Sentences with phrase «which martyrs»

combining in himself the sensitiveness of a poet, the clear vision of a statesman, and the stuff of which martyrs are made, had foreseen, long before it happened, Zion's downfall and the people's exile.

Apart from the fact that most bishops, like most of us, are not the stuff of which martyrs are made, how might he go about such a challenge?

The series of the seven seals, as we have seen, reveals human history as a history of war and disaster, in which the martyrs cry out: «How long?»

In Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, Thomas More, lord chancellor of England under Henry VIII, attempts to reassure his wife and daughter (who are rightly concerned for his safety) by pointing to himself with the words, «This is not the stuff of which martyrs are made.»

If, say, a bishop wanted to denounce a rivals» theology, he spun a story in which a martyr denounced the same doctrine with his last breath, Moss says.

Amongst them is St. Sebastian of the Poppies, in which the martyr is tethered to a Corinthian column as simian - faced cherubs attack.

Not exact matches

Accounts of 22 famous contemporary historians with references to the person of Jesus Christ; Cornelius Tacitus (Roman A.D. 60) Thallus (Roman A.D. 52) Mara Bar Seraphian (Hebrew A.D. 73) Lucian of Samosata (Greek A.D. 125) Flavius Josephus (Hebrew A.D. 37) Suetonius (Roman A.D. 120) Plinius Secundus (Roman A.D. 112) Tertullian (Roman A.D. 175) Pontius Pilate (Roman A.D. 33) Justin Martyr (Roman A.D. 150); Jesus is also mentioned in the Jewish Talmud (work finished cir 500 AD) which incorporates the Mishna completed in cir 200 AD.

It may have to do with Oregon's Death with Dignity, which has been more successful and much more ethical than the church's activities, but in general, it's just part of their martyr complex.

Therefore, really the US is celebrating a physical acheivement that too, much belatedly.I am sure should the pace of terrorism world over increase which even Obama feels is quite likely, the Muslim world will unsurprisingly celebrate Osama as a martyr and his vision will continue to prevail among the uneducated muslim youth.

The twenty - first - century Church owes a lot to twentieth - century German Catholicism: for its generosity to Catholics in the Third World; for the witness of martyrs like Alfred Delp, Bernhard Lichtenberg, and Edith Stein; for its contributions to Biblical studies, systematic and moral theology, liturgical renewal, and Catholic social doctrine, through which German Catholicism played a leading role in Vatican II's efforts to renew Catholic witness for the third millennium.

'» The historical Ferreira, upon whom Endō's Ferreira is based, wrote similar accounts of the Japanese martyrs, one of which is quoted at the beginning of the novel.

Justin Martyr lifted up the Logos of God as the means, or bridge, by which an absolute and unchanging deity can have relations with the created order.

Pope Francis has now unblocked his beatification process, which had been held up for «prudential reasons» by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, and a Vatican decree has declared that he was martyred in odium fidei, «out of hatred of the faith».

«He is considered the proto - martyr of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith,» only recently founded at that time, of which he was the head.

Christ's life and sacrifice with which the Church started, its long history marred by failures but still contributing immeasurably to mankind's welfare, its prophets, saints, and martyrs — for all of this I am unpayably in debt.

And so too with the particular election of these baby boys, which, according to the Church's tradition, at least, was an election to heaven as the first martyrs for Christ.

Who would deny, for example, that the prayer of a martyr in his lonely prison cell before his execution, in which he unites himself completely with the death of Christ has greater dignity and validity before God and for his Church than many liturgical prayers?

John was also the only disciple the didn't die as a martyr even though he was boiled in oil (which he survived unharmed).

Will we find a home in our midst for leaders of faith movements — the Peter Cartwrights and Frances Willards of the 21st century — who inspire us by living out the two greatest moral lessons of life: «to hear» (which can produce «martyrs») and «to dare» (which can produce «heroes»)?

When the early church came to grips with the problem presented by the extraordinary career and the tragic fate of its Founder, it turned for elucidation to these passages of Isaiah, which speak of a life of service and a martyr's death.

After a time, however, some Jews began to speak about resurrection of the body, which to them meant the entire human personality; they did this because it was inconceivable that Jews who suffered death as martyrs in the time of the Maccabees should be «cast as rubbish to the void,» their faithfulness to Judaism unrewarded and their bravery denied enduring value.

The «approved» art style was propagandistic woodcuts which tended to focus on idealised portraits of reformers, scurrilous satiric depictions of Catholics or a lot of heroic martyrs being killed in a variety of gruesome ways.

