Sentences with phrase «divided christendom»

We firmly believe that a way may be found through the maze of divided Christendom out into the open spaces of Christian union only as the people of Christ follow the golden thread of an earnest desire to know and do his will.

The disintegration of a divided Christendom had led reformers and counter-reformers to dismantle ecclesial unity but to keep the notion of revealed religion.

And in 1937, Yves Congar, later one of the principal theologians at the Second Vatican Council (1962 — 65), wrote a groundbreaking book entitled Divided Christendom, in which he argued for the authentic gifts found in Protestantism and insisted that one could affirm the same biblical truth from different perspectives.

Given a violently divided Christendom, the only sensible solution appeared to be to excise from political life the cause of these horrors - namely, particular theological claims - and to replace them with universally acceptable principles derived from human nature and natural law.

To be sure, there is the «hot, sweet Catholicism» of his aunt, the «stern and unyielding Calvinism» of the Presbyterian cook, the lukewarm Anglicanism of his boarding school («a religion that «Never Went Too Far»)-- all part of the warmed - over stew of a divided Christendom long past its prime, of which only the «warm gravy of Catholicism retains a little flavor.

Not exact matches

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.

This is one area in which Christendom's traditional dividing lines are breaking down and ecumenical connections are being strengthened.

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?

The churches of Christendom are divided among themselves in some 41,000 different denominations and sects, whereas Muslims are divided into Shiite and Sunni, as well as Jews are divided among Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism.

Had the civil monarchs early scored a complete victory, in Western Christendom the Church would have been divided into many national churches and Christianity would have been fully subordinated to secular interests.

Even within the historic religions, archaic forms reassert themselves, as when Christians divide the world into «Christendom» and the pagan realms of devil worshipers, or when Muslims divide the world into «the house of Islam» and «the house of war» — that is, all those domains beyond the reach of Muslim political power.

The liberal ecumenists spoke of the «reunion» of Christendom, even though most scholars say earliest Christianity was itself divided and complex, an intricate web whose essences and outlines can not be retrieved.