Sentences with phrase «missionary fervor»

The Western missionary fervor once directed at Christianizing Asia has been channeled, in the second half of the twentieth century, into proselytizing for fewer Asians.

But those who participate in the internal history of the covenant will see the call of Abraham, the Exodus from Egypt, the lives of the prophets, Israel and Judah's release from captivity, the disciples» missionary fervor after the death of Jesus, and the establishment of the Church as all having a promissory significance that a «scientific» historian might not appreciate at all.

It created an atmosphere of missionary fervor and, indeed, assumed all the aspects of a religious revival — much to the consternation of contemporary observers.

Not exact matches

Neuhaus had a missionary zeal, a fervor for argument and conversation in defense of the faith he loved so passionately.