Sentences with phrase «earliest days of christianity»

From the earliest days of Christianity, the Gospels» resemblance to certain myths has been used as an argument against Christian faith.

It was the latest religious controversy in the heavily Christian Air Force, but this particular issue has ancient and somewhat surprising roots: In the early days of Christianity, it was Christians who refused to swear by powers they didn't believe in.

7), some information about the early days of Christianity in Asia Minor.

The Early Days of Christianity Women have suffered second - class citizenship for so long that it is hardly surprising if nowadays we are suspicious that it is not God but man who continues to debar...

There are a lot of cultural things back in those days, the early days of Christianity, things which we really won't know or understand, regardless of how much we study them.

[26] «This account gives us a rare insight into the thoughts of a Christian martyr and an even rarer insight into the experience of a woman in the early days of Christianity.»

In the early days of Christianity, there was a general belief among Christians that the world was coming to an end in the lifetime of people then living.

It is significant in this connection that in the early days of Christianity, the Creed — not the Apostles», but the Nicene — began with the Greek word p s t e n w m e n «we believe.»

The Vatican Library set up a new deal a week ago with texts from the early days of Christianity.

Not exact matches

A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

Modern Christianity is apt to look back upon the religion of Puritan days as joyless; yet as we have earlier suggested it may be questioned whether there is not a greater lack of joy in modern religion, with so many of its exponents tied up in nervous knots.

Rodney Stark's The Rise of Christianity chronicles how early Christians lived out their faith in stark contrast to the morality of the day (I will highlight this in the last point).

The way in which this was done in an earlier day certainly can not be ours in this time; but the vision, insight, intuition, conviction — call it what you will — that Jesus Christ establishes with the transcendent a «new relation» into which «in rite, celebration, meditation, way of life» (to use Miss Emmet's phrases) we are permitted to enter and to have it made our own — notice I did not say «make our own», which would deny the divine priority in this event — is Christianity.

Jesus and the Economic Questions of His Day, Studies in Bible and Early Christianity, Vol.

The question modern readers have to answer is whether the Greco - Roman household codes reflected upon in Ephesians, Colossians, and 1 Peter are in and of themselves holy and divinely instituted, or if their appearance in Scripture represents the early church's attempt to blend Christianity and culture in such a way that it would preserve the dignity of adherents while honoring prevailing social and legal norms of the day.

This is the clear difference between martyrdoms of early Christianity and present day martyrdoms.

Lets see here — Christianity in its early days, however pure, from the start of its «invention» is nothing but that, Invention.

When, in the earliest days of the Church, men and women who had been converted to Christianity were to be welcomed into membership in the Christian fellowship, incorporated into the Church, it was required that they should profess their belief in Christ as the Messiah — which is to say, God's special representative for the establishment of His kingdom among men — and as the Son of God — that is, as uniquely related to the Father of all mankind.

From its earliest days, Christianity fostered gender - segregated cloisters, devoted alike to the glory of God and the preservation of learning.

A cool, beautiful professor of early Christianity, Sara Farnese was in the Vatican library on that fateful day, a witness to her colleague's strange outburst and death.