Sentences with phrase «of holy wars»

This three - part series takes a deep look into the history of holy wars from the Crusades, to Islamic warriors and to Luthers Reformation.

However, for the countries of Western Europe, as the centuries passed and memories of Holy Wars gave way to the hopes of the enlightenment, the boundaries of Christendom became gradually less important than the boundaries of «Western civilization» which were both culturally and politically narrower than those of Christendom.

Speaking of Holy wars as Christian, can you back that up with a new testament passage ordaining holy war?

all of the Holy Wars (not unlike what ISIS is currently waging in essentially the same part of the world) in Joshua and Judges?

According to Rummel, the number of people who have died as the result of holy wars, Crusades, inquisitions, witch hunts, etc. is ~ 75 - 100 million — in all of recorded history.

One absent of holy wars, holy hate, and holy violence.

Ironically, Ackman's 3 - year - long «for profit species of holy war,» as Parloff dubs the investor's extended Herbalife siege, has forced the company to shake off many of its most unsavory operations, like its dogged lead generation businesses.

We tend to think of holy war as the strong using God to justify their conquest of the weak, but the Old Testament flips this picture on its head: God arises on behalf of the weak when the tyranny of the strong has raged for far too long.

And what about young Muslims in the Middle East ready to risk their lives in some form of holy war?

While the vast majority of Muslims reject the violent extremism manifest on September 11, some Islamist leaders and groups clearly attempt to justify their behavior in the context of a holy war or struggle in defense of Islam.

While the vast majority of Muslims worldwide were horrified and disgusted by such indiscriminate violence, clearly there are some on the fringes of Islam who interpret these acts in the context of a holy war.

Yet the basic design of holy war colors every account.18

But there is no rallying cry here, as there was in the old days of holy war, for the people of God to come out and do battle.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

In thus clearly defining the sacral institution of holy war, von Rad admits to two basic assumptions which seem to me to be imposed on the data rather than derived from the data.

Throughout its history Israel relied upon the military prowess of Yahweh, first in the prosecution of holy war in defense of the tribal amphictyony, then against the enemies of the Lord's anointed (Psalm 2), and finally in expectation of the destruction of all powers oppressing Israel in the last day.

God actually summoned Saul to a new concept of holy war.

There is, then, in the Gospel accounts a transformation of holy war.

Is this a transformation of the holy war motif, with Jesus as the Divine Warrior, doing battle for God's little people, the marginalized whom we also described earlier?

Anyway, this book discussed the question of Holy War in the Bible and how to understand it.

Those chapters were these: «Holy War, Divine Action, and the New Atheism» by Robert Stewart «The Unholy Notion of Holy War» by Murray Rae

This book is a collection of essays on the topic of Holy War in the Bible from various perspectives.

In Mark's day the triumphalist Davidic dream had reared its head again in the form of the holy war of the Jews against the Romans (A.D. 66 - 70).

Its immediate context, with its unwelcome feeling of a holy war ran:

It also sought the establishment of the commercial domination of the Italian republics and the carving out of principalities for the feudal lords of western Europe (as it has been expressively put, it attempted the solution of the problem of the landless younger sons); and the Crusades also provided scope for all who desired to strike a blow for the faith or do penance by enduring the hardships of a holy war.

It was this defeat and the expansion of Turkish power into Syria and Palestine, the control of Jerusalem, and the reports of their harsh treatment of the Christian pilgrims that inflamed feeling in Christendom and favored the extension of the holy war from Spain and Sicily to the Holy Land.

The Crusades also helped to stiffen the principle of holy war as the main justification for the existence of dynasties and states with large military forces.

Jesus did away with the entire concept of Holy War by showing us what God is really like.

Here was the notion of the holy war, under the auspices of the Church in order to suppress war.

Can ancient stories of holy war and conquest be the basis for modern claims to a nation state?

«I think that Gary Ezzo really has a sense that they are engaged in some kind of holy war.

«We want to alert Biafrans, men and women of good conscience across the globe that the Federal Government of Nigeria has decided to kill yet another innocent person in Anambra State in the name of holy war against IPOB.

And sure enough, what begins as a clarion call settles into a somewhat familiar period costume drama spiced up now and again with racy sequences nonetheless sobered by the memory of the delirious hedonism of that opening, wherein we get Dracula's backstory as a hero of a holy war, repulsing Muslim invaders in Romania, turning to blasphemy when the vengeful Turks fool his wife Elisabeta (Winona Ryder) into believing that her beloved has died on the battlefield, and gleefully chewing artificial scenery with toothy relish.

This one focuses on the franchise's fourth entry (and a personal favorite), Genealogy of the Holy War, finally bringing its leading Lord to the front stage.

The fourth entry in the series, the Super Famicom's Genealogy of the Holy War...

My first big piece was a 20th anniversary celebration of Genealogy of the Holy War.

«Widespread criticisms of jihad in Islam and the so - called sword verses in the Quran have unearthed for fair - minded Christians difficult questions about Christianity's own traditions of holy war and «texts of terror.»

A year ago, we were beset by self - publishing evangelists who (a) seemed to think there was some sort of holy war to be won, and (b) were frequently their own worst enemies because of the nasty, foul - mouthed attacks they made on traditional companies and / or personnel.

The Spiders of Allah: Travels of an Unbeliever on the Frontline of Holy War.

Grand Hero Battle: 5/14/18 12:00 a.m. to 5/22/18 at 11:59 p.m.. From the Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War game, a new Grand Hero, Julius: Scion of Darkness, is waiting in Special Maps.

New Heroes: Genealogy: 5/10/18 at 12:00 a.m. to 5/20/18 at 11:59 p.m. New Heroes from the Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War game are here!

During that battle, an NPC gifts him the blade, which he mistakes for the divine blade Mystletainn that Eldigan wielded in Fire Embem: Genealogy of the Holy War, much to the poor NPC's befuddlement.)

** Grand Hero Battle: Julius From the Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War game, a new Grand Hero, Julius: Scion of Darkness, is waiting in Sp...

Fire Emblem: Dark Dragon and Sword of Light, Gaiden, Mystery of the Emblem, Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776, and the BS game are fit for discussion here.

Fire Emblem Fates — 6 characters Fire Emblem Awakening — 3 characters Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia — 2 characters Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 — 2 characters Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade — 1 character Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones — 1 character Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon — 1 character Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem — 1 character Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade — 1 character Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War — 1 character Fire Emblem Heroes — 1 character

This one is simply called «Genealogy», and it features characters from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War.

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War 6.

I highly recommend Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, which we talked about in the dating sim episode of the podcast!

Awakening is possibly my favorite game in the series, but I also enjoyed Genealogy of the Holy War and Path of Radiance.

Not exact matches

As Ryan Selkis of the Digital Currency Group tweeted, blockchain is friendlier to business and innovation («I want to make money / follow rules») while bitcoin suggests obsession and perhaps delusion («I'm fighting a holy war»).