Sentences with phrase «century martyr»

The second - century Martyr - Bishop St. Irenaeus of Lyons — no stranger to controversy he — effectively debunked Dan Brown centuries before the rest.

Yet, as the twentieth - century martyr reminds us, we can not speak the last word until we have spoken the next - to - last word.

Looking at a modern day martyr (or a 10th century martyr, or a 6th century martyr, ect.)

In Hodges Chapel at Beeson Divinity School, we have busts of six 20th - century martyrs, one for each inhabited continent.

If that new alignment holds, it may eventually lead to a history - changing revolution in Orthodox understandings of the right relationships among Church, state and society: a development that would, among other things, vindicate the memory of Orthodoxy's twentieth - century martyrs.

In Royal's defense, it can be said that, according to most estimates, more of the twentieth - century martyrs were Catholic than were Protestant or Orthodox.

Royal, president of the Faith and Reason Institute, describes this book as «a comprehensive world history» of twentieth - century martyrs.

Not exact matches

The debate over exactly how many Christians were persecuted and martyred may seem irrelevant centuries later.

one only need look at the Church ih China today and it's growth under Communist persecution to get a mirror image of what it was like for first through third century Christian's as well as Revelation 6:9 - 11 then 14 - 17 nine through elven are the martyrs and 14 through 17 is a glimpse of judgment for men of war!

Further, Christians are still persecuted in much of the world up until today, and this last century has produced more martyrs than all the past 2000 years combined.

There are also essays on such diverse topics as princely martyrs in Kievan Russia, medieval heretics as Protestant martyrs, John Foxe and the politics of Marian persecution, and the veneration of the martyrs of Ikitsuki in the seventeenth century.

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

The blood of Christian martyrs such as Perpetua became «the seed of the church,» said third - century church leader Tertullian.

Thus we read, for example, of martyrs under the Communists, of martyrs in the African church of the twentieth century, and of the Anglican missionary Vivian Redlich, who died at the hands of the Japanese in Papua in 1942.

Some estimates place the number of Christian martyrs in the 20th century at 100 million.

* sigh * people have known for decades if not centuries at least that the numbers of Christians martyred was exaggerated.

For centuries the only way this religion of sword has been able to proliferate has been to brainwash people by getting them angry, and injecting sorrow, into their souls about the dead and martyrs, as well as creating hate towards an enemey, even a made - up one Without a funeral, mourning, and a physical shrine, muslims are lost!

The twenty - first - century Church owes a lot to twentieth - century German Catholicism: for its generosity to Catholics in the Third World; for the witness of martyrs like Alfred Delp, Bernhard Lichtenberg, and Edith Stein; for its contributions to Biblical studies, systematic and moral theology, liturgical renewal, and Catholic social doctrine, through which German Catholicism played a leading role in Vatican II's efforts to renew Catholic witness for the third millennium.

The oft quoted phrase is that there were more martyrs in the 20th century than all the other centuries combined may be hard to substantiate, but certainly there are no signs of the problem abating.

By the second century, Roman soldiers were bringing their new faith to Britain, and in the middle of the third century St. Alban became Britain's first known Christian martyr, but we don't know much more about who these Christians were, and it is here that Malcolm Lambert begins in Pagans and Christians: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede, producing a captivating narrative by squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical record.

More Christians were martyred in the last century...

Tracing the historical story of underground Christians in Japan in the mid-17th century, Endo offers a stark look at the realities of following Christ under persecution, and the intense psychological struggle of a particular priest to know whether it would be better for him to be martyred for his faith or to recant.

Yet, as Dale Ahlquist told me, «we need to expand our ideas about sanctity, and recognize the saints among us in the ordinary world» — not just mystics and martyrs from centuries past.

In the middle of the second century, Justin Martyr said that he would accept those who continued to observe the Torah into Christian fellowship, provided they did not seek to persuade gentile Christians that they too had to follow the Mosaic Law.

Within a half century the Jesuits had lost many martyred priests but had succeeded in winning a number of converts, and, more important for France, they also had won the friendship of a large number of the Indians.

