Sentences with phrase «once christendom»

In what was once Christendom these are now fortified with ideologies which, as we have said, are in effect rival religions.

I've been lamenting over the West because it was once Christendom before and I remember those days.

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Lewis once referred to himself as «the most reluctant convert in all of Christendom.»

If we become too comfortable, a comfort that once bore the name Christendom, we can forget that we are on a pilgrimage.

In the chapter on the eighteenth century, we read of Voltaire's Écrasez L'Infâme, «Christendom will be unwise if ever she forgets that cry, for she will have lost touch with contrition once more.»

Hans Urs von Balthasar once commented on atheism's perennial value to Christian faith: «The frightening phenomenon of modern atheism may, among other things, be a forcible measure of Providence to bring mankind, and especially Christendom, to a more adequate idea of God.»

Using as examples what he saw as the crusaders» thuggish disruption of the equilibrium between civilized Islamic and Eastern Christian lands of the eastern Mediterranean, and their destruction of Byzantium, which they had originally set out to assist, thereby allowing the Ottoman Turks to subjugate half of Christendom, Runciman sought to show how civilization — any civilization — is imperiled once high culture, reason, learning, and moderation are challenged by violent greed and ignorance.

The greatest challenge facing oldline Protestantism today is whether within our life and thought we will welcome movements that buck the currents of establishmentarianism, Christendom and modernity and that call the church to speak once again the «language of dissent» to a culture and church of compliance and consumption.

The Reformers spoke in biblicist terms when trying to rid Christendom of what they identified as Catholic errors, but biblicism became a less functional standard once Protestants began to disagree among themselves about the meaning of the Bible.

I once welcomed the passing of Christendom and found Richard John Neuhaus's demurrers misplaced; but now, as I earlier mentioned, I am having uncomfortable second thoughts.

Just as a butterfly develops from a larva, growing inside a shell which was once the skin of a grub, so out of the chrysalis of Christendom there is currently emerging a new kind of society — a global, humanistic and secular society.

Scottish theologian Ronald Gregor Smith said in 1966: «The tide of secularism has swept over the whole of the western world, the world that was once called Christendom, and beyond that it has reached into every land... It has flooded over every island and the remotest parts of the world».5 No longer can it be said that Christian beliefs, values and aspirations are shaping our public life.

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

Once upon a time, as one story goes, men and women rose up in defiance against religious superstition and oppression to split the thousand - year tyranny of Catholic Christendom.

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.

It was the Protestant Reformation that undermined once and for all the unity of Western Christendom.