Sentences with phrase «century apologists»

This means «equipping the saints» to be twenty - first - century apologists who can (pace Pope Francis) offer compassionate aid to the walking wounded of postmodern society, explain the truths about the human person that the Church believes are essential to a truly human political community, and, if necessary, hold fast to Gospel - based Christian moral convictions even if that means professional or economic distress.

That move began much earlier, with the same second - century apologists whom she extols as champions of liberty.

Justin Martyr, the 2nd century apologist, declared that Jesus Christ «is the Reason of which every race of man partakes.

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Such accusations were presented by the Roman Critic Celsus (citing Jewish traditions) in the 2nd century AD and of course, denied by Christian Apologists.

That distinguishes him from the great apologists, G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, for example, with whom the century began.

Apologists have been changing the supposedly inerrant word of God for centuries to suit their purpose and that includes your twisted interpretations Theo.

Steven Carr Apologists have been changing the supposedly inerrant word of God for centuries to suit their purpose and that includes your twisted interpretations Theo.

In this late 20th Century, churches face a situation unprecedented since the Church's formation (comparable in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice - and by implication God's revelation - are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural development.

In the late 20th Century, churches face a situation unprecedented since the Church's formation (comparable in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice — and by implication God's revelation — are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural development.

Orthodox apologists believe that two Catholic priests died in the eleventh century as God's punishment for trying to obtain the Holy Fire for themselves, mimicking the account in Leviticus 10:1 - 3 where Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu are killed by God for offering unauthorised fire.

The 20th - century journalist and Christian apologist G. K. Chesterton once said, «There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

Though of far smaller scale and import, the war on «values» is reminiscent of the heated dispute between the great apologists during the first centuries over Greek «inculturation.»

A compact survey of Justin's thought is found in Robert M. Grant, Greek Apologists of the Second Century (London: SCM Press Ltd., 1988), pp. 50 - 73.

That their person, their life, and their bearing in death can none the less be honoured by Christians as the apologists of the second century have shown.

That their person, their life, and their bearing in death can none the less be honoured by Christians, the apologists of the second century have shown.

Their chosen quote, and I hope you can read it with as much incredulous merriment as I did, «When the intellectual authors of the modern right created its doctrines in the 1950s, they drew on nineteenth - century political thought, borrowing explicitly from the great apologists for slavery, above all, the intellectually fierce South Carolinian John C. Calhoun.»

It has not, however, been as prominent in the actual life and thought of religious communities — even in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when the argument from design was frequently presented by Christian apologists.

Hence we find the apologist Justin, for example, declaring» scarcely a century after Jesus» that «those who, before Christ, led a life accompanied by reason are Christians, even if they were known as atheists.

That said, I do happen to regard Bishop Wright as one of the most effective apologists for Christianity in this dawning century, not so much for his Simply Christian as for his magnificent trilogy on the historical Jesus, especially the last volume, The Resurrection of the Son of God.

Indeed, C.S. Lewis one of the foremost Anglican Christian apologists of the twentieth century wrote, in the context of a discussion of divorce: