Sentences with phrase «like martyrs»

They would actually die happy they got arrested behind the pulpit on a Sunday morning and dragged out the door like martyrs.

The term «confessor,» it is worth remembering, originally referred to those in the early church who had been arrested and tortured for their faith, though not (like martyrs) actually killed.

«Accidentally like a Martyr» speaks to anyone who has ever been tempted» and burned» by a misguided romance.

I didn't feel like a martyr for pumping.

I did it for the first three months of her life, combined with nursing when she was a month old, and felt like a martyr or something.

I'm not feeling like a martyr at all.

The doc's attempt to play out like a conspiracy thriller falls flat; Scahill's overly serious narration combined with Rowley's attempt to make him look like a martyr don't work well when seeing innocent people get slaughtered.

Whoopee big deal, cranky old man raises a stir and years later Shectman acts like a martyr and thus a myth is born.

One person may feel like a martyr, or victim, etc..

Not exact matches

While some of the martyrs were fortunate enough to leave a written record (like Perpetua), most were not so lucky.

one only need look at the Church ih China today and it's growth under Communist persecution to get a mirror image of what it was like for first through third century Christian's as well as Revelation 6:9 - 11 then 14 - 17 nine through elven are the martyrs and 14 through 17 is a glimpse of judgment for men of war!

They undoubtedly face widespread ridicule from the media (especially Hollywood) and an increasingly vocal minority who essentially call them stupid - heads (like Jacob) and mischaracterize their beliefs,, but this fact doesn't make them martyrs.

The article did NOT say that there were no martyrs at all, just that there were not as many as you would like... And to even TRY an equate Christianity in America as the kind of persecutions early Christians experienced makes you look quite childish and hysterical.

The twenty - first - century Church owes a lot to twentieth - century German Catholicism: for its generosity to Catholics in the Third World; for the witness of martyrs like Alfred Delp, Bernhard Lichtenberg, and Edith Stein; for its contributions to Biblical studies, systematic and moral theology, liturgical renewal, and Catholic social doctrine, through which German Catholicism played a leading role in Vatican II's efforts to renew Catholic witness for the third millennium.

Seems to be the beginning of the end for Foreign troops in Afghanistan since now it is becoming more like a Holy war were every one there will be glad to give his life as a martyr...!

Just like religion, no use letting the truth get in the way of a good martyr / miracle / saint story.

and spoke what appeared to be a prophecy of Peter's death, Peter immediately raised a question about John (for no one likes to be a martyr alone): «Lord, what about him?»

When Rodrigues and Garrpe arrive in Japan in 1639, they have been formed by years of European romanticizing of the Japanese martyrs, found in books like the 1630 volume The Palme of Christian Fortitude, Or, The Glorious Combats of Christians in Iaponia.

For Mark's interpretation of the life of Jesus as the career of the heavenly Son of Man, walking about Galilee incognito, dying and rising again, is the theology of a martyr church; and like all vital theology it is in closest relation to the daily life of those who thought it and believed it.

Second, if the church is attentive to the New Testament, Justin Martyr and Hippolytus, the Eastern church, the Western catholic tradition, the Anglican tradition, the Lutheran tradition, the Calvinist intent (and practice, if not in Geneva then in places like John Robinson's Leiden), the Wesleyan intent and that of the early Methodists, then its worship on every festival of the resurrection — that is, on every Sunday — will include both Word and Supper, not one or the other.

The backgrounds and situations of all the martyrs were very different: some were priests who travelled around, some like the monks whose abbeys were relied upon for medicine or respite; others were lay people with families, like Thomas More or Margaret Clitherow, and yet they stood firm.

Any way as it seems this will be the beginning of the end for Foreign troops in Afghanistan since now it is becoming more like a Holy War were every one there will be glad to give his life and die as a martyr.

We must often put our feet in the shoes of the martyrs but we must realize that we are not martyrs; we most often come closer to being the torturers and the persecutors, because we often fail to understand and what we do not understand we would like to hate and destroy.

Threatening people with hell to get them to believe is like promising them virgins to martyr themselves.

It felt like I was carrying a piano on my back and I was exhausted and empty, but I was getting proud and arrogant because I felt like a real martyr for Christ.

There's no denying that the early Christian apologists (Justin Martyr and others) made up that whacky «diabolical mimicry» notion — saying the the devil caused what looks like plagiarism in reverse; so it's pretty obvious those old Xtians were trying to explain away something that would normally look ridiculous.

