Sentences with phrase «which christendom»

This change in focal - point can not be over-emphasized, for it is the key to much which happened later in the faith of Israel, and which is again happening in the new world to which Christendom has given birth.

And these ancient city states came to the bad end which in our day is threatening to overtake the national states into which Christendom has broken up in modern times.

Judaism was to be discarded (Matt 21:19; Heb 8:13) and the true religion that Jesus established (but which Christendom has not followed) would remain forever.

We were hoping... A similar lament can be discerned in modern society, in which Christendom gives way to a «post-Christian» world.

This is one area in which Christendom's traditional dividing lines are breaking down and ecumenical connections are being strengthened.

What we know as the traditional image of the Incarnation is precisely the means by which Christendom laid the ground for an inevitable willing of the death of God, for this traditional image made possible the sanctification of «time» and «nature,» a sanctification finally leading to the transformation of eternity into time.

Not exact matches

There were many evil things done in the Name of Jesus Christ, but it is not really to be as surprise, becaue Jesus said that the evil one, which is the devil, will plant his seeds in the midst of God's church, meaning here «The Christendom».

A government which systematically and publicly seeks to buttress its political legitimacy from Christian Bibles, oaths, clergy, and prayer, in continuum with more than a millennium of political leaders within Christendom, is not acting «neutrally» among religions, or between religion and non-religion.

According to The New Encyclopædia Britannica, the one called St.Augustine's «mind was the crucible in which the religion of the New Testament was most completely fused with the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy; and it was also the means by which the product of this fusion was transmitted to the Christendoms of medieval Roman Catholicism and Renaissance Protestantism.»

Let's note and never forget that, when Islam decided to secede from Christendom which was «to effeminate» for their taste, they kept Hell, the Devil, some Archangels and even the Virgin Mary.

Yes, you are correct that the religious leaders of Christendom gave their blessing to its members to kill others «in the name of Christ», such as Catholic Dominican inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada (1420 - 98) of Spain, who ruled tyrannically for 15 years (1483 - 98, with the blessings of Pope Sixtus IV [who praise him for «directing his zeal to those matters that contribute to the praise of God»] and Innocent VIII) and saw that over 114,000 (of which 10, 220 were burned at the stake) people were put to death.

Christendom: I think that Christianity as a religion, which purports to call people to follow Jesus, but uses money, power, and political prestige to force «Christianity» on others, is nothing other than the adoption of all the things which Satan promised Jesus in Luke 4, but which Jesus turned down.

But he was against Christendom, which is kind of everything about the Church sans Christ.

It is impossible to question the immense stimulus, spiritual and intellectual, which a large part of Christendom received from the opening up of the Bible at the Reformation.

If theology is to transcend itself it must negate itself, for theology can be reborn only through the death of Christendom, which finally means the death of the Christian God, the God who is the transcendence of Being.

It is the sad truth that wars have raged intermittently in Christendom and that the present conflict, the worst yet, has broken out in Europe, which has been under Christian influence for at least a millennium and a half; but the Christian faith has never accepted this situation or failed to deplore it.

So long as we claim to be part of Christendom we can never wholly ignore the fact that Christ said, «You know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them; but it is not so among you.»

Anyway, Mark was not a victim of people, but was a victim of Christendom, which puts men in charge of what belongs only to Jesus.

This was the phenomenon which we now call «Christendom».

Out of the original Christian hope for the imminent coming of the Kingdom of God evolved the institution of the church (in which there was to be «neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, neither male nor female»); 3 this eventually developed into Christendom.

In the years when fresh invasions were sweeping new waves of pagans in destructive raids into nominally Christian areas and Arabs were bringing about half of what had been Christendom under the sway of the Crescent, Christianity was recouping some of its losses by conversions in that very Mediterranean Basin and on the borders of what had been the Roman Empire among peoples which until then had been largely on entirely outside its influence.

Everywhere mystery was giving place to love, the aloofness of God to the nearness of Jesus, adoration to communion, repining for the Fall to that sense of Christ's victory which pervaded Gothic Christendom no less than the sense of his divinity.

Yet now all seems to have remained more or less as it was before: theologians still struggle painfully with their problems, their is still a bureaucratic administration which seems to prefer the letter to the spirit, there is still no united Christendom, but we are still divided, fearing and mistrusting each other on both sides of the fence.

What eventually emerged from the chrysalis of early Christianity was Christendom, ruled by an ecclesiastical institution which inherited the structures of imperial Rome.

