Sentences with phrase «other christian literature»

[The narrative of the «enduring wife» shows up in other Christian literature in more subtle ways.

I found that by putting down the Bible (and other Christian literature), in fact, leaving it alone for ever increasing periods.

Not exact matches

Sylvania, for example, was «erudite and fond of literature» (a kind of patron saint for female seminarians); day and night she read the ancient Christian commentators, three million lines of Origen and two and a half million lines of Gregory, Basil, and others.

It is a fact that I have spent my life, for the most part willingly, under the influence of the Bible, particularly the Gospels, and of the Christian tradition in literature and the other arts.

The rest of the New Testament and most of the other early Christian literature takes this for granted.

Specifically Christian persecution has included the burning of churches, forced «reconversions» to Hinduism, bomb threats, distribution of threatening literature, the burning of Bibles, several high - profile rapes of nuns, the murder of priests and other Christian workers, desecration of the Cross and statues of the Virgin Mary, and destruction of properties at Christian schools, colleges, and cemeteries.

At this stage, however, it is important to note that in addition to the literature of land ethics, animal rights, and Whiteheadian philosophy, there are numerous other resources within philosophy from which Christians interested in creation consciousness can learn.

The evidence of the Rabbinical literature, which is mostly of late date and uniformly hostile to Christianity, adds little of historical worth, but confirms that Jews who became Christians formed a community to some extent separate from other Jews, and by the end of the first century at least were regarded as heretics.

As the new literature about «theological education» began to grow during the past decade it quickly became clear [l] that for some participants the central issue facing «theological education» is the fragmentation of its course of study and the need to reconceive it so as to recover its unity, whereas for others the central issue is «theological education's» inadequacy to the pluralism of social and cultural locations in which the Christian thing is understood and lived.

Now a reading of the New Testament and other literature of the early Christian Church can leave no doubt that the worship of the first Christians was specifically eucharistic worship.

I am so grateful that God changed all of that and brought into my life the people and the literature of other Christian traditions.

At least Jesus is thought to have existed without any evidence whatsoever other than literature that has so much excluded and content that has been lost in translation that it's almost impossible to be a genuine Christian because no matter what you are ignorant to so many other facts... assuming everything is true.

Jesus» teaching was not «social,» in our modern sense of sociological utopianism; but it was something vastly profounder, a religious ethic which involved a social as well as a personal application, but within the framework of the beloved society of the Kingdom of God; and in its relations to the pagan world outside it was determined wholly from within that beloved society — as the rest of the New Testament and most of the other early Christian literature takes for granted.

In Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers, Barbara Christian points out that «a persistent and major theme throughout Afro - America women's literature [is] our attempt to define and express our totality rather than being defined by others.»

In discussions with Greeks, Christian thinkers presented the new faith not only by reference to the Scriptures but also by appeal to classical literature and general conceptions, «common ideas» that they shared with other educated men and women.

The books appear to belong to that curious subset of contemporary literature that seeks to relieve others of the burden of an explicit Christian faith that the authors themselves have found otiose.

Though not as well known as other martyrs, the writings he left behind are among the most moving in Christian literature.

That is, they had a very substantial amount of literature of varied kinds which corresponds closely with the kind of thing that is to be found among the scriptures of other people, notably those of the Hebrews and Christians.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

William F. Arndt and F. Wilbur Gingrich, A Greek - English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, being a translation and adaptation of Walter Bauer's original work (University of Chicago Press, 1957), p. 623.

Thanks in part to Vilhelm Beck (1829 - 1901), an able preacher and organizer, the country was divided into districts, and colporteurs and home missionaries systematically distributed Bibles and other literature and by personal contacts endeavored to win the nominal Christians to an earnest Christian commitment.

«In traditional thought and literature, there has been virtually no interest in foreign countries, societies, cultures or religions... India has not reached out for the west; it has not actively prepared the encounter and «dialogue» with Christian - European, or any other foreign countries» (Halbfass, 1988: 195).2 This self - contented and self - contained trend however underwent change in the early nineteenth century Three factors contributed to the new posture of «modern» Hinduism.

Since the 1890s New Testament scholars have been rediscovering the importance of apocalyptic literature among Jews and Christians in the ancient world, represented in the books referred to as Apocalypses, which offer visions, revelations of the future, and other divine mysteries.

The New Testament points backward to the Old Testament and the old Israel and forward to other early Christian literature and the later Church; still more directly, it points behind or underneath itself to the Christian community in which and for which it was written.

The business of historical criticism is to deal with the diverse materials in the New Testament (and in other early Christian literature) and to show (1) their unity in relation to the mission of the Church and (2) the relation of their diversity to the various cultural currents within which the mission was carried on.

Our mission is to educate and edify the Christian and to evangelize the non-Christian by ethically publishing conservative, evangelical Christian literature and other media for all ages around the world; and to help provide resources for Moody Bible Institute in its training of future Christian leaders.

Parenthood in my 30s led me to take up my spiritual journey, and after several decades of being active in Unitarian Universalism, in my 60s I have also come to think of myself as a progressive Christian as well as a UU — a return to the faith I grew up in, but on a different level, taking scripture seriously but not literally (and for me, serious literature can be scripture too, especially poetry, and scriptures of other faiths...) I am content to say God is a mystery, a word we use to point to all that is good and beautiful and healing, a creative energy at work that we can experience through our loving relationships, through art and music, through the pursuit of science, and in the «church» of nature.

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The legend thus combines features characteristic of traditional folk - literature with others derived ultimately from the Bible and the panegyric oratory of the later Roman Empire, as mediated by the pattern works of Christian hagiography, Athanasius» Life of Antony (before 373) and Sulpicius Severus» Life of Martin.