Sentences with phrase «later as monks»

Some Christians gave up all their possessions and lived as hermits, and later as monks.

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In regards to your comment «the fact that you even know about Euhemerus is a product of Christian learning and appreciation of alternate views», we should, indeed, be thankful for early Christian monks who helped preserve the knowledge of prior centuries, but perhaps you are unaware of the contribution of Greek civilization to Western culture and the «Age of Enlightenment» in late 17th century Europe with figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, etc..

Small but growing numbers of Christian theologians in Europe and North America have begun to meet regularly with Buddhists to foster mutual understanding and growth, one result of which is the recently established international Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies.4 In addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (Walker).

«Though I lived as a monk without reproach, I felt that I was a sinner before God with an extremely disturbed conscience,» he later wrote.

The material contained in the latest collection of Dom Hugh's writings is, as its title «Monastic Markers on the Christian Way» suggests, primarily aimed at building up the lives of the monks in his care, but the practical insights into living the Christian life contained here have a wider relevance for all who search for deeper communion with the mystery of God.

It also featured extensively in later legend as the place where the prophet Muhammad met the Christian monk Bahira, who acknowledged his prophetic destiny.

In the late seventeenth and eighteenth century similar aspirations were felt from time to time, but the only conspicuous Anglican ascetic is the controversial theologian, spiritual guide, and mystical writer William Law, who would certainly have found his place as a monk, or perhaps a hermit, in other ages of the Church.

The Court of Appeals for this Circuit in the Gaidry case took note of these two cases, but held them not reconcilable with the later ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Baglin v. Cusenier, 221 U. S. 680 [1 T. M. Rep. 147], wherein it was held that the fact that the primary meaning of the word «Chartreuse» was geographical did not prevent the acquisition of the exclusive right to its use as the designation of a liqueur made by the monks of the Monastery of La Grande Chartreuse.

After this morning's jog, he will have lunchwith Steve Wynn, whose name is on the side of the hotel in which we're staying, and an orange - robed Tibetan monk whom Armstrong later will describe as the «Dalai Lama's assistant.»

Buddhist texts were initially passed on orally by monks, but were later written down and composed as manuscripts in various Indo - Aryan languages which were then...

Healing Scriptures, 1993, 80 pages, Kenneth E. Hagin, 0892765216, 9780892765218, Faith Library Publications, Incorporated, 1993 DOWNLOAD http: / / Buddhist texts were initially passed on orally by monks, but were later written down and composed as manuscripts in various Indo - Aryan languages which were

Much attention is being focused on the paintings of the late Japanese Gutai painter and Tendai monk, Kazuo Shiraga (1924 — 2008), who for years has been collected throughout Europe, even as he has been virtually ignored in the United States.