Sentences with phrase «first edict»

What would your first edict be if you achieved this goal?

A first edict in 257 for the first time banned Christian worship.

When the first edict went out under Haman, do you remember?

When he saw that the first edict was not sufficient to torture Christians, he passed another edict in 258 AD.

In the 1500s, King Sigismund of Transylvania, who was converted to Unitarianism by his court minister, issued the world's first Edict of Religious Toleration, allowing his subjects to choose to observe religions other than the King's.

Indeed, in 1933, one of the first edicts of Nazi Germany was to ban shechita as inhumane.

Not exact matches

-1384), who produced the first English Bible (in 1382, not keeping it in Latin as the official language of the church), was condemned by Pope Gregory XI, issuing five edicts against him.

It seems probable that Nero's implication of the Christians in the fire of Rome was the first occasion on which such an imperial edict was specifically applied to Christians; once issued, the edict, put into force only sporadically and in particular regions during the next century, was to menace Christians with persecution whenever they grew strong or incurred the enmity of pagan or Jewish neighbours.

When the inquisitors arrived in a locality, the first step was the proclamation of the Edict of Grace, which listed the various heresies against the Faith and encouraged sinners to «relieve their consciences».

The Byzantine emperors who first issued the edict to smash and destroy the icons (Leo the Isaurian and his son Constantine V, both of whom reigned in the eighth century) do remind one of Oliver Cromwell, for both sets of rulers were military leaders with a loyal army from the provinces; such figures often have a puritanical streak and tend, moreover, to command soldiers who themselves are suspicious of the decadent mores of the cities.

It was in the first year of his assumption of Babylonian rule that he set in motion the machinery for Judah's renewal with a favorable edict permitting and supporting the return of exiles and the rebuilding of the Temple.

If we can take the year 30 A.D. as the date of the historic beginning of Christian history and 313 A.D., the date of the edict of Milan, as the moment when Christianity was legitimized in the Roman Empire, then the first major chunk of history is in focus.

The edict is sent out on the thirteenth day of the first month.

Thus the not - really - an - Edict of Nicomedia and Elsewhere cemented into the foundations of the West ideas first sketched by the Christian philosopher Lactantius: that coercion and true religious faith don't mix because «God wishes to be adored by people who are free» (as Joseph Ratzinger would rewrite Lactantius a millennium and a half later, in the 1986 Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation).

In the first instance, the heads of Pakistani players were shaved off — for they violated the dress code of Taliban by wearing shorts; and, in the second case, the players were chased away from the stadium by bearded thugs because the timing of the match violated a recent edict of Taliban's spiritual leader, which prohibits the people from taking part in any sports activity after 4 pm.

Also gifting us the immediately gif - able moment of Tatum's sailor routine, the Coens appear to be following the Old Hollywood edict of giving the people what they want and have pretty much guaranteed that we'll be first in line to see it next year.

One of the first things interim Superintendent Ramon Cortines did when he took over was to reverse Deasy's edict and lift the ban on parent triggers.

Romero appealed to Cortines to overturn Deasy's edict, embracing the spirit of the law in his first school board meeting last month.

This overwhelmingly «christian» congress represents an overwhelming «christian» nation has that: performs a million abortions a year, has out 40 % of births out of wedlock (approaching 70 percent in minority communities), has a Supreme Court that has ruled that virtual child pornography is protected by the first amendment, has a culture that teaches ever younger girls (through movies, music, tv, books and magazines) that their primary function is as living sex toys for men, forces religions to provide insurance to include abortifacients against their faith, and is rapidly redefining marriage by judicial edict.

Employers love candidates who can edict all that they are capable of in the very first sentence that they write.