Sentences with phrase «misty phantasmagoria»

Anyone familiar with the Eastern Christian world knows that the Orthodox view of the Catholic Church is often a curious mélange of fact, fantasy, cultural prejudice, sublime theological misunderstanding, resentment, reasonable disagreement, and unreasonable dread: it sees a misty phantasmagoria of crusades, predestination, «modalism,» a God of wrath, flagellants, Grand Inquisitors, and those blasted Borgias.