Sentences with phrase «martyr church»

He was writing, not for a group within a group, the Palestinian church living on under the shadow of the Jewish synagogue and a part, though a somewhat segregated part, of Jewish society, observing its own peculiar Halakak; Mark was writing for a martyr church in the world's metropolis, under the darkening shadow of a tyrant's throne and in the midst of a corrupt society of which the church could not possibly form a part.

The martyr church compels us to pay more attention to the metaphorical language of the Scriptures.

In its sufferings, the martyr church acknowledges the truths of God in unique sensitivity to what builds up human dignity.

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.

St George the Martyr Church has secured Heritage Lottery funding and other grants to begin renovations.

St George the Martyr church near London Bridge, also known as the» Little Dorrit» church, has been in need of repair for several years.

Not exact matches

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!

So... maybe the facts about early church martyrs are sketchy, and maybe they are not, but there's no disputing that Christians today are persecuted around the world for their beliefs.

Many church leaders further suggest that the blood of the martyrs is also the seed of a new Russia.

It may have to do with Oregon's Death with Dignity, which has been more successful and much more ethical than the church's activities, but in general, it's just part of their martyr complex.

The blood of Christian martyrs such as Perpetua became «the seed of the church,» said third - century church leader Tertullian.

On the day of a martyr or confessor's death, the Church includes his or her name in the prayers of the liturgy.

Except the early church father Justin Martyr admitted these pre-Jesus resurrection stories were known, but just sent ahead of Jesus, by Satan just to confuse Christians.

Thus we read, for example, of martyrs under the Communists, of martyrs in the African church of the twentieth century, and of the Anglican missionary Vivian Redlich, who died at the hands of the Japanese in Papua in 1942.

Early Church leaders embellished and invented martyr stories?

Moss says ancient stories of church persecution have created a contemporary cult of bogus Christian martyrs.

When the Church in the early 1990s began canonizing the new martyrs of the Soviet period, Elizabeth was among the first.

«Blood of the martyrs is a seed of the Church.»

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.

Requiescat in pace, Father Jacques HamelMartyred at the church of St. Étienne, Named for the first martyr.

Church tradition tells us that that the disciples of Christ had families, but they still were willing to be martyred and die for Christ, leaving their families behind.

But the church that grew from the blood of those martyrs knew what it was talking about.

Alexandru Stan of the Romanian Orthodox Church summarized some of the thinking of the Eastern Church, from the time of Justin Martyr, on the presence of God in all peoples, Christian and non-Christian alike; Metropolitan George Khodr of Beirut extended Orthodox thinking on the wide and restless work of the Holy Spirit; and Bishop Anastasios Yannoulatos of the Greek Orthodox Church offered a perspective shaped by his work as moderator of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism.

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

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.

Such an interpretation was strongly argued by early - church writers, including Justin Martyr, Irenaeus and Tertullian,

We could have quoted St Irenaeus — who is indeed a saint, martyr and great teacher of the Church — at much greater length to exactly the same effect, but the succinctness of Tertullain's style serves well to express the thought no matter that the man unfortunately left the communion of the Church at the end of his life.

As mystics and missionaries, heroic martyrs and courageous founders of religious orders, in public life as sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughters.

the blood of the martyrs fills the soil of our country from north to south and from east to west... many of the bodies are recovered and are broken between churches all over egypt and the rest of the world and by the way the movie was not made by Coptic Christians at least not orthodox anyway.

apparently you don't take the Word (logos) very seriously, however your definitely on the right course in Daniel and creation mathematics might give you a better clue here the 70 weeks are matched to the ministry, death and martyr of steven to start the church age 7 year long week.

Christ's life and sacrifice with which the Church started, its long history marred by failures but still contributing immeasurably to mankind's welfare, its prophets, saints, and martyrs — for all of this I am unpayably in debt.

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.

Many of the churches in Rome are built over or near the tombs of the martyrs, those who willingly faced (an often tortuous) death rather than renounce their faith in Jesus Christ.

The Catholic Church began compiling «martyrologies» — lists of saints, typically martyrs — during the first centuries after Constantine.

Who would deny, for example, that the prayer of a martyr in his lonely prison cell before his execution, in which he unites himself completely with the death of Christ has greater dignity and validity before God and for his Church than many liturgical prayers?

All the names of the martyrs indicate Greek of Asiatic origins and the fact that they addressed themselves to the churches of the provinces of Asia and Phrygia in their hour of need strengthens the Assumption that most of the martyrs were from Asia.

Perhaps that is why the church treasures its martyrs: it knows that they are irreplaceable teachers.

When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.

I do not know how we North American, well - to - do Christians will be able to give adequate expression to the martyr witness that is becoming the dominant voice in the church as a whole.

The first martyrs of the Christian church in Uganda were young pages at the court of the king.

When the early church came to grips with the problem presented by the extraordinary career and the tragic fate of its Founder, it turned for elucidation to these passages of Isaiah, which speak of a life of service and a martyr's death.

And they got it — for the martyrs, honored with an icon (above) and a day in the Coptic church calendar.

Recent studies show that Islamist extremism is the church's greatest threat, with the number of Christian martyrs almost doubling from 4,344 in 2014 to more than 7,000 in 2015.

A church which has been over-existentialized for a quarter of a century now, which dotes on «sharing» and «personal growth,» often to the exclusion of any meaningful sense of the corporate, will need to be reminded that such a dimension exists, and that if we do not tell the story of the Confessing Church and the Uganda martyrs, of Selma and Vietnam, we are telling a truncated vechurch which has been over-existentialized for a quarter of a century now, which dotes on «sharing» and «personal growth,» often to the exclusion of any meaningful sense of the corporate, will need to be reminded that such a dimension exists, and that if we do not tell the story of the Confessing Church and the Uganda martyrs, of Selma and Vietnam, we are telling a truncated veChurch and the Uganda martyrs, of Selma and Vietnam, we are telling a truncated version.

They were educated at convent schools, could rise to become prioresses or abbesses of great houses and were numbered amongst the scholars, Saints, mystics and martyrs of the church.

We believe that these martyrs of our times, who belong to various Churches but who are united by their shared suffering, are a pledge of the unity of Christians.

Moreover, from St Alban to St Thomas More, the Church's martyrs have suffered because their beliefs were seen to threaten the political status quo.

Kate Kelly wins here; she gets to be a martyr and the church she pretends to love gets a black eye.

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.

The worst injustice has been the church's inability to recognize the sacrifice of the martyrs under Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and even Brezhnev.