Sentences with phrase «from christendom»

If change is such a natural part of life, why does it seem that change is so often absent from Christendom?

The very fact that our present is so detached from its past, from Christendom, with its corollary that an acceptance of the present demands a negation of Christendom, of the Christian God, can mean that the horizon of our present will open into a future epiphany of faith that will draw all things into itself.

Certainly the global, humanistic and secular world looks very different from Christendom, just as the butterfly looks so different from the grub out of which it sprang.

Contrary to what I'd heard from Christendom, God is not ruling this world at this time.

Apart from Christendom the world is the madhouse described so accurately each morning in the daily press.

The reaching out from Christendom to «mission fields» in the «non-Christian lands» was the basic way of doing mission.

Let's note and never forget that, when Islam decided to secede from Christendom which was «to effeminate» for their taste, they kept Hell, the Devil, some Archangels and even the Virgin Mary.

Biraq, don't forget that medicine, education and agricultural technologies from Christendom and Christian missionaries have been saving the whole humanity.

Not exact matches

Such correction happened only in Christendom and the freedom of coscience spreaded to all over the world from that.

A government which systematically and publicly seeks to buttress its political legitimacy from Christian Bibles, oaths, clergy, and prayer, in continuum with more than a millennium of political leaders within Christendom, is not acting «neutrally» among religions, or between religion and non-religion.

The third in a projected seven - volume history of Christendom, this one covers the period from 1100 to 1517.

First, the church was the dynamic force transforming the classical world from Roman Empire to Christendom, just as the church's dismemberment dynamically transformed Europe in the sixteenth century.

Catholics, who had tolerated a degree of ethnocentrism within the Church, learned from Hitler that national idolatry was Christendom's deadliest foe.

Of great interest to me, as with all documents written during the first three centuries of the church, is to read what things were like before the conversion of Constantine when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, and transformed from a simple way of following Jesus into the powerful Christendom that still rules today.

There is marked divergence of thought on who God is, from being called Allah by Muslims to being nameless by the churches of Christendom, to the Jews having replaced God's name with G - d, to the Hindus worshiping millions of gods.

It is impossible to question the immense stimulus, spiritual and intellectual, which a large part of Christendom received from the opening up of the Bible at the Reformation.

These «deviations from the tradition of the Early Church... increasingly estrange Anglicanism from the Orthodox Church and contribute to a further division of Christendom as a whole».

Abelard, «like Origen, like Montaigne, is one of those figures about whom Christendom has never felt quite certain, and yet from whom Christendom has derived much energy.»

«Christendom» not only did not decline from this time, but with its famous doctrine of cuius regio, eius religio, its underlying logic received powerful, official sanction, and it has continued on in the fragmented territorial or «state churches» of the emergent European nation - states.

To find these real causes of the modern drift from the Church in Christendom we need to go much further back into the case history of the modern malaise than the more dramatic symptoms of the current year of grace or disgrace.

«In time we will rediscover prayer as the invisible centre and foundation of culture... and from that centre will be born a new civilization... a Christendom, but distinguished from the old Christendom not least by the fact that it will be shaped by many religious traditions.»

Aristotle was new and controversial in the world of 13th century Christendom, having come to Europe via translation from the Muslim world.

For the first time in Christendom there was legal religious freedom as distinct from toleration in a commonwealth.

From this perspective it would even be possible to understand Christendom's religious reversal of the movement of Spirit into flesh as a necessary consequence of the Incarnation, preparing the way for a more comprehensive historical realization of the death of God by its progressive banishment of the dead body of God to an ever more transcendent and inaccessible realm.

What eventually emerged from the chrysalis of early Christianity was Christendom, ruled by an ecclesiastical institution which inherited the structures of imperial Rome.

Only such a dialectical negation can save the meaning of faith from the darkness brought on by the collapse of Christendom.

From the beginning, he rebelled against God, or against the God then present in Christendom, ironically disguising his attack by presenting him under the guise of a number of simple though powerful symbols, the most successful of which is surely the «Tyger.»

We might call it «Christendom» since the term «Christian» is used from time to time in Scripture.

Sir Winston and other greats of Western civilization notwithstanding, our good priest from Thebes would have felt most uncomfortable at Trent or in other contemporary centers of Christendom where dogmas were held in high regard.

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.

Credence must be given to the writer in one area though in that Christendom has failed in some ways to properly «speak» or represent Christ from their pulpits and daily walk; some spew out false doctrine and self - serving «religiosity» that one can not be surprised that the Enemy (Satan) is now using those same words and actions to accuse them through writers such as we see here.

Ergo, taking the Bible as the honest word of the Deity, as mainstream Christendom has done shows that from the very start of Christianity the teaching of the rapture has been a valid part of the Christian faith.

At the collapse of Christendom and when the major direction of mission changed from «foreign mission» to «world mission,» [43] the notion of identifying «non-Christian lands» as «mission fields» was gradually abandoned.

No uniform pattern emerges, but the variety will be a source of ferment as the Holiness and Pentecostal churches continue to assert themselves and to emerge from isolation to claim a significant place among other churches of Christendom.

They also ignore the rise of the secularized nation - state from the decay of «Christendom»; yet these new government regimes provided much of the impetus to maximize the exploitation of resources and the discovery of new lands.

Best of all, even though Unchurching is a critical look at the church and contains a call for people to follow Jesus away from the four walls of Christendom, the book is incredibly gracious and kind.

The strongest challenges to a biblical Christendom in America came not, as in Europe, from secular thinkers, but from fellow biblicists.

Initially it was a great boon, bringing a release from the severe restrictions Jews had long lived under within Christendom.

And it is precisely for this reason that Christendom (here is the proof of it) is so far from being what it calls itself that the lives of most men are, Christianly understood, too spiritless even to be called in a strictly Christian sense sin.

For Christendom in earlier times the Church was the plank of salvation in the shipwreck of the world, the small barque on which alone men are saved, the small band of those who are saved by the miracle of grace from the massa damnata, and the extra ecclesiam nulla salus was understood in a very exclusive and pessimistic sense.

From the Middle Ages onwards, it was precisely in Christendom that the attitude to the natural world was the fertile ground in which the beginnings of modern science and technology would arise.

Christendom is wrought full of many religious diversisms that may endure till the world fries from either the sun expanding or the galactic elements sending a great burst of gamma radiation to destroy half of this world's facing such a catastrophic thing!

Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keeps one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so portends there to be...

Bonhoeffer analyzes Western Christendom from this perspective.

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.

Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keep one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so potentially claims there to be...

This statistical tilting of Christendom from the north to the south, after 2,000 years, holds tremendous prospects and challenges.

AC, Christendom's Churches are Yes, born from the RCC (Roman Catholic Church).

Thus, if it is true, as has been claimed, that the idea of Christendom and the doctrines of Christian orthodoxy, were not at all what the historical Jesus had in mind when he spoke of the Kingdom of God, we should not be surprised if the continuing stream of cultural influence which he was so instrumental in re-directing should in the future manifest itself in ways very different from the conventional Christianity it later became for a period.

In Part 3 of the book, she describes this shift in terms of a «gathering center» in which Christians from the four corners (or quadrants) of Western Christendom — conservatives, renewalists, liturgicals, and social justice Christians — are moving toward the center, grabbing bits and pieces from each tradition and putting them together to make something entirely new.