Sentences with phrase «spite christianity»

again... only ignoramuses still quote the old testament to spite Christianity.

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But that freedom was not a product of christianity, it was in spite of it.
Paul Tillich (1954) comments on this doctrine as follows: «In spite of its theological weakness this remained the predominant doctrine of Western Christianity because of its psychological power» (p. 14).
So the virtues of humility and resignation are rejected as despicable, and every effort is made to show that they have nothing to do with Christianity — in spite of all the biblical passages to the contrary.
In spite of all the current talk about «social Christianity,» etc. an unbiased and unprejudiced reading of the Bible shows that converting men to their Lord is the work Christians are called to do.
We often overlook that Jesus said he will build the church, which has happened in spite of all the stuff people have done and said supposedly in the name of Christianity.
In spite of the aspects of his thought that process philosophers and theologians can rightly appreciate, I shall contend (1) that a fundamental weakness of Hauerwas» thought is a view of the self that is unclear and lends itself to a «substantialist» interpretation; (2) that such a substantialist interpretation is further reinforced by an «essentialist» understanding of Christianity; and (3) that such an understanding culmninates in a separatist notion of the church - world relation.
NT Christianity has always been present in spite of the religion of Christianity and its efforts to suppress it.
It has likewise been demonstrated that, in spite of the innate universality of the appeal of Jesus, extraneous factors may prove so adverse that Christianity will be prevented from gaining a foothold or, where once it has been strong, will be entirely eliminated.
In spite of the teaching of secular humanism, Modernism, and liberal theology, Biblical Christianity (The Old Time Religion and the Faith of our Fathers) is based on racial principles.»
In spite of this unprecedentedly large part of absolutist governments in propagating Christianity, probably less force was used to compel the reception of baptism than in the preceding periods.
However, in spite of the prodigious numerical losses, the largest proportionately which Christianity was to know, by A.D. 950 Christian communities were scattered over a broader area than they had been in A.D. 500.
The religion had nothing to do with it, in fact, the high priests of Christianity werre kicking and screaming during the reform, so it was all in spite of them.
For example, even in the 16th century Protestants and Catholics, in spite of their differences, were both closer to the world view of primitive Christianity than they were to that of the modern world.
Can not Israel, in spite of its own observance of the Jewish No, view Christianity as the praeparatio messianica of the nations, and thus recognize in it the way which its own hope for the messiah is taken to the nations?
There are many discrepancies between words and acts in Christianity (look at some of the fundamentalist Republicans for example) just as there are in other religions because in spite of having the Creator within us, we are all still human.
The fact that, in spite of its early association with that world and of the antagonism felt because of this seeming alliance, Christianity won some adherents from other cultures is evidence of the striking universality and vigor of the impulse which created it.
While of the other two great surviving missionary religion, one, Buddhism, has long been practically stationary, and the other, Islam, has made few if any major gains in the past hundred years, Christianity, in spite of the many obstacles which beset its path, is still spreading.
But on the other hand, Indians are pretty forgiving people and many Native folks really like Jesus in spite of Christianity.
It is a complement to Christianity that for many Christians it will not be the case that you or a member of your family will be treated with respect in spite of your ridiculing of those with different belief to you..
Gradually, in spite of corruption in the official Church, something of Christianity filtered through to the Russian masses.
One of the problems is that, in spite of efforts by such ecumenical leaders as M. M. Thomas (the Reinhold Niebuhr of Asian Christianity), who has been closely associated with the activist groups, most have not been able to, or have not been interested in, clarifying the theological bases of their action.
And this in spite of the actual fact that the popular Christianity does absolutely nothing, or did nothing until mind - cure came to the rescue.
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