Sentences with phrase «disturbed early church»

· These eight verses of resurrection narrative in Mark's gospel so disturbed the Early Church that twelve more verses of appearances of the risen Christ were added on to the original formula.

The product of a church history of sex negative hysteria started by deeply disturbed early church fathers bearing little to no basis in honest scriptural teaching.

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The writer has in view the disturbed political situation of the late fifties or early sixties, the «wars and rumours of wars» upon the eastern frontier of the Empire, the famines and earthquake shocks recorded under Claudius and Nero, and the growing isolation and unpopularity of the Christian Church; but he is concerned to assure his readers that» the end is not yet.»