Sentences with phrase «with early church history»

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In the Churches of the Reformation the immediate result was, undeniably, an outburst of religious spontaneity such as marks periods of expansion and revival, comparable with prophetic movements in the early Church and in the history of

I The early Church father Tertullian asked a famous question, one that has been asked again and again in the history of the Church, and that I would like to ask again: «What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?»

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In the face of capitalistic globalization, disciples of Jesus may find a better inspiration in Jesus himself and in the early Church rather than in subsequent period of Church history, when the Church was compromised with political and socioeconomic power.

At one point early in Church history «Christ» was equated with the divine Logos, and there was some disagreement as to how this was related to the man Jesus.

Hans Lietzmann was teaching the history of the early church, and Adolf von Harnack, Karl Holl, and Reinhold Seeberg were in one way or another connected with theology.

There were many theological ideas within the early church that I do not agree with, especially at this time in the history of the church (as I discuss further below).

They are found with the living evidence of history in the first documents and apologetics of the early Christian Church.

With respect also to earlier Christian thinkers and their various statements, there is Hodgson's further remark — which those of us who were his students vividly recall — that we must always ask something like this: «What must the truth be for us now, if people like that» — he was referring both to biblical writers and theologians in the past history of the Church --» «put it in the way they did?»

If we look at the history of Christianity, the early church was also faced with a vast amount of plural voices as well — the various cults of the barbarians, local deities, and mystery religions.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

All the great spiritual writers have known this, but few in the Church's history understood it better, experienced it more deeply, and wrote about it with more insight than John Cassian, the monk from southern Gaul who lived in the early part of the fifth century.

When Newman was studying the history of the early Church he noticed that «the true faith never could come into contact with the heathen philosophies, without exercising its right to arbitrate between them» (Arians p. 101).

Having studied early church history and the bible intensely, coupled with a background in the sciences I can turn such a conversation vile, but usually choose not to as it simply ruins the outing.

The early church orders together with the documents and letters dealing with the history of their formation and first application are also mines of information.

The account of the ways in which the medieval Christian church attempted to suppress early scientists, which Abdus Salam in his preface regards as particularly impressive, consists of little more than a list of ten examples drawn from A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology published almost a century ago.

As a engineering doctorate (with an early minor in history), I was dumbfounded by the lack of the Medieval Warm Period — the warm period had a huge influence on warfare, and the following cold period broke the back of the hold of the church in Europe....

It has considerable history with the island having a fortified dwelling dating back to the Bronze Age 200 BC and its earliest title deeds was recorded in the 15th century with the church as the legal owners of the island.