Sentences with phrase «imitation of christian»

Not only are you a poor imitation of Sancho Panza, you're an even worse imitation of a Christian.

Otherwise, the Wahhabi fanatics condemned mevlud as an imitation of Christian devotions to Jesus.

The atheist chaplaincy is just a maudlin imitation of Christian life: weekly meetings, text studies, tithes, and even rallies (revivals?)

Our narrations are, by degrees of approximation, imitations of Christians and of Christ himself.

Not exact matches

As Christians, our most «deeply held religious belief» is that Jesus Christ died on the cross for sinful people, and that in imitation of that, we are called to love God, to love our neighbors, and to love even our enemies to the point of death.

Catholic laymen must take up their place in life and face their family, their love, their children (who perhaps do not always come up to their expectations), their professional duties which grow ever more irksome and their duties as citizens; in doing so they will meet situations in which, because they reflect on their faith, they will know how to behave as Christians living in the grace of God, the light of the gospel and the imitation of the crucified Christ.

Burridge argues that this theme of imitation is constantly carried into the early Christian community through the letters of Paul.

In one of the early sessions I was suddenly reminded of Elijah's posture of despair on Mt. Carmel (1 Kings 18:42) and of the later Christian hesychasts» imitation of this posture in the practice of the Jesus prayer — their theory being that the posture expressed physically the «bringing of the mind down into the heart.»

In a much more abstract sense one may speak of Christian discipleship as imitation.

A few had cheap imitations bought from the merchants on Christian Quarter Road, swatches of cloth with printed Halloween scenes on them.

We saw above that Mark 9.1, although introduced by it, owes its present form to Mark, and we must recognize the very real possibility that the characteristic early Christian conviction that the Lord who spoke is the Lord who speaks has led to an imitation of the very style of that speech, at any rate to a limited extent.

A leading characteristic of the post — Vatican II period has been the thorough study and imitation of early Christian worship.

It might have seemed of small account that in their processions the boys of Catholic Action walked in threes, in imitation of the Fascist militia, and not in fours, as they had done up to 1922; that they carried their flags with the staffs resting on their stomachs, again in imitation of the Fascists, and not on their shoulders, as had been the custom before the March on Rome; that even the most obscure parish magazines and journals of religious associations showed the year of the regime along - side that of the Christian era; and that Catholics habitually observed all the outward forms of Fascism, beginning with the Roman salute and the conversational use of voi, abandoning, because the Duce so willed it, the age - old use of the third person as the polite form of address.

Making sense of Christian history as a living resource, peopled not with venerated abstractions but men and women as alive and individual as you or I, seems critical at a time when storytelling and imitation are more the province of secular entertainment than sacred order.

In a case such as this, where an early Christian prophet is certainly offering to his church an apocalyptic discourse in the name of the risen Lord, the imitation of the dominical style would be perfectly natural.

The interest in Asian religion so manifest in the 1960s can be traced back to his time at Columbia University in the 30s, where he discussed oriental scriptures with a Hindu monk, Mahabarata Bramachari, who also urged him to read Christian mystical literature, such as the Confessions and the Imitation of Christ.

Those fashionistas who love to shock the audience with a perfect purchase an original option will become those presented by Irregular Choice fashion designer with the imitation of firebird feather, as well as bright multicolored models from Christian Louboutin.

Oscar winner Christian Bale (The Fighter, the Dark Knight trilogy) as the cunning panther, Bagheera; Oscar winner Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine, The Aviator) as the sinister snake, Kaa; Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game, Avengers: Infinity War) as the fearsome tiger, Shere Khan; Oscar nominee Naomie Harris (Moonlight, Skyfall) as Nisha, the female wolf, who adopts the baby Mowgli as one of her cubs; and Andy Serkis (the Planet of the Apes trilogy, Star Wars: The Last Jedi) as the wise bear, Baloo.

The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson, Producers The Imitation Game Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman, Producers Selma Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers The Theory of Everything Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten, Producers Whiplash Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster, Producers

Picture «American Sniper» Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan, Producers = yay «Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)» Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole, Producers = barf «Boyhood» Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland, Producers = okay «The Grand Budapest Hotel» Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson, Producers = ugh «The Imitation Game» Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman, Producers = whatevs «Selma» Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers = yay «The Theory of Everything» Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten, Producers = lol «Whiplash» Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster, Producers = lol

«American Sniper» Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan, Producers «Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)» Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole, Producers «Boyhood» Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland, Producers «The Grand Budapest Hotel» Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson, Producers «The Imitation Game» Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman, Producers «Selma» Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers «The Theory of Everything» Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten, Producers «Whiplash» Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster, Producers

The show includes works from the 1930s to the present and ranges from Daniel Spoerri's assemblages to Roman Signer's everyday objects to Christian Rothacher's oddities and Fischli / Weiss's imitations of objects.