Sentences with phrase «holy war tradition»

The writer to the Ephesians reclaims and transforms the holy war tradition.

It is worth noting that the earthquakes and their accompaniments are echoes of various stories in the holy war tradition.

Not exact matches

As distinguished from people holding to pacifism or the «holy war,» people holding to the just war tradition claim to make decisions on the empirically knowable facts of the case.

Among his earlier works are The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions and Can Modern War Be Just?

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

«Widespread criticisms of jihad in Islam and the so - called sword verses in the Quran have unearthed for fair - minded Christians difficult questions about Christianity's own traditions of holy war and «texts of terror.»