Sentences with phrase «of christendom»

During the following three centuries, Western Europeans thought of themselves as French, German, Spanish, and English rather than as denizens of Christendom.

The liberal ecumenists spoke of the «reunion» of Christendom, even though most scholars say earliest Christianity was itself divided and complex, an intricate web whose essences and outlines can not be retrieved.

The religious leaders of Christendom can not discern why 9/11 occurred.

For the moment, while they impressed him, it was all discounted against Rome's great status, the Indulgences to be gained by visiting the basilicas, the sheer fact of being at the heart of Christendom, and the usual Christian tourist reaction of the time — he admired the Pantheon, its size and its symbolism, once the place of the classical gods, now a Christian church.

The fundamental misfortune of Christendom is really Christianity, the fact that the doctrine of the God - Man (the Christian understanding of which, be it noted, is secured by the paradox and the possibility of offense) is taken in vain, the qualitative distinction between God and man is pantheistically abolished — first speculatively with an air of superiority, then vulgarly in the streets and alleys.

It is one thing for Christians to apologize for the crimes of Christendom; it is another for Christians to feel compelled to apologize for the crimes of modernity.

Consider the paradox of Christendom.

You know that I am descended from the most Christian emperors of the German nation, from the Catholic kings of Spain, the Archdukes of Austria and the dukes of Burgundy... After death they left us by natural right and heritage these holy Catholic observances, to live according to them and to die according to their example... I am determined to support everything that these predecessors and I myself have kept... It is certain that a single friar errs in his opinion which is against all of Christendom and according to which all of Christianity will be and will always have been in error both in the past thousand years and even more in the present... I am absolutely determined to stake on this cause my kingdoms and seignories, my friends, my body and blood, my life and soul.

I realize the death of Christendom Hart relays does not equate to the end of Christianity in the public square, but it surely must relegate Christianity to an «also ran» among competing creeds in the new order, making the mission of First Things a more Herculean task.

But with the knowledge presently available to theology and with the vast change of philosophical perspective that has occurred since the first centuries of Christendom, tentative new formulations of the original Christian experience that are not always literally contained within the traditional normative statements are now being proposed by theologians from a variety of philosophical perspectives.

And all the while the meaning of a Christendom organized for justice and fraternity, for the piety which enfranchises the individual and liberates society, was unfolding before their eyes.

Indeed, the situation of Christendom is really despair over the forgiveness of sins.

He's referring to the historic divisions of Christendom: The body of Christ was cleaved in the Great Schism in 1054, and then the Western half began to suffer severance into thousands of pieces beginning in the sixteenth century.

If you lament the demise of Christendom, you need the Church to ask the secular arm to stop heretics.

The final obstacle lies in the condition of Christendom itself.

With this kind of reasoning, the expression that «God is dead» or that he has no interest in us, leaving all the woes and troubles to ourselves to deal with or solve, takes root and this from a man that is a religious leader of the churches of Christendom.

Thus within a little more than a century about half of Christendom came under the rule of zealous adherents of the faith taught by the Arab prophet.

I strove to apply my recent experience in a Berlin evangelical academy and my appreciation of the theology of Paul Lehmann, Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer to the decline of Christendom, the challenge of global urbanization, the racial crisis, the adolescent pomposity of Playboy and the debasement of women in the annual Miss America pageant.

Indeed, the most sacred prayer of Christendom, the Lord's Prayer, is but a summary and concentration of the prayers used by the Jews of the time of Jesus.

The church's witness to the reign of God is crucial but also provisional, for the mystery of God is beyond all domestication, as evidenced in Barth's radical rethinking of baptism and the Lord's Supper as witness to something from on high rather than as the established «sacraments» of Christendom.

It has challenged the validity of traditional Christianity at many points, but at the same time it is out of Christendom that the new world has emerged.

Some believe that the defence of Christendom against atheistic Marxism is the most basic requirement.

[20] However Newman always considered «If the whole of Christendom is to form one Kingdom, one head is essential; at least this is the experience of eighteen hundred years.

-LSB-...] Though some may eschew the term, in the decades to come the great challenge for Christians will be to fashion, within the cultural and political conditions of the twenty - first century, a new kind of Christendom.»

