Sentences with phrase «irony of christian»

It is perhaps the greatest irony of Christian history that the affirmation that alone distinguished the first Christians from other Jews may have been after all contrary to Jesus» own intention and belief.

It is one of the ironies of Christian history that followers of Jesus should present the message not as a wonderful, fulfilling way of life, but as an escape hatch through which people flee from fears created by the misinterpreted message.

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I love the irony of all the other types of christians thinking what the mormons believe is wacky but their belief is not.

After 1848, Chateaubriand's impassioned veneration of Christian art devolved into irony.

The definition of irony is christian fundamentalists raking Islam through the mud when their religion was started by an Arab in the same part of the world.

Or suppose we were to withdraw from the irony of being Christians in these late times and build our medieval communes in the woods.

Christians have celebrated the deaths of tyrants from Nero, to Domitian, to Hitler without hint of irony or violation of the golden rule thoughout the centuries!

Ward and Loughlin are engaged in sophisticated cultural criticism, parody, irony, and a fluid combination of discourses from postmodern philosophy, Christian tradition and gender studies, and both their style and content seem ill at ease with confident programmatic statements and a preference for Augustine / Aquinas as the theological «default setting.»

I suspect that if you took spousal and child abuse statistics in the US (and account at least a little bit for what goes unreported), you'd probably find that the spectrum of our «Christian» nation doesn't exactly have a lot to brag about either (but of course anyone who abuses children or spouse can't POSSIBLY be a «true Christian»... and I hope you see the irony in that remark).

Here is one of the supreme ironies of history: for thousands of years in the Christian West, homosexuals have been the victims of inhospitable treatment — the true crime of Sodom - in the name of a mistaken understanding of Sodom's crime.

One of the ironies of history is that, given a choice between siding with humanists or with scientists, most Christians tend to choose the former.

The central irony of the moral life is that by simply not taking ourselves so seriously, we may become more serious moral agents and more serious Christians.

@Russ — I was being selective with my statement based on the level of irony involved since the GOP considers itself the more christian of our current two major parties.

The irony, of course, is that your post trying to assert that Christians do more good is actually doing bad by discriminating against a particular group.

One of the ironies of the new Christian pessimism is how much it serves the interests of secular progressives.

It is no small irony that Vice President Mike Pence and Franklin Graham, popular figures among many Chaldeans in the US, headlined the first ever World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians last month at the same time as Shaou lingers in custody in Michigan, still facing imminent deportation.

The irony of the apparent impregnability of the Temple would not have been lost on the members of the early Christian community, for whom St John wrote his gospel account.

Anyways, the irony of it is, somebody started actually trolling me... and the people that attacked me let it go... because the guys was trolling Christians, not atheists.

The biggest irony to me is that the Christians are doing the exact opposite of what they should do.

As sarcasm and disdain ensued, I suddenly felt overwhelmed and convicted by the irony of the situation: A bunch of straight Christians were sitting together in a living room, engaging in a lengthy and heated conversation about whether other people were sinning.

The dreadful irony that two of his victims were Christians reminds me of the attack on the Sikh temple in Wisconsin a couple of year ago.

It is not without irony that, in the name of promoting an open dialogue between Christians and Jews, Prof. Novak has displayed a imperious intolerance of genuine dialogue within the Jewish scholarly community.

The stark irony of the prosperity gospel is that it creates poor Christians.

actually many pagans survived and went underground and also in places where the reaches of the catholic church did not get For example a whole other half Europe two whole continents on the other side of the ocean etc Paganism was driven into near extinction by it's brother religion that came from the same roots but it was not at all eradicated The irony find is Christians were persecuted by the Roman empire before the rule of Constantine and then during the burning times persecuted witches and pagans (aswell as non-pagans for corrupted reasons) An oximoron and hypocritical religion

I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.

The history of love is full of ironies and one of those is the Franciscan tradition that this non-intellectual faith with its directness and derogation of philosophy and learning produced a line of Christian philosophers which includes some of the great names in intellectual history: St. Bonaventura, Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham.

Irony besets every action of that strange creature man, and we can only wonder that the ecclesiastical Christian should have ceased to speak about damnation in a century in which guilt and damnation have become an overwhelming motif in so many of the most creative expressions of consciousness and experience.

Indeed, as John McNeill has observed, the use of the Sodom story in the Christian West may be another of those ironies of history.

You believe that if something can not be touched, seen, heard, or measured in some way, then it must not exist, yet you fail to see the irony of your calling Christians «narrow - minded».

McKnight writes, «there is a troubling irony in this approach, and it concerns whether we Christians are to live under the conditions of the fall or under the conditions of the new creation... Sadly, some think Genesis 3:16 is a prescription for the relationship of women and men for all time.

Hard Christian pacifism is perhaps an answer for some (for the pacifistic Stanley Hauerwas, for instance, who, in something of an irony, was named «America's best theologian» by Time magazine only two days before the events of September 11 massively raised the stakes of American pacifism).

Betsy DeVos has served on the board of the Acton Institute which has featured events by Christian Dominionist Gary North who is on record writing, without irony: «So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government.

As the great Italian critic Croce remarks, he had at once the scientific interest in history and human life of the encyclopedists, the irony of Voltaire, and the faith in Christian morals of the Catholic reaction of the early nineteenth century - the reaction whose romantic exaggeration one can see in Chateaubriand Spirit of Christianity.

His work has been exhibited in various solo shows, including S.M.A.K., Gent (2008); Gallery COMA, Berlin (2009); Sculpture Trouvée, Ladendorf (2009); Cabin, Antwerpen (2010); Galerie Guy Pieters, Paris (2011), as well as various group exhibitions, among which The Fate of Irony, KAI 10, Düsseldorf (2010); Ludwig Museum, Köln (2010); The State of Things, Bozar / Namoc, Brussels / Beijing (2010); ABC, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing (2010); Witte de With, Rotterdam (1990, 2011) and at Galery Christian Nagel Köln / Berlin (2011).