Yet, again like Foote, the elegiac southerner who recognized Lincoln's greatness, Parkman was bigger than his point of view and could thus celebrate the heroism of the seventeenth - century Jesuits martyred in the raw wilderness of the New World.

The blood of the martyrs is now poured out like Christ's to glorify your name and in their struggle the victory is yours.

Like Anna Karenina, Hester is one of the great heroines in world literature, and if Hawthorne was unsympathetic in his estimate of Margaret Fuller (whom he knew) and her brand of feminism, he sympathetically portrayed Anne Hutchinson as a courageous martyr, and he adored and praised his own wife.

So we find repeated warnings like the following which Justin Martyr (c. 100 - c. 165) an early Christian apologist, delivered to Trypho, «For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who... say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians... But I and others, who are right - minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned and enlarged.»

My question would be WHY did apologists like Justin Martyr and others have to come up with that whacky notion of diabolical mimicry?

James V. Schall, S.J. is a philosopher / priest who like Justin the Martyr might find wisdom in Eric Voegelin's comment that ``... Christianity is not an alternative to philosophy, it is philosophy itself in its state of perfection; the history of the....

I get so tired of the religious acting like they are being personally persecuted in matters such as this — get off the cross, it's 2,000 years later and nobody cares if you feel the need to be a martyr.

In this act of interrogation, lessons that one learns from a writer - bishop - martyr like Cyprian are indispensable, not only in demonstrating the hermeneutical principle that one must reach back in order to move forward, [27] but also to indicate that the ongoing task of attributed implicit theological disclosure is an essential, fundamental, and crucial activity of the theologians of the church.

Since it is Christ's actual suffering in the body that establishes the mimetic model for martyrs like himself, to hold that Christ's suffering was only a «thought experience» is unacceptable, indeed unthinkable.»

In this act of interrogation, lessons that one learns from a writer - bishop - martyr like Cyprian are indispensable, not only in demonstrating the hermeneutical principle that one must reach back in order to move forward,

«Calling millions of Christian victims of bloody civil wars «martyrs» is a bit like calling all the victims of 9/11 «heroes,» he wrote for The Washington Post in 2013.

But concerning him are the sources like «the letters of Ignatius addressed to Smyrna», the martyr act of Polycarp and several writings of Eusebius, etc. (op.

It is said that the fire, «forming a sort of arch like a ship's sail billowing in the wind, made a wall around the body of the martyr, which was in the midst, or like gold and silver burning in furnace» (15:2).

Martyrs, like the faithful Martyr Jesus, sit on thrones (Revelation 20:4).

The group patronized outstanding preachers like Bernard Ochino and Peter Martyr Vermigli who later seceded to Protestantism, and was responsible for the distribution of tens of thousands of copies of the notorious tract Beneficio di Cristo, written by a Cassinese protégé of Pole's, and which incorporated without acknowledgment swathes from the first version of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion.

It also explains why in America appeals like Hovey's or York's to the exemplary nature of the martyrs don't make immediate sense; in most people's minds, the only people who die for their faith are delusional and suicidal figures like Jim Jones, founder of the People's Temple, and more than 900 of his followers.

Today's martyrs like Bonhoeffer need to be honored for the sake of their new life.

Apart from the fact that most bishops, like most of us, are not the stuff of which martyrs are made, how might he go about such a challenge?

The fire made the likeness of a room, like the sail of a vessel filled with wind, and surrounded the body of the martyr as with a wall, and he was within it not as burning flesh, but as bread that is being baked, or as gold and silver being refined in a furnace.

Mainline Christians are familiar with such contemporary martyrs as Martin Luther King, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Oscar Romero, though they are much less comfortable with tales of classic martyrs, like Polycarp.

Still, none of the martyr - confessors I have met had a story quite like that of Father Douglas Bazi, of the Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Erbil, whom I met three weeks ago.

«The hocus - pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.»

The latter remained apart, retaining something like the position of many «heretics» of the previous several hundred years; they continued to attract many converts and martyrs.

Thus Justin, the martyr - philosopher of the second century, stated: «All those who have lived by the Logos, i.e., by the eternal, divine World - Reason, are Christians, even if they have been taken as atheists, like Socrates and Heraclitus.»