laborers (seen by many as a modern form of slavery) at a brick - making kiln who lived in a small Punjab town named for the first Anglican missionary to Pakistan.

The success of Totus Tuus is such that interest in serving as a missionary is spread by word of mouth among young Catholics involved at their Newman Centres and Catholic campuses.

There must be some connection,» Walls suggests, «between these events and the missionary movement; and the modern missionary movement, though affected in important ways by earlier influences, took shape as recently as the 19th century.

Missionaries had to pay attention to the faith as it was transmitted to and appropriated by new believers rather than rely on scruples that stemmed from the doctrinal disputes of Europe.

The problems in Africa, as stated in the Matthew Parris article, may be helped somewhat by Christian missionaries, but injecting «faith» into that continent is damaging, at least in the short term.

The issue with Missionary Sisters is as published by Susan Shields.

A similar case can be made in situations where interreligious polemic is accompanied by large - scale political or economic imperialism, as may have been the case in India when Christian missionaries began polemically to engage Brahman intellectuals.

As a missionary hardly a day went by when I didn't get the opportunity to chat to someone about the work Jesus did on the cross.

As a young convert, Oesterreicher was animated by a missionary zeal to convert Jews.

Indeed when my friend Professor Seshagiri Rao, a distinguished Hindu scholar, was asked to address an international Christian missionary conference, he began by saying, «I speak to you as a fellow lover of Jesus Christ...»

It was in the period of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, when England was threatened by the conflagration on the Continent, that such organizations as the London Missionary Society, the Church Missionary Society, and the British and Foreign Bible Society came into being.

Some scientists have gone overseas as medical, agricultural, or scientific missionaries and teachers; are there not in America most of the same opportunities for service to mankind and for witness by word and work to one's religious faith?

Missionaries, usually supported by a military guard, went beyond the borders of white occupation, persuaded the natives to settle down, and taught them the arts of peace and Spanish culture as well as the Christian faith.

Proove what you have said... Read about «eternal marraige», «free agency», «missionary work», and «spreading the gospel»... as well as any other question / statement you might have... and get it from the horses mouth instead of from some second hand account before you post comments about something you just don't understand... make sure you post the whole article you found by way of link and not just paraphase to make it say what you want it to say.

The theater has received glowing reviews for its staging of such plays as Merchant on Venice, which turns Shakespeare's play about Christians and Jews into a story about Muslims and Hindus, and Golden Child, by David Hwang, about the cultural clash between Christian missionaries and the Chinese.

She was joined by Bishop Eddie Long, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Church in Georgia, where she served as an elder at the time.

This book has been hailed by the editor of The Christian Century as «the most important interpretation of Christian missions that has appeared since the modern missionary enterprise was launched, a little more than a hundred years ago.»