Sentences with phrase «images by the missionaries»

In fact, the use of such images by the missionaries to get across the Christian message obviously reinforced some of the Pulayas» pre-existing notions of God.

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The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver tells the story of a ferocious, god - in - my - own - image missionary, his wife, and their four daughters.

The image of «total stranger» the stallkeepers had of the Western missionary was completely belied by this exposure.

Awkward (and often outdated) pull - down maps for Sunday school classes, for example, are being replaced by software - generated images of the ancient Near East, whereby Bibles students can trace the missionary journeys of Paul or follow the exodus route of the Israelites.

This image of the Virgin Mary dates from the early 16th century and believed to have been brought to San Juan de los Lagos by missionaries from Michoacn.

Yes she entertained dreams of being a missionary, but those dreams are built on self - aggrandizing fantasies: images of her being carried on a «magnificent schooner with sails like angel wings» (a marked contrast to the slave ship that transported Ajarry to her fate); her as a courageous and heroic savior received by grateful and adoring natives «lifting her to the sky, praising her name: Ethel, Ethel» (I thought missionaries served to praise God, not Saint Ethel).