Sentences with word «christendom»

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.

The crisis of Christianism came finally through the division of Western Christendom by the Reformation and the wars that followed upon that.

There is much division within Christendom on the best way to interpret the books of Daniel and Revelation.

The Reformation and the religious wars, culminating in the 1648 treaties of Westphalia, destroyed the old medieval common law of Christendom by creating a system of states having diverse confessional allegiances.

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

On the other hand, it is all too easy from our vantage point to behold those faults in the edifice of medieval Christendom which were destined in the long run to bring the whole intricate structure into increasing decay.

Why, it may be asked, is it necessary to link in this manner the Church with Christendom?

(For a fuller account of these projects see Centers of New Life in European Christendom by Walter M. Horton, which may be secured from the American Office of the World Council of Churches, 297 Fourth Ave., New York.

This time period or «presence» will culminate in the destruction of Babylon the Great (Rev 17:5, the world empire of false religion, of which Christendom is a part of) at the hands of the «ten horns», (all the political governments existing during the «Lord's day», Rev 1:10) and their «scarlet - colored wild beast» (Rev 17:16, the United Nations, also called the «image of the wild beast» at Rev 13:15).

Let's note and never forget that, when Islam decided to secede from Christendom which was «to effeminate» for their taste, they kept Hell, the Devil, some Archangels and even the Virgin Mary.

After I wrote The Next Christendom in 2002, I had a bizarre encounter with an elderly and rather aristocratic Episcopal woman, who praised me for how effectively I had delineated the growth of new kinds of Christianity in the global South, with its passion and enthusiasm, its primitive or apostolic quality, its openness to the supernatural.

Yet the core of what might be called Christendom suffered less from external aggression than it had between A.D. 500 and A.D. 950.

But this should not obscure the fact that almost everything has still to be done where the unity of divided Christendom is concerned.

Anyway I understand there are different viewpoints in Christendom on issues but on homosexuality the Bible is unambiguous while extending grace to the sinner.

Working on a narrative - historical theology for the church after Christendom.

Indeed in Western Christendom today it has in certain respects become more widespread than in the eras of the Enlightenment, Classicism, and Romanticism.

With just such an idea in mind — namely, that the needed transformation of our natural loves may seem akin to dying — Josef Pieper once recalled that charity has been pictured by Christians as a consuming fire, and that it is therefore «much more than an innocuous piety when Christendom prays, «Kindle in us the fire of Thy love.

The fragmentation of the church meant that western Christendom no longer had a unified organizational structure.

One possibility is to acknowledge the particularity of liberalism and modernity: Both are very specific cultural products of Latin Christendom.

These are the encouraging signs, that from the decaying structure of medieval Christendom there is beginning to emerge the new form of the church as the community of faith, whose role it is to serve all mankind by being the leaven of faith, hope and love in a distressed world.

Her take on it is the one that most of the authority figures in Christendom don't want to hear.

First, that it has been related to the 18th and 19th century expansion of western power in the world accompanied by the hope that all the world would soon come under Christendom.

The practice of numbering years consecutively from the supposed year of Christ's birth didn't take hold in Western Christendom until the eighth century.

Roger Williams and William Penn, along with other Baptists and Quakers, put the Bible to use against Christendom.

They are the imaginative product of late Christendom at the threshold of modernity, an exorbitant flourishing of the riches of a fully formed and complex civilization.

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?

For instance, that climate was shaped by the expansion of western power and knowledge in the world accompanied by the certainty that all the world would soon become Christendom displacing all other religions and cultures.

Yet now all seems to have remained more or less as it was before: theologians still struggle painfully with their problems, their is still a bureaucratic administration which seems to prefer the letter to the spirit, there is still no united Christendom, but we are still divided, fearing and mistrusting each other on both sides of the fence.

He was in Rome for a semester of study with Christendom College.

Of course, Wesley was preoccupied with bringing the gospel to those within Christendom who had not appropriated it.

The French Revolution demolished the alliance of throne and altar that had characterized Catholic Christendom for a thousand years.

Christians who believed in Christendom believed that they could discern this in world - historical developments.

That is hardly our problem, however, for, as Richard observes, whatever one thought about Christendom, and Richard thought generally it to be a good thing, such a world is no longer available.

We have here again the understanding of the Church as a mediaeval Christendom where all structures and levels of knowledge are determined and controlled by theology and tradition.

By «what pertains to human beings by nature,» I mean what is essential and universal for human beings, at least since the Axial Age beginning circa 800 b.c. and probably since the Neolithic era beginning circa 9500 b.c. I make claims about anthropological universals, which should apply to human beings in all other cultures, not just Christendom or the West.

Eastern Christendom bore the brunt of the military and cultural advance of Islam and suffered quite heavy losses.

Would Noll agree that his narrative implies that Protestant commitment to individual interpretation of Scripture makes a Protestant biblical Christendom impossible to sustain?

I've been lamenting over the West because it was once Christendom before and I remember those days.

Threats just as serious to the vitality of Christendom came from within, from a succession of schismatic and heretical movements.

The east - west schism left Christendom intact but in two sections, geographically separate from each other.

Whatever else it may mean, the collapse of Christendom means the church's loss of the scaffolding of a supporting culture.

Mission as expansion of Christendom through conversion and church growth was a dominant view during the Western colonial period.