Indeed, Pope Francis's action is particularly welcome this year, the centennial of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, in which 600,000 to 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, including many Christian martyrs, lost their lives.

CT previously reported how the ISIS beheadings of 21 Coptic Christians made them martyrs, which unified Egypt and led to the majority - Muslim nation's biggest Scripture outreach in 130 years.

A church which has been over-existentialized for a quarter of a century now, which dotes on «sharing» and «personal growth,» often to the exclusion of any meaningful sense of the corporate, will need to be reminded that such a dimension exists, and that if we do not tell the story of the Confessing Church and the Uganda martyrs, of Selma and Vietnam, we are telling a truncated version.

The phrase «saint and martyr» should be understood as an interpretation of Prometheus» answer to Hermes which Marx quotes:

So we find repeated warnings like the following which Justin Martyr (c. 100 - c. 165) an early Christian apologist, delivered to Trypho, «For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who... say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians... But I and others, who are right - minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned and enlarged.»

Above that tableau, the soaring words of the martyred president ring out: «to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace.»

The argument of the martyr is always suspect; a cause which has martyrs is not necessarily a just cause.

The martyr proves nothing, we say, but a truth which is not strong enough to lead a man to sacrifice lacks proof.

Further, resurrection was regarded as a future divine act which had special reference to those who had died a martyr's death.

We have seen that one of the chief factors which fostered the development of the resurrection belief in the pre-Christian period was the concern to see the Jewish martyrs vindicated.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

He was writing, not for a group within a group, the Palestinian church living on under the shadow of the Jewish synagogue and a part, though a somewhat segregated part, of Jewish society, observing its own peculiar Halakak; Mark was writing for a martyr church in the world's metropolis, under the darkening shadow of a tyrant's throne and in the midst of a corrupt society of which the church could not possibly form a part.

St Paul Miki, one twenty six Japanese martyrs who were executed in 1597, was from an aristocratic Japanese family but embraced the Jesuit vocation which eventually led him to crucifixion.

The president of Hamas in Gaza hailed Osama Bin Laden is a hero and martyr which is not surprising.

But the followers who believed in Jesus Christ refused to accept this and many were ready to face the trial out of which we have an account of one St. Appollonius who was martyred for refusing to accept the decree proclaimed by the emperor.

For example, the CSGC considers about 20 pecent of the DRC civil war deaths to be martyrs, which heavily influences its tally (averaged over a decade).

The political and legal fate of Jesus can not be reduced to the matter of a martyr who suffered unjust punishment for a crime which in the eyes of God he did not commit.

The work of the Eternal Word of God, present in men spermatically, as Justin Martyr for example put it, offered this possibility of salvation, so that the historical accident of having lived after Jesus or having heard about Him was not the necessary condition of the salvation which God purposed for His human children.

However, his number is still far too high for Open Doors, a leading advocate for the persecuted church, which uses a much narrower definition of martyr.

It begins with a massacre of innocent children; it is centered in the crucifixion; it ends with a vision in which the souls of the martyred saints under the altar cry, «How long, O Master?»

It is said that the fire, «forming a sort of arch like a ship's sail billowing in the wind, made a wall around the body of the martyr, which was in the midst, or like gold and silver burning in furnace» (15:2).

Whoever not only says, but feels, «God's will be done,» is mailed against every weakness; and the whole historic array of martyrs, missionaries, and religious reformers is there to prove the tranquil - mindedness, under naturally agitating or distressing circumstances, which self - surrender brings.

The group patronized outstanding preachers like Bernard Ochino and Peter Martyr Vermigli who later seceded to Protestantism, and was responsible for the distribution of tens of thousands of copies of the notorious tract Beneficio di Cristo, written by a Cassinese protégé of Pole's, and which incorporated without acknowledgment swathes from the first version of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion.

This was the element in the kerygma which Jewish controversialists continued to repudiate down to the Dialogue of Justin Martyr, and which the Gnostics are already repudiating in the New Testament with their anathema lesous (1 Cor.

The martyrs in their resistance proclaim a hope for the poor, it is the proclamation of the dawning of the kingdom of God which is a gift to the exploited, marginalised and the oppressed.

It also invites reflection on the time in which we live, in particular on the fate of those who are daily being martyred around the world.

A bishop (long dead) who fancied himself as something of a historian used to say that it was the religious orders which were the first to capitulate at the time of the Henrician Reformation in England, the Carthusian martyrs being the outstanding exception which proved the rule.

Christian martyrs did not hurt others in their martyrdom, they had nothing to gain... which was the surprising thing to the government leaders.