Sentences with phrase «religion by missionaries»

As I grew, and learned more about christian history, the crusades, the inquisitions, the forced religion by missionaries and governments etc..

Not exact matches

No suprise both these religions were spread by the power of the sword, forcible unfair taxation and supporting missionaries who proselyticised the king / emperors faith.

African traditional religion (ATR) was a top - down attempt by the religious elite to legitimize Christianity with the very paganism the missionaries had demonized.

With these observations about the religion of the Pulayas let us move on to look at the communication of the Gospel by the missionaries.

At the first Axial Period, the ancient nature religions reacted strongly against the rise and spread of the new world religions, just as the Maori tohungas, for example, strongly resisted the message brought by the Christian missionaries.

He makes the conference realize the great harm done by unethical representations of the doctrine of the Atonement, and how pathetically missionaries are handicapped who do not appreciate the inner life of the people whose religion they wish to supplant.

Mr. Nuechterlein sounds uncomfortably like those who attacked Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger for being intolerant of other religions when he affirmed the unique fullness of the Christian revelation in Dominus Iesus As Ratzinger wrote, «The Church's constant missionary proclamation is endangered today by relativistic theories which seek to justify religious pluralism, not only de facto but also de iure (or in principle).»

Missionary work on the frontier was carried out by uneducated preachers who, in the eyes of many, were incapable of preaching true religion or restraining the wild passions of the rough, unruly frontier folk.

The new and awful discoveries made of the polluting and murderous nature of their superstitions, in writings of unquestioning authority, with the success of the missionary labours of the excellent men of other denominations already employed there, the committee think ought to be considered as special calls upon British Christians to increase the means of acquainting their natives of India with their divine religion; and to persevere in the glorious toil, until the name of Christ shall be sounded throughout the vast extent of our oriental dominion, and one God and Saviour shall be worshipped by every subject of the British throne.4

Christian apologetics and missionary theology has been succeeded by detached study of the history of religions and by dialogue among believers in various faiths.

As Christians, it should be also noted to avoid dating non-believers and on the other hand, also do not ever hope or d a «missionary date», or trying to convert someone to believe in the religion by dating him or her.

In 2011, Stone, Parker and Avenue Q creator Robert Lopez debuted the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, which followed two naive Mormon missionaries on a trip to Uganda, where their efforts to share their religion are repeatedly sidelined by a ruthless warlord, famine, disease, and poverty.

At this time, men and women were surfing together, naked in the waves, but with the arrival of Missionaries and religion, it was considered obscene by the missionaries and waMissionaries and religion, it was considered obscene by the missionaries and wamissionaries and was forbidden.

The works inform the sensitive debate surrounding the demonisation and denigration of traditional religion instigated by colonial and missionary rhetoric, and more recently by the most dominant and visible forms of the religious belief systems in Nigeria and across the continent: Islam and Evangelical Christianity.