From the beginning, he rebelled against God, or against the God then present in Christendom, ironically disguising his attack by presenting him under the guise of a number of simple though powerful symbols, the most successful of which is surely the «Tyger.»

What is remarkable is that, during a period in which the church persecuted Christian heretics in large numbers and Christian fought one another in terrible wars over theological differences, no scientists lost their lives for overturning the established worldview of Christendom.

It also disguises a more serious problem - the lack of obedience, which has resulted in the fracturing of Christendom and 30K different denominations.

To be sure, there is the «hot, sweet Catholicism» of his aunt, the «stern and unyielding Calvinism» of the Presbyterian cook, the lukewarm Anglicanism of his boarding school («a religion that «Never Went Too Far»)-- all part of the warmed - over stew of a divided Christendom long past its prime, of which only the «warm gravy of Catholicism retains a little flavor.

Much of what the west has long taken for granted is now disappearing: the security provided by Christendom; the Christian way of interpreting reality; the confidence that the Christian path leads to eternal salvation; and the belief that Christian doctrine embodies the essential and unchangeable truths by which to live.

Updike shares the optimistic 19th - century vision of America as a free - riding nation which is not saddled to the worn - out nag of European Christendom.

The idea of living in Christendom in many Western countries led to the conviction that it was a matter of nations in which church and society lived in full symbiosis.

The same basis is also the token that Christendom possesses perennial perspectives that alone illuminate that birth of science which alone explains its progress.

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.

Mission, therefore, primarily aimed at the conversion of the «heathen» into the Christian «race», through which it expanded Christendom by inculcating its values among the so - called «heathen.»

It registered the fact that there is a movement in the whole church for the unity of Christendom which the love of our separate communions will not be able to suppress.

Within Europe, the religious - cultural formation called Christendom, which had been under construction for almost 1,000 years, was beginning to break apart — a process to which the gradual birth of the modern nation state significantly contributed.

We must differentiate between the values and concerns of the Kingdom of God and the modern equivalents of Christendom, such as the world market which propagates its own values based on greed and the logic of world economics.

Christendom has tokenly taken a «smitten» of their «inseedments» to do that which you profess Oh of Faith you who call yourself Faith.

It will not be easy to stop accommodating Christendom and start accommodating both bothersome faith movements — which are the enemy of complacency — and nettlesome, nonconformist leaders who pursue vision quests and new religious practices with passionate intensity.

He is arguing that the so - called Christians of Christendom are actually living in the way of the «heathen,» which is the way of empty mimetic selfhood.

In his Attack upon «Christendom» Soren Kierkegaard suggested that «the illusion of a Christian nation is due... to the power which number exercises over the imagination... It is said, that [an innkeeper] sold his beer by the bottle for a cent less than he paid for it; and when a certain man said to him, «How does that balance the account?

In Christendom he is a Christian (quite in the same sense in which in paganism he would have been a pagan, and in England an Englishman), one of the cultured Christians.

But it must be said, and as outspokenly as possible, that the so - called Christendom (in which after a sort all men are Christians in a way, so that there are just as many, precisely as many Christians as there are men)-- it must be said that not only is it a wretched edition of Christianity, full of misprints disturbing to the sense, and of senseless omissions and additions, but that it has abusively taken Christianity's name in vain.

Noll summarizes the situation with what he calls an oversimplification, but to which he lends plentiful support: «Where Britain retained Christendom by subordinating the Bible, America would unleash the Bible by overthrowing Christendom.»

The Catholic Church organized a whole «Christ Above Culture» model of social life, which in due time became Christendom.

For Christendom in earlier times the Church was the plank of salvation in the shipwreck of the world, the small barque on which alone men are saved, the small band of those who are saved by the miracle of grace from the massa damnata, and the extra ecclesiam nulla salus was understood in a very exclusive and pessimistic sense.

From the Middle Ages onwards, it was precisely in Christendom that the attitude to the natural world was the fertile ground in which the beginnings of modern science and technology would arise.

The day may not be far off when in every branch of Christendom the centrality of the Lord's Supper will again be recognized, as the Catholic tradition and the great Reformers recognized it, and the eucharistic action will again be the usual and normal way in which, Sunday by Sunday, Christians gather to offer their prayer and praise to God through Christ, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keeps one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so portends there to be...

Medieval Catholic Christendom was hardly a feminist wonderland, but the abbeys were one of the few places which offered women a kind of agency over their own spiritual lives.