Sentences with word «martyr»

Add to this the often saccharine depiction of martyrs in Christian art and legend, and one has a situation in which martyrdom is seen as a pious, quaint idea from an earlier age.

They can turn me into some kind of martyr for the cause and paint my face on banners, and it will do more to rally people than anything I could do if I was living.

Small wonder that Blessed John Paul, shot in a crowded St Peter's Square in 1981, recognised himself as the Pope in this vision: the vast numbers of Christian martyrs of the bloodstained 20th century were epitomised here, with Mary's plea for prayer and penance echoing authentically across the ruins of so manycities in two world wars and other conflicts.

Dealing with the Greek past became a much more pressing issue for converts of a later generation, such as Justin Martyr of the second century.

Do you assume these Christians became martyrs for the sake of a delusion?»

Robert Polidori, Crucifixion with the Virgin and Sts Cosmas, John the Evangelist and Peter Martyr by Fra Angelico, Cell 38 (foreground), Adoration of the Magi and Man of Sorrows, by Fra Angelico, Cell 39 (background) Museum of San Marco Convent, Florence, Italy, 2010, Archival Pigment Print mounted to Dibond.

Most are not martyrs in the strictly canonical sense.

One of the reasons would appear to be Roberta Alison, University of Alabama tennis player, who leads the league in making martyrs out of males.

000s of Christians died martyrs» deaths to uphold this belief in the first 3 centuries.

And so too with the particular election of these baby boys, which, according to the Church's tradition, at least, was an election to heaven as the first martyrs for Christ.

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

Many became martyrs because of their new faith.

Connect with Martyred bishops of Africa who were driven out into the Sahara Desert by the Vandals» King Hunneric, an Arian.

One of the perverse promises of Islamic terrorism is that it can transform ordinary people into martyrs for Allah.

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.

All a rejection would have accomplished is giving Lindzen a chance to play martyr on all the denialist blogs.

We can critique problems in the church without making martyrs out of those those who choose to use dysfunctional churches to victimize others.

Together they would process to a particular statio, or martyr church, designated for that day in Lent.

And if they did they'd lose a lot of supporters, and so PR would mean little to them, unless they're political martyrs at the same time?

I think that is the view you have because of the weight you give the early martyrs in validating your beliefs, e.g. «people would not die for what they don't believe».

They were «sung in the marketplace, intoned by martyrs on their way to the scaffold, and even chanted by armies as they marched into battle.»

Why make Mike Brown the poster child for the Black Lives Matter movement, when there are so many martyrs far more deserving, like Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis and Tamir Rice, to name a few?

NeocoreGames (The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, Deathtrap) released Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor Martyr on Steam Early Access yesterday, after six months of Founding Alpha.

Leaving aside the physical death of martyrdom, are we ready to become living martyrs?

Perhaps the most important witness the new martyrs gave in their heroic fidelity — inexplicable apart from their simple love and trust in God — is the witness to the truth that the politics of power is not all there is.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Spoke in the Wheel by Renate Wind Eerdmans, 182 pages, $ 14.95 A short telling of the story of the heroic Lutheran theologian martyred under the Nazis.

Those form a complicated arrangement interlocking undulating folds and contrasting hues, as the saint leans elegantly against the wheel on which, as it turned out, she wasn't martyred after all (it broke miraculously, so her executioners beheaded her instead).

Though not as well known as other martyrs, the writings he left behind are among the most moving in Christian literature.

In Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, Thomas More, lord chancellor of England under Henry VIII, attempts to reassure his wife and daughter (who are rightly concerned for his safety) by pointing to himself with the words, «This is not the stuff of which martyrs are made.»

In the middle of the second century, Justin Martyr said that he would accept those who continued to observe the Torah into Christian fellowship, provided they did not seek to persuade gentile Christians that they too had to follow the Mosaic Law.

Directed by Mel Gibson (Apocalypto, The Passion of the Christ), who would also take home Oscar gold for his efforts, it would show Mel's penchant for stories about martyrs attacked from all sides without mercy, with plenty of torture, disembowelings and severed limbs on display.

Yet, as the twentieth - century martyr reminds us, we can not speak the last word until we have spoken the next - to - last word.

Early Church leaders embellished and invented martyr stories?

Yet, as Dale Ahlquist told me, «we need to expand our ideas about sanctity, and recognize the saints among us in the ordinary world» — not just mystics and martyrs from centuries past.

Lenin and his disciples created more martyrs in the twentieth century than Caligula, Nero, and Diocletian could have imagined.

Persecution against Christians today is actually worse than in the first centuries of the Church, and there are more Christian martyrs today than in that era.

I suppose they're only martyrs if they die for their faith.