Sentences with phrase «left christendom»

The challenge for those of us who've left Christendom to seek a more free flowing spirituality is to not enter the «religious rivalry spiral» but to lovingly disengage like our teacher Yeshua.

No nation, religion or culture can contemplate its future in isolation: as the west leaves Christendom behind, the whole world is entering a new age.

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Indeed, for Kierkegaard, «Christendom» had become a mistaken baptizing of nearly everything: Where real Christianity called for a transformation of one's whole life, Christendom simply «christened» everything» giving it a new name and leaving it otherwise unchanged.

As is with all Christendom's monetary needs, their inner folds gain and their sheepish ones are left holding their insecurities with little hopes to float above the social waters of communally mundane decencies...

New England's Puritans retained the vision of biblical Christendom that their English coreligionists had left behind.

Everywhere they will be a little flock, because mankind grows quicker than Christendom and because men will not be Christians by custom and tradition, through institutions and history, or because of the homogeneity of a social milieu and public opinion, but — leaving out of account the sacred flame of parental example and the intimate sphere of home, family and small groups — they will be Christians only because of their own act of faith attained in a difficult struggle and perpetually achieved anew.

In this chapter we shall examine the decline and fall of Christendom, leaving to later chapters the definition and destiny of Christianity.

With the demise of Christendom or Christian civilization in the western world, what kind of civilization is left?

Western Christendom «ceased to exist,» leaving Christians in their various camps «warily keeping an eye on one another and on the rising tide of unbelief and materialism.»

With this kind of reasoning, the expression that «God is dead» or that he has no interest in us, leaving all the woes and troubles to ourselves to deal with or solve, takes root and this from a man that is a religious leader of the churches of Christendom.

You know that I am descended from the most Christian emperors of the German nation, from the Catholic kings of Spain, the Archdukes of Austria and the dukes of Burgundy... After death they left us by natural right and heritage these holy Catholic observances, to live according to them and to die according to their example... I am determined to support everything that these predecessors and I myself have kept... It is certain that a single friar errs in his opinion which is against all of Christendom and according to which all of Christianity will be and will always have been in error both in the past thousand years and even more in the present... I am absolutely determined to stake on this cause my kingdoms and seignories, my friends, my body and blood, my life and soul.

Ancient Greek culture provided ancient foundations for the modern West, a Western civilization that could take leave of Christendom.