To have fallen into any of those open traps of error and exaggeration which fashion after fashion and sect after sect set along the historic path of Christendom - that would indeed have been obvious and tame.

Newman would say, «St. Peter and his successors were and are universal bishops, that they have the whole of Christendom for their one diocese in a way in which other apostles and bishops have not» (Lectures on the Prophetical Office of the Church).

Some believe that the defense of Christendom against atheistic Marxism is the most basic requirement.

Like the saints of Christendom, television's heroes are identifiable and continuing characters who, while participating in our human situation, also successfully overcome its abrasions, anxieties and threats, thus reinforcing the integrity of the system.

The recovery of the church as the community of faith will not come out of the blue, but out of the existing, fragmented and outwardly dying ecclesiastical institutions of Christendom.

We shall not understand the Yes - saying of a New Zarathustra unless we realize that it is a total negation of the human and historical world of Christendom, and a negation following from the modern prophet's proclamation of the death of God.

If theology is truly to die, it must will the death of God, must will the death of Christendom, must freely choose the destiny before it, and therefore must cease to be itself.

Radical theology is peculiarly a product of the mid-twentieth century; it has been initiated by Barth and neo-orthodoxy into a form of theology which can exist in the midst of the collapse of Christendom and the advent of secular atheism.

Kierkegaard's leap of faith is, of course, a leap out of history; and the necessity of the leap derives from the very existence of Christendom.

Churchmen of various traditions are making strenuous efforts to prevent the once magnificent edifice of Christendom from falling into further ruin.

And in the third and final section, «Disestablishing Ourselves as the Alternative to Being Disestablished,» I come to the main thrust of this first lecture: that responsible Christians ought not to be fatalized by the humiliation of Christendom but ought rather to attempt to discern in this process of de-constantinianization new occasions for authenticity and, accordingly, ought to give positive direction to the process instead of allowing it simply to happen to them.

The tenacity of the North American cultural establishment of Christianity is evident today as both Europe and North America encounter the effects of Christendom's decline.

The modern dimension of this wager is that our time is so obviously divorced from the time of Jesus, or, at least, our world and history is clearly estranged from the classical world of Christendom, with the consequence that to choose the traditional form of Christ is either to set oneself against the contemporary world or to decide that the actuality of one's time and situation can have no bearing upon one's faith in Christ.

When Kierkegaard defines faith as «contemporaneity with Christ,» he assumes the necessity of this leap, a «leap» which, dialectically, requires a negation of Christendom.

The very fact that our present is so detached from its past, from Christendom, with its corollary that an acceptance of the present demands a negation of Christendom, of the Christian God, can mean that the horizon of our present will open into a future epiphany of faith that will draw all things into itself.

The emergence of the new world, which in fact owed so much to the Christian heritage, began to appear more and more in the eyes of the authorities of Christendom as an evil spirit from some Pandora's box.

Confusion about the character and calling of the church is present in all the provinces of Christendom today, but in the United States and Canada this contusion is both extraordinarily complex and... poignant.

The free world... all of Christendom... is at war with Islamic horror.

It was used in the early centuries to designate the great councils such as the Council of Nicaea, to which representatives came from what was then the whole of Christendom — the section around the Mediterranean Sea where churches had been established.

I am a firm believer in the theology of Christendom's «moral» revelations and while I do so believe in God, the Father of All Cosmologic Creation (s) and I am bound by my Faith in God's Sons and Daughters who do wherever possible in the wholeness of the Cosmos make manifest all the living Life Formations as are here upon and within this earth!

It has been retained more by the Eastern tradition of Christendom than by the Western tradition.

Be thankful for the secular humanists who have largely tamed the beast of Christendom.

On the one hand there is an official and institutional form of Christianity seeking to be faithful to the beliefs and forms of Christendom's past glory, and on the other there is a secular, non-religious society which tends to assume that emancipation from all religious faith is part of the goal of complete secularization.

This ancient chiliastic political theology has assumed continually new forms in the history of Christendom.

A recurring theme in Alvis's book is that of Poland as the bulwark of Christendom.

But down to the present day, it still dominates all notions about the Christian West, «Christian civilization» and «the age of Christendom.»