Sentences with phrase «into paganism»

Director Robin Hardy and musical director Gary Carpenter remember a descent into paganism that started in a Manhattan hotel room and ended up with the film company rubbishing their own work

When the Nazis claimed that the pre-Christian German tribes were of a superior race, Faulhaber responed: «It is an historic fact that this swarm of tribes were first wielded together into stable unity as one nation in consequence of their conversion to Christianity... the greatest perversion would be a relapse into the paganism of ancient Germany.»

David read the whole sentence and then read the whole book, then go and study what the Hebrews were doing at that time, falling into paganism, specifically the babylonian stuff going on.

His aim was not to martyr Christians but to reconvert them into paganism, and to make them Apostates.

Yet, ever and always, they, like Christians before them, fall easily into idolatry» and thereby lapse into paganism.

He believed that unless England and America recovered a form of Christian society, they would fall into the paganism that had overtaken Germany and Russia.

Not exact matches

One the one hand, paganism and mystical religions seek salvation in a vertical movement of integration with the absolute, either by an ascent into the One or by a descent into the soul, On the other hand, Judaism looks for salvation in the horizontal movement of history, in the advent of a new era.

the early church was (for the most part) more flawed and now guilty of crimes against God in that there have been abominations such as the catholic church that bring paganism into people as something of God

This mere thought of taking time upon one's conscience of giving it time to explore with its sleepless vigilance every secret thought, with such effect that, if every instant one does not make the movement by virtue of the highest and holiest there is in a man, one is able with dread and horror to discover (People do not believe this in our serious age, and yet it is remarkable that even in paganism, less easy - going and more given to reflection, the two outstanding representatives of the Greek as a conception of existence intimated each in his way that by delving deep into oneself one would first of all discover the disposition to evil.

I can not at this point enter into the discussion of types of Diaspora Judaism affected by contact with paganism; I wish only to record my conviction (1) that Paul's Judaism was not of the orthodox Palestinian type, which later became normal, and normative; and (2) that early Gentile Christianity, both before Paul and also outside the area of his influence, was far more substantial than the Book of Acts and the surviving Pauline letters have led many to assume.

During and after the Exile, the struggle of the Jews against being assimilated by paganism so coerced them into stressing their differentials and, as always in such a case, so led them to stress obvious peculiarities which are external, that Judaism emerged into a new era of accentuated legalism and ritualism.

True, this anti-Christian faith is coming into action under different names in different parts of the world; but the more these alternative versions of the postwar paganism insist upon their points of difference — the more they abuse and attack one another — the more clearly they betray their kinship with one another to the eyes of the Christian observer.

Hitler started as a Christian, but he morphed into his own delusional paganism.

It is quite right for one to say that paganism did not possess faith, but if with this one is to have said something, one must be a little clearer about what one understands by faith, since otherwise one falls back into such phrases.

Instead lightning struck the tree splitting it into four equal parts whereby it was the more readily cut up into planks for the construction of a church.59 Here is a symbol of the way in which paganism was incorporated into Christianity.