Sentences with phrase «first evangelised»

Whether Christianity came to these places independent of one another and which one of them was the first evangelised are difficult questions for the Asian church historians to decide.

Not exact matches

As one of the Second Vatican Council's more enthusiastic experts — as well as one of its first critical interlocutors during the years of its sometimes questionable presentation in the popular imagination — Ratzinger can scarcely be accused of having a less than astute sense of the context within which the Church has to evangelise.

In his first lecture Dulles notes that there has been a blindness to the missionary imperative of the Second Vatican Council, and reminds us that the Council in line with tradition calls for all people to be evangelised, and reminds us that sadly many within the Church «know a good many doctrines of the Church but seem never to have encountered the living Christ».

Paul insists on his Roman citizenship in this Roman colony, and the range and differing social backgrounds of his converts back up one of his key evangelising principles, flowing from his knowledge of the Son of God as the «first born of many brothers» (Rom 8:29 - 31) as well as «of creation» (Col. 1:15): that in Christ there is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female (Gal 3:28).

For example, East Africa was evangelised, it is true, first by missionaries, but it was the East African Revival that set the pattern for holiness, for a vigour of lifestyle in relationship with Christ that so impressed an 18 year old teaching at Kiburu Secondary school.

She was nominated for her first games media award while still at university, and now balances video production with freelancing for publications like Official PlayStation magazine, talking about key industry issues at conerences around the world, and appearing on national media like BBC Radio to evangelise gaming culture.