Christianity

Moses, Jesus and Muhammad are the descendents of Abraham, making the followers of Judaism, Christianity and Islam "cousins, " he said.

All of the earliest followers of Jesus seemed to have been apocalyptic minded Jews, and that's the beginning of early Christianity.

One was that Christianity was basically a matter of the heart.

What was the original experience of Christianity, in contrast with that of the Greek cosmos and its human microcosmos?

The popularization and development of Christianity in the coastal countryside since the reform and opening clearly proves this point.

It is said that saint Paul converted to Christianity after seeing the fantastic transformed image of Jesus on his way to Damascus.

The answer to the question of "who am I" made by Christianity in Middle Century had promoted belief to the top place.

Gradually people began to have the opportunity for serious study of religions other than Christianity.

He did not subscribe to idol worship and was plagued by doubts until turning to Christianity after being advised by a Christian sage.

Traditional art critics accused the organizers of the show of trying to overthrow Christianity and American values.

Christianity is often styled as an answer to our problems, particularly for those who have no options left.

He is not the only person to see an affinity between the open-source hacker ethos and Christianity.

To some people, Christianity seems to be a set of rules and rituals, a faith filled more with bad news than good news.

Neo- Platonism ; Revival of Plato's concept of reality of "ideas" and his concentration on the "last days" affected Christianity.

Constantine also wanted to stop all this feuding about what was orthodox Christianity.

The Taliban claim responsibility for the execution-style street shooting, contending she was trying to spread Christianity.

Again one of the teachings of early Christianity like this was, once you're baptized you're not allowed to sin anymore.

What started it was one simple ideals Christianity needed to be reinvented if it wanted to be relevant to the modern world.

The roots of Friday as an unlucky day lie in early Christianity; it was the day on which Christ was crucified.

He told me that he was now trying to convert his friends and colleagues to Christianity.

And freedom of thought within the Church is of the utmost value, if Christianity is to be preserved from stagnation and superstition.

I saw how, in the name of an ideal as beautiful and humane as that of Christianity, people were annihilated.

Christianity brought a set of human values that was the basis of our Constitution of the United States of America.

Christianity is the total commitment of all I know of me to all I know of Jesus Christ.

Legend states that she was the daughter of a pagan priest, but decided to convert to Christianity.

Striking out on her own, she worked with a preacher to convert prostitutes to Christianity and lived in a progressive communal home.

Heidegger's concept of "here being" was different from that of "person" in traditional Greece and Christianity.

During that time, the colonists convinced her to convert to Christianity, and she was baptized with the name "Rebecca. "

They then lit a huge fire to burn her if she did not renounce Christianity.

I said above that Christianity rests upon certain historical claims, like the claim of the resurrection.

I will announce to you already that, as surprising as it may seem, that will lead me to talk to you today about Christianity.

Although her religion did not hold an important place in his early life, Christianity never totally lost its grip upon him.

Oh no! The word was co-opted and everything you know of as Christianity is distorted. For example, the earliest "Christ" was a woman.

But a critic of this line of reasoning can rightly raise the fact that the Ebionites were rejected as heretics by mainstream Christianity.

In Christianity, the rest of the flower is sacred grass, and is often used to decorate in religious consciousness of the altar.

The main thing is to show how Christianity did not develop in the smooth schematic way that it's presented in the Book of Acts.

In fact, Christianity was actually banned throughout Japan in the 1600s and continued to be so until the mid 1800s.

And he attached himself to that Christian teacher, and that teacher introduced him to the philosophy of Christianity.

Christianity spread within the confines of what was or used to be the Roman Empire.

confides to Pinkerton that she has secretly embraced Christianity, so that her fate may BE linked closer to that of her husband.

The idea predates Christianity, coming from ancient Babylon, where a paradeiza was an enclosure used for easy hunting.

The Taliban, in asserting responsibility for the deaths, said the aid workers were foreign spies and spreading Christianity.

