Sentences with phrase «of illiterate peasants»

Not exact matches

One thing is certain and proven... no matter what creed we utter, create, or claim to believe... more people over the centuries (including the 200 years of NT historians and theologians studies you lean upon) will remember... seek, find, and trust in a risen Jesus (the illiterate peasant carpenter) than will ever know you and I... let alone sing our praises.

I like the way Alan Hirsch describe the «message» of the Bible as being «simplex» simple because it can be understood by a child and an illiterate peasant complex, because we'll spend our entire life always discovering new aspects of it, and struggling to know more and more God and Jesus, and «the mystery» which Paul was running after (Phil 3)

Workers, peasants, probably most of them illiterate kept the industry of the country together despite attacks including international boycotts and terrorist acts from the fascists.

He exposes Chinese society in layers from the bottom upward: from remote, illiterate peasants; to the rising classes of businessmen; to local despots; to the twenty grades of Party apparatchiks; to the dominant, comparatively small caste of party leaders who are often ignorant of the people they rule.