Sentences with phrase «such as the missionary»

The characters, such as the missionary, the dreamer, the wayward trees and the soldier interact with one another, and reveal how varied and mysterious this artistic experience is.

I work with individuals, couples, and families struggling through issues such as addiction that create distance among those they love; with individuals pursuing spiritual healing from emotional wounds; and with people grappling with cultural identity, transition, and stress, such as missionaries and children of missionaries.

Not exact matches

So I doubt many will take her views seriously, since the fly in the face of what we have learned through the years about such Christians martyrs as Jim Elliot (speared to death by the Aucas and yet his son went back to be a missionary to them, because he LOVED them, something she might want to consider).

Yes, Hindu thinkers such as the first Hindu missionary to America Swami Vivekananda have argued against caste, and the Indian Constitution outlawed caste - based discrimination, but the caste system, both ancient and religious, will not be swatted away so easily by either reformers or legislators.

Ahmad Khan was also involved in a controversy with the Christian missionaries which led him to write a commentary on the Bible, in which he showed that many Muslim religious scholars, such as Bukhari, did not believe that the words of the Old Testament and the New Testament had suffered from interpolation at the hands of the Jews and the Christians.

It just makes me wonder if all that money wouldn't be better spent in supporting missionaries and evangelists such as yourself who are already in Africa... What are your thoughts on this?

They were the primary group in the American Missionary Society, which started such famous Negro schools as Hampton Institute, Fisk University, Tougaloo, and Atlanta University in Georgia.

We are not dealing here with the concept of conversion as such but with conversion as a missionary motive.

Such an oversimplification ignores the biographical, religious and political realities running through the history of Christian missions during the «great century» and long before, as missionaries have, in the name of Jesus, striven to understand and learned to respect the particularities of the cultures to which they have come.

This approach did not escape unscathed; other Jewish missionary enterprises labeled Our Hope's «Messianic Judaism» as outright «Judaizing,» declaring that such theology was «unscriptural, mischievous and dangerous.»

Movements such as de-colonization, the rise of Communism — especially the expulsion of missionaries from China by the Communists — and the attempt to vindicate Human Rights culminating in the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) have direct and indirect impact on mission understanding.

I would see these involvements on the same level as the evangelical and pietistic commitment of missionaries such as William Carey.

As such, it is expected to uphold this policy in its missionary relationships both within and outside CWM.

Volunteer groups should not provide employment to local gringo wannabe elites — or northern missionaries living in the South — who act in the name of the poor but actually erect barriers to true encounters because such encounters would threaten their privileged role as interlocutors.

However, a redeeming feature of the descriptions is that missionaries such as H. Baker, Jr., and A. F. Painter, who were acquainted with the people and local language for several decades, had also an anthropological approach which makes a difference.

While many of these charts were helpful, such as the parallels between Acts and the letters of Paul, and the chart on Paul's missionary journeys, I did not find the charts about all the Men and Women mentioned by Paul to be necessary.

It was the work of Jewish Christian missionaries such as Addai in Edessa, Aggai and Mari in Persia and Thomas in India.

Japanese imperial rule (beginning in 1910) and the burdens of World War II disturbed these efforts, but when China «fell» to the communists in 1949, many groups, such as the Oriental Missionary Society, pivoted towards Korea.

The success of Totus Tuus is such that interest in serving as a missionary is spread by word of mouth among young Catholics involved at their Newman Centres and Catholic campuses.

FOCUS sends recent college graduates back to campuses as missionaries and has had such success in the U.S. that FOCUS missionaries are now working in Europe.

Finally he recited a list of some of the more illustrious foreign missionaries in the Punjab — John Lowrie and William Reed, the first missionaries in 1834; Charles Forman, who founded the distinguished college which bears his name; Hervey Griswold, the missionary scholar who pioneered in Pun - jab sociology; and some of the more recent missionary heroes, such as Ernie Campbell, who received an Indian government citation for helping resettle refugees; James Alter, who established a center for interreligious understanding; and Clinton Loehlin, who founded the Institute for Sikh Studies at Baring College.

It was in the period of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, when England was threatened by the conflagration on the Continent, that such organizations as the London Missionary Society, the Church Missionary Society, and the British and Foreign Bible Society came into being.

James Martin for defending the apostasy of the Jesuit missionaries depicted therein, pointing to modern notions of empathy as the foundation for such apostasy.

The theater has received glowing reviews for its staging of such plays as Merchant on Venice, which turns Shakespeare's play about Christians and Jews into a story about Muslims and Hindus, and Golden Child, by David Hwang, about the cultural clash between Christian missionaries and the Chinese.

The Jansenist movement among Roman Catholics and certain sectarian strands in the Reformation churches have been prepared to say that such non-Christians are without God and without hope in this world; they have regarded those countless men and women as only what somebody once called «missionary fodder.»

When the work of conversion was completed, in theory the missions were «secularized» — that is, the missionaries, most of whom were «regulars» (members of orders), were required to give place to the «secular» clergy, and normal parish administration, such as existed in districts longer under European rule, was introduced.

