Sentences with phrase «martyr stories»

Whatever the historical truth behind «martyr stories,» I do appreciate that the authors involved accuse contemporary Christians of possessing a martyr complex.

Early Church leaders embellished and invented martyr stories?

Not exact matches

Therefore her satatements are just as speculative as the stories of the so - called martyrs.

She's undoubtedly comparing Perpetua's relatively straightforward story with the incredibly outlandish tales that many of her fellow martyrs command.

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

Fortunately the Christian fundamentalists just sit on their butts and make up fake stories of their «martyrdom» (oh, no, can't force the local atheists to pray... we're martyrs!)

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.

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

If, say, a bishop wanted to denounce a rivals» theology, he spun a story in which a martyr denounced the same doctrine with his last breath, Moss says.

Then years later, attempting to defend the Gospel stories in their entirety, what do several of the early Christian apologists of the day resort to (Justin Martyr and others): the devil performed plagiarism in reverse time order to confuse the faithful...

Hmm — when I think charlatanism, I must confess, what comes to mind is this ridiculous excuse by early Christian apologists (Justin Martyr and others) that the devil was able to perform plagiarism in reverse time order (to fool people into thinking that other similar stories before the Gospels came first).

Early Christians were not martyred for metaphors and fictional stories.

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

Tracing the historical story of underground Christians in Japan in the mid-17th century, Endo offers a stark look at the realities of following Christ under persecution, and the intense psychological struggle of a particular priest to know whether it would be better for him to be martyred for his faith or to recant.

The resulting book, Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao's China, draws from those prison writings, years of interviews and correspondence with those who knew Lin Zhao intimately, and extensive field research in Suzhou and Beijing.

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.

If that community produces people whose stories it remembers, it calls them martyrs, not heroes.

Yes, for all you Muslim lovers out there, for all you Islamists that would die for your religion, for all you weak lillly livered Muslims that flee your own country to live in ours and swear to its destruction, for all you hipocrites that claim to be in a religion of tolerance and peace but live by your actions of murder and unspeakable horrors, you Iranians, you Afghans, you Pakistanis, you Iragis, you misfits and abhorents of any god, this story of a simple Christian, who is now denied his life because of stupid and educaied cowards in Iran, cowards and murderers who covet children and lust hiding behind a demonic religion, let this man be your true martyr because you are not human and can not touch him.

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 version.

The story now gathers pace with the toing and froing of the order between a number of premises in Rome and the arrival Madeline Hambrough, who takes the name of the English Bridgettine martyr Richard (Riccarda) Reynolds (canonised later in 1970).

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.

In many ways it constituted the prototype for the books of Christian martyrs, and Origen regarded the story of the seven brothers as a wonderful pattern for Christians to follow.

This story revolves round Onias, a high priest in Jerusalem in the second century BC., reputed to be a holy and righteous man, who was believed by some to have been martyred for his faith.26

Though we are tempted to hide behind barricades, guns and bombs, the stories of the martyrs remind us of the one who overcame evil not by defeating the enemy but by loving the enemy and thus defeating death itself.

Stories of recent martyrs could easily be multiplied: monks were murdered in Algeria in 1998; an American nun was shot defending peasants» claim to land in Brazil in 2005; Baptist missionaries from the U.S. were shot in northern Iraq last year, and so on.

That weighty tome tells the stories of martyrs, beginning with Jesus and the apostles, with special attention to the persecution and execution of Anabaptists in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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.

More than any other religious group, they're hearing the horror stories,» said Cashin, the CIU professor, who has seen three of his friends and colleagues martyred as they attempted to bring the gospel to Muslim - majority nations.

Justin Martyr and others claimed that Satan was able to perform plagiarism in reverse time order to fool people and that's why some other stories similar to the Gospels occurred before the Gospels.

As the persecution of Christians continues in Sudan and East Timor and elsewhere — as people of faith continue to testify to the gospel of love and the truth about the human person — the continuing story of the martyrs will have to be told in the twenty - first century as well.

It is no exaggeration to say that we will not know the full history of the twentieth century until we know the stories of its martyrs.

I am part of the story of martyrs, and of accounts of Gethsemane and Golgotha.

In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture warriors.

Now, right now, www.expelledexposed.com has a number of reviews and articles and some resources on it, but we will go live, so to speak, on April 15th — the Tuesday before the premiere — with the full Web site that will have the complete stories of the alleged martyrs and references and resources and links for the real stories behind these people and how things are grossly overstated.

Filmed entirely in South Africa, with a cast made up of the country's citizens, this powerful, sometimes shocking account of the life of the apartheid martyr, Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, frequently benefits from a strong central performance by Thabo Rametsi that helps to hold the story together.

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.

The intertwined story of the two»90s rappers — who became iconic, mural - sized martyrs after being gunned down, just six months apart, in 1996/1997 — has all the makings of a compelling drama, from their nigh - mythological upbringings, to a friendship that festered into hip - hop's internecine East Coast / West Coast war, to the way their deaths still symbolize the kind of institutional failings that could allow the murders of two young black men to go unresolved, even when they're two of the most famous artists in the world.

The world of Warhammer 4000 is very big with a huge story going on but Warhammer 40000: Inquisitor — Martyr is the first action RPG in the world of Warhammer 40000.

This note should describe story of one of the martyrs (male or female), and explain why he or she, ended up in hell.

The Life and Legacy of Ana Mendieta «To turn a dead woman into a martyr is to turn her story into your own» says Rosanna Mclaughlin on what it means to coopt the life of an artist for a social cause, the fetishisation of female victimhood and the artworld's complicity in presenting the «ideal woman artist as dead or close to dying».

She collects contrary narratives of those who claim to know the story about the origin of her last name «Martyr of Marnan», which refers to an incident that happened in the late 19th century in Isfahan around the constitutional revolution of Iran.

It was a grim Halloween story: In 2009, the cemetery, the last resting place of jazz great Dinah Washington and civil rights martyr Emmett Till, was found to be reselling burial plots and either interring caskets above those already buried or removing remains to put new bodies in the plots.