Sentences with phrase «often against believers»

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While the priesthood of all believers was used by the reformers to buttress an evangelical understanding of the church over against the clericalism and sacerdotalism of medieval Catholicism, the ecclesial context of this Reformation principle has often been eclipsed within major sectors of the Protestant tradition.

An Orthodox Christian, Dreher emphasizes that believers often must stand against the assumptions of the prevailing culture.

Paul often spoke against those who tried to teach that all new believers must accept and comply with jewish law and tradition.

Many governments in Europe and elsewhere have eliminated the death penalty in the twentieth century, often against the protests of religious believers.

They sense the anti-Christian value system it carries and counsel believers to return to religious fundamentals which often include proscriptions against dancing, movies, plays, and rock concerts, and attempts at censorship of media, especially films, TV, and books.

Those influenced by Rousseau often begin with a bias against civil religion on the grounds that it is or easily can be an idolatrous fraud perpetrated on naive believers.