The Catholic Church began compiling «martyrologies» — lists of saints, typically martyrs — during the first centuries after Constantine.

Ever since Bishop Polycarp of Smyrna (Izmir in modern Turkey) was bound and burned at the stake in the mid-second century, Christians have remembered the martyrs in a special way.

Yet, again like Foote, the elegiac southerner who recognized Lincoln's greatness, Parkman was bigger than his point of view and could thus celebrate the heroism of the seventeenth - century Jesuits martyred in the raw wilderness of the New World.

Will we find a home in our midst for leaders of faith movements — the Peter Cartwrights and Frances Willards of the 21st century — who inspire us by living out the two greatest moral lessons of life: «to hear» (which can produce «martyrs») and «to dare» (which can produce «heroes»)?

Our own time is rightly understood as a time of the martyrs, and it is a most encouraging development that Christians today increasingly recognize and revere those members of the several ecclesial communities who, in the century past and still now, offer the ultimate witness to the lordship of Christ.

As early as the second century, Christians gathered for worship at the tombs of the martyrs, celebrating the power of God's grace in the lives of these faithful men and women.

A church which has been over-existentialized for a quarter of a century now, which dotes on «sharing» and «personal growth,» often to the exclusion of any meaningful sense of the corporate, will need to be reminded that such a dimension exists, and that if we do not tell the story of the Confessing Church and the Uganda martyrs, of Selma and Vietnam, we are telling a truncated version.

000s of Christians died martyrs» deaths to uphold this belief in the first 3 centuries.

«Taking turns» refers to antiphonal recitations Justin Martyr, a pagan converted to Christianity in the second century, composed the First Apology and sent it to his Emperor, Antonius Pius.

This story revolves round Onias, a high priest in Jerusalem in the second century BC., reputed to be a holy and righteous man, who was believed by some to have been martyred for his faith.26

Paul Ni Tsiong - Hoi was one of the leading martyrs of the 19th century.

Small wonder that Blessed John Paul, shot in a crowded St Peter's Square in 1981, recognised himself as the Pope in this vision: the vast numbers of Christian martyrs of the bloodstained 20th century were epitomised here, with Mary's plea for prayer and penance echoing authentically across the ruins of so manycities in two world wars and other conflicts.

The martyrs of the first part of the 20th century witnessed to the freedom of heart and spirit, and they were and defenders of human dignity.

Three more were children in 16th - century Mexico who were martyred for embracing the Catholic faith and refusing to return to their ancient conditions.

More Anabaptists were martyred in the 16th century than Christians as a whole in the three centuries of persecution that preceded Constantine.

Looking back to the last century, the author quotes the words of Franz Jägerstätter, martyred for his refusal to serve in the Nazi army, on its being too late to save the world, but never too late to save your own soul, and bring some other souls to Christ

«The brutality of the first - century Roman persecution was real and those early martyrs should be honored,» he wrote for Charisma.

The 144,000 in Revelation 7 and 14 may have included Gentiles, since they represent the martyrs of the 1st century Church.

In evangelical circles one often hears the claim that there were more Christian martyrs in the 20th century than in all previous centuries combined.

That weighty tome tells the stories of martyrs, beginning with Jesus and the apostles, with special attention to the persecution and execution of Anabaptists in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.

It declares there have been some 70 million Christian martyrs in history, and more than 45 million in the 20th century.

Though heralded as atheist martyrs during the nineteenth century, recent scholars hold that the beliefs espoused by Dolet and Vanini are not atheistic in modern terms.

In Africa, toward the end of the third century, many Christians were martyred because they refused to serve in the armies.

And down all the centuries of Christian witness, there have been women saints and martyrs and mystics and missionaries, women in public life and women in families and women in politics and in teaching and in religious enclosure who have been central in the life of the Church.

Thus Justin, the martyr - philosopher of the second century, stated: «All those who have lived by the Logos, i.e., by the eternal, divine World - Reason, are Christians, even if they have been taken as atheists, like Socrates and Heraclitus.»