Sentences with phrase «gulf between christians»

Unapologetic Christian conviction vying in the public square does not exacerbate the gulf between Christians and others.

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The continent's widespread loss of Christian faith has hardened hearts, creating a gulf between secularized citizens, and deeply religious immigrants.

``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»

While the radical Christian tends to identify «religion» with the established beliefs and practices of the Christian Church, it is nonetheless true that a new form of Christianity appears in the radical Christian which establishes a new and deeper gulf between Christianity itself and the world of non-Christian religion.

In past ages some have talked as if there were a gulf between these two; and in reaction from that utter separation, some have talked as if there were no distinction between them, The fact is that throughout Christian history, whatever may have been the theory accepted as valid, there has been precisely such a distinction.

Such moments reveal what Christian writer C.S. Lewis called «our inconsolable secret,» our universal longing to bridge a gulf between our ordinary lives and this extraordinary life set before us.

T. S. Eliot, in his essay on «Religion and Literature,» neatly sums up both the approach and the goal: «So long as we are conscious of the gulf fixed between ourselves [as Christians] and the greater part of contemporary [culture], we are more or less protected from being harmed by it, and are in a position to extract from it what good it has to offer us.»

The net effect of the Crusades was to weaken the Byzantine Empire, to deepen the gulf between the Eastern and Western wings of the Catholic Church, and permanently to embitter relations between Christians and Moslems.

Islam, possessing much in apparent accord with Christianity, including a belief in one God and the ascription to God of many characteristics wholeheartedly accepted by the Christian, emphatically insists that God can not have a son, and that the gulf between God and man can not be bridged.

This fact alone should qualify Dayton as the Belt's official «buckle,» but if you're not yet convinced, consider Rhea County's 250 churches, thriving Christian college campus, weekly McDonald's gospel sing, and solidly Southern location halfway between the Mason Dixon line to the north and the Gulf of Mexico to the south.

The Villarreal boss also highlighted the gulf in spending power between the two clubs, claiming that his club's annual turnover is about the same amount the Reds paid to acquire the services of Christian Benteke.

Charles and Emma were happy in each other, but both were painfully aware of the gulf between her deep Christian faith and his increasing religious doubt.