Sentences with phrase «like violent encounters»

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Though he provides a vivid account of Pascal and Jansenism to illustrate the divisions within seventeenth century French Catholicism and emphasizes the violent opposition encountered by Catholic reformers like Charles Borromeo and John of the Cross, Eire's treatment of the divisions within Catholic reform in general is less vividly realized than his treatment of the corresponding tensions with Protestantism, though Catholic reform could be every bit as fiercely contested and divided.

I am grateful that you're not like many I've encountered who are quick to label you unsaved if you don't hold to their interpretation but to boldly proclaim that we should deny the violent God who sends souls to hell seems very dangerous to me as well.