Sentences with phrase «within christendom»

I realize I don't look like it, being a paid pastor of a church with a building which is part of a denomination which is recognized as being within Christendom.

The implication of this for political and economic theory is to some extent obvious and has been assimilated in theories that have arisen within Christendom.

The third period of the Council's work, from 1562 - 3, sealed the divisions within Christendom.

Secondly, the most horrifying act of mass murder or genocide ever perpetrated by humans occurred within a leading Christian nation; and this grew out of an anti-Semitism long present within Christendom.

Firstly, the two greatest wars ever waged by humankind were initiated within Christendom and were largely fought by the so - called Christian nations.

But printing also led to enormous dissent within Christendom, setting church leaders at odds with one another.

Indeed, it has been latent within Christendom ever since.

Widespread Christian observance within Christendom not only survived the fragmentation of the church at the Reformation but even seemed to show a new burst of vitality.

While I understand that is the only programmed response within Christendom to crisis, it is faulty.

Initially it was a great boon, bringing a release from the severe restrictions Jews had long lived under within Christendom.

He fails to look at crusading in its wider guises, in Spain, the Baltic, or within Christendom.

Still, the message of Jesus is its chief fountainhead within Christendom.

Of course, Wesley was preoccupied with bringing the gospel to those within Christendom who had not appropriated it.

Is she saying that those within Christendom should question whether there are «other paths to God?»

People's moral and civil rights are nowadays subjected to mundane abuses of Federalism, the father of adoption's secularism and divorcee of theocracy whose many so many autocrats are of the abolitionists within Christendom's creeds of embittered many; now marrying into the servile atheists euphemisms giving rises to the ever damned younger infidels of socially perverse and vulgar demeaning pragmatisms via emotionalized pleasurable natures, leading down the future's committed vile systems of embittered communalisms reaping the awaiting harbingers» coming wraths of despotisms accruals.

Institutional separation of church and state, religious freedom, and toleration are values that grew up in America within Christendom's fundamental religious and political commitments, and not generally in opposition to them.

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.

Not exact matches

Catholics, who had tolerated a degree of ethnocentrism within the Church, learned from Hitler that national idolatry was Christendom's deadliest foe.

``... a new culture is foreshadowed in the turbulence and spiritual confusion of [our] times... our certainty of imminent change is based... upon the worldwide breakdown of established social order and traditional culture;... nowhere more marked or more disastrous than within that civilisation... that goes by the name of Christendom.»

The very fact that Christendom is collapsing about us and within us can be greeted by the Christian as a decisive witness to the contemporary presence of the Word.

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.

The greatest challenge facing oldline Protestantism today is whether within our life and thought we will welcome movements that buck the currents of establishmentarianism, Christendom and modernity and that call the church to speak once again the «language of dissent» to a culture and church of compliance and consumption.

Even worse was to follow: the Great Depression, World War II, the Holocaust, the Russian gulags, the construction of nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction, ethnic cleansing, to say nothing of the breakdown of many marriages and increase in petty crime — and all within the nations of Christendom.

This conjunction of socioeconomic restructuring and the modern scientific revolution «outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom» (OMS vii, SMW 1 - 4).

Although these visions led to two great multiethnic civilizations — Christendom and the Islamic world — neither of these has succeeded in becoming the new global society, partly because each encountered within itself a continual resurgence of pre-Axial ethnic tribalism, and partly because each developed an intolerant exclusiveness which turned it into another closed society, this time of a religious kind.

For in the great days of the Protestant movement the Protestant churches lived within the framework of Christendom.

Colin William points Out that the direction of ecclesiology in the sixties was a movement away from yesterday's question of where the true church is to be found within the established order of Christendom, to today's question of where the living church must occur as witness to Christ's presence in the secular world.

In so far as people had private lives within the former Christendom, they were largely contained by uniform and prescribed patterns; the opportunities to develop one's unique individuality were strictly limited.

In seeing the Protestant Reformation as an assault on Christendom from within, the Catholics were partly right: the Protestant Reformation was destined to sound the death - knell to Christendom.

Threats just as serious to the vitality of Christendom came from within, from a succession of schismatic and heretical movements.

Although some Christians tend to feed rather liberally upon simplified religious adversities around different Christendom valuations: there is a marked difference within many chauvinistic male dominated Islamic sects...

And Free Methodist Gilbert James of Asbury Theological Seminary has been one of the strongest voices for social conscience within conservative Christendom.

I am a firm believer in the theology of Christendom's «moral» revelations and while I do so believe in God, the Father of All Cosmologic Creation (s) and I am bound by my Faith in God's Sons and Daughters who do wherever possible in the wholeness of the Cosmos make manifest all the living Life Formations as are here upon and within this earth!

When I saw at first time this pic I thought more about the history of western christendom, instead of something less broad as within church abuses.

-LSB-...] Though some may eschew the term, in the decades to come the great challenge for Christians will be to fashion, within the cultural and political conditions of the twenty - first century, a new kind of Christendom.»

But beginning in the last decades of the fifteenth century a vast expansion began, partly through attempts of minorities to bring «Christendom» to a nearer approximation to the standards seen in Christ and partly by explorations, conquests, and migrations which within the brief course of four centuries brought all the earth's surface under the control of «Christian» peoples.

At the Electronic Church Consultation held in New York in 1980, one of the speakers — psychologist and television researcher Robert Liebert — suggested that the growth of religious television in America had created a holy war within U.S. Christendom.

Thus within a little more than a century about half of Christendom came under the rule of zealous adherents of the faith taught by the Arab prophet.

Even within the historic religions, archaic forms reassert themselves, as when Christians divide the world into «Christendom» and the pagan realms of devil worshipers, or when Muslims divide the world into «the house of Islam» and «the house of war» — that is, all those domains beyond the reach of Muslim political power.

But with the knowledge presently available to theology and with the vast change of philosophical perspective that has occurred since the first centuries of Christendom, tentative new formulations of the original Christian experience that are not always literally contained within the traditional normative statements are now being proposed by theologians from a variety of philosophical perspectives.

In thus individualizing ordination Augustine witnesses indirectly to the extinction in the West c. 400 of the older catholic feeling for the corporate ministry of the local church.51 Within four centuries the hereditary priesthood of Israel had been replaced by the indelible priesthood of Christendom, valid not by inheritance and birth but through a kind of rebirth in the solemn rededication of ordination in the descent of the Holy Spirit, an action which also represented a tactile succession going back to the apostles.