The group - which created a missionary bishop to cater for disaffected Anglicans in Scotland, England and across Europe who are unhappy with the church's teaching on issues such as sexuality - made comments following Most Rev Justin Welby's criticism of the body at the recent Primates» Meeting on Friday.

World gatherings of the Evangelicals, such as the Berlin Congress on Evangelism in 1966, the Wheaton Congress on World Christian Mission, also in 1966, and the Lausanne International Congress on World Evangelism of 1971, were seen by Winter and others as a response to the absorption of missionary concerns into the World Council of Churches.1

There is really no such thing as a vital missionary.

He also traces the history of Islam among African - Americans by tying together such key developments as the formation of black fraternal lodges in the 18th and 19th centuries; Noble Drew Ali's 1913 organization of the Moorish Science Temple in Newark, New Jersey; the growth of various Islamic missionary and revivalist movements beginning in the 19th and continuing throughout the 20th centuries; and the conversion to Islam of be-bop jazz musicians who helped raise the faith's profile in the African - American community.

Some twenty slaves (he continued) have stood firm through all this fiery opposition, and if the persecution somewhat lessens I am told great numbers will join... «52 Events such as these demonstrate how powerful missionaries could become in local society.

Another pastor added that part of a missionary's orientation should consist of «many hours reading Argentine political history and some of our basic ecclesiastical documents such as «The Missionary Strategy of the Argentine Evangelical Methodist Church.&raqmissionary's orientation should consist of «many hours reading Argentine political history and some of our basic ecclesiastical documents such as «The Missionary Strategy of the Argentine Evangelical Methodist Church.&raqMissionary Strategy of the Argentine Evangelical Methodist Church.»»

Like Wesley, such men as Phineas Bresee, the dominant figure of the Church of the Nazarene, and A. B. Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, left socially elite churches to minister among the poor of the inner city slums.

Responsible religious leadership — such as the recent meetings of the International Missionary Council, to which Radhakrishnan himself refers, 31 represent — is well aware that there are pressing tasks which require the wholehearted cooperation of the faithful of all religions.

The famous missionary injunctions in the Gospels and Acts, such as, «Go therefore and make disciples of all nations...» are all placed on the lips of the risen Jesus, the Christ of faith, and reflect what began to happen only ten to twenty years after the death of Jesus.

A corollary, promoted by some anthropologists, says that the pristine cultures of such remote people groups should remain undisturbed by modernity — and especially by missionaries, who are seen as meddling cultural imperialists.

Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood reacted to the secular and Christian culture introduced by European colonizers and missionaries.

The missionary movement was very slow in recognizing the importance of the secular world in its thinking, but thanks to great theologians such as Bonhoffer and others it became clear that the church's nature and function needed to be rethought in relation to God's concern for the whole world.

This is seen in such popular treatments as Julian Price Love's The Missionary Message of the Bible, and more scholarly works as Ferdinand Hahn's Mission in the New Testament, and Johannes Blauw's The Missionary Nature of the Church.

Such support as they gave was chiefly through subsidies to mission schools, maintaining order, and seeing that British missionaries were protected.

I volunteered at a hospice for women with AIDS run by a group of Missionaries of Charity and it was exactly as you'd expect any such organization in the United States to be.

Denominations with higher educational standards, such as the Presbyterians, the Congregationalists, and the Baptists of the eastern seaboard organized societies which sent missionaries to the western settlements but did not gather as many converts as did the men who were sprung from the frontier and spoke its language.

But in Spain and Portugal such numerically feeble Protestant groups as emerged arose out of missionary effort from other countries.

In order to make certain that such statements as these should have more than ephemeral significance, it was proposed that the International Missionary Council should establish, as a part of its organization, a «bureau of social and economic research and information» on problems arising from the contact between Western civilization and undeveloped countries.

(1) places on record its conviction that the protection of missionaries should only be by such methods as will promote good will in personal and official relations and (2) urges on all missionary societies that they make no claim on their governments for the armed defense of their missionaries and their property.

Frontiersmen were hard on the easterners who could not take the rugged western life, but they had only respect and esteem for men such as Marcus Whitman, Presbyterian doctor and missionary.

Some Americans dreamed of missionary communities on the model of early medieval or Celtic missionary monasteries, but none of these survived as such — Bishop Ives» Order of the Holy Cross at Valle Crucis, North Carolina, broke up, and the mission begun at Nashotah, Wisconsin, in 1842 continued only as a seminary.

Although some churches, such as the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, use a missionary strategy of giving material aid to beggars and street people, most Pentecostal churches take only the Bible to their missionary work.

The former president who arrived in the company of General Secretary of the NDC Johnson Aseidu Nketia, Joyce Bawa Mugtari (his spokesperson), Julius Debrah (former chief of staff) among other top shots of the party was driven through the principal streets of Wa and also led to some prominent persons such as the Wa Naa Fuseini Pelpuo IV, Ahmadiyah Regional Missionary, Chief Imam and Yari Naa where he paid courtesy calls on them.

She has been present at community functions such as the annual Southern Missionary Baptist church Christmas pageant and the Living Waters, MLK celebration.