Christianity with its teachings of original sin taught you that you were flawed in your nature, that you needed forgiving.

The course of Christianity in the first millennium was one of both expansion and contraction.

However, at the age of eight, I went to a Catholic convent school for a year and became acquainted with another aspect of Christianity.

Christianity also teaches about the effects of moral evils in a man's life. Man is judged by his own actions.

Jingjiao, which is called Nestorianism in the West, was one branch of Christianity.

Swinburne was an atheist and he felt very angry about Christianity's restraining of sexual expression.

Christianity told me that there is a God watching over us and that there will be a Heaven after we die and many other nice things.

But such is her animus against traditional Christianity that she cannot render quite the same service for the faith she was once devoted to.

The intention of this book is not to be an attack on Christianity.

Apocalyptic is one of those political kinds of forces in early Christianity, although certainly not the only one.

This was why Christianity and other things were able to spread so easily, why Paul was able to travel around the empire.

So all of these different texts sprang up in early Christianity, most of them in the second century.

Guinness consulted Tarot cards for a time, but came to the conclusion that the symbols of the cards mocked Christianity and Christ.

The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not commit itself to any particular denomination.

Hegel's Geist is not like the transcendent (outside of our consciousness) God of traditional Christianity.

Incidentally, these "goings-on" include such events as the beginning of Christianity [source: National Geographic].

However, when Constantine the Great became emperor in 306, he legalized Christianity and made it the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Ramsey's advice is permeated with his Christianity, but you can get a lot out of this book even if you're not religious.

It is silly to pity those who lived in times we don't like, who did not know Christianity or the discoveries of modern science.

So I don't see why there should be any problem with compatibility and mutual supplementation with Christianity or any other major religion.

It has often been said, and with truth, that Christianity is the only religion that can deal with man's past.

That became all the more urgent once local war lords, like the great Date in northern Japan, converted to Christianity.

The basic message of Christianity -- love your brother -- is obscured under torrents of blood to the point of benumbing the audience.

Christianity can be a guide and inspiration to the simple and a subject of endless reflection to the enquiring mind.

Charlemagne, a genial giant of a man, combined skill in war with a passion for learning and wholehearted support for Christianity.

In Jewish belief of the time of Christ this was taken as signifying a personal name, Adam, and this tradition was adopted into Christianity.

In fact, the owner of the Boteli Valve Group in Wenzhou would like to see all his staff convert to Christianity.

Mohler says the Adam and Eve story is not just about a fall from paradise: It goes to the heart of Christianity.

Sometimes (as we shall see) Wagner and Christianity coalesced into a single target to be attacked.

In the right-hand tend to the establishment of the dominance of the process, the spread of Christianity fueled at least played a role.

Huntington is incontrovertibly right that historically the origin of modern democracy is, as he says, rooted in Western Christianity.

Christianity was a hit with the locals and made them much happier to take on funky new words like ' martyr', ' bishop' and 'font'.

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned.

Christianity has the greatest number amount of the membership of any organization in the history of the world.

Wherefore, the covenant of Christianity has provided the federal Constitution with one of the spirit support and value resource.

These tyrannies are all the direct result of the abandonment of Biblical Christianity.

One who adheres to the religion of a people or nation that does not acknowledge the God of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.

Because what rests at the very heart of this debate is whether or not key ideas within Christianity are ultimately true or not.

Ephesus prospered for several centuries, but when Christianity came to the region, people began to abandon the pagan religion of Artemis.

As a whole, Christianity is not a testimony of the incarnated, crucified, resurrected, and ascended Christ.

And he tells me that when staff do convert to Christianity, their attitude towards their work is transformed.

She took Muhammad to see her cousin, Waraqah ibn Nawfal, an old and devout Christian man, who had left paganism for Christianity.

Daniel could be linked to the Biblical Daniel, considered a prophet by Christianity. The name "Daniel" means "judged by God" .

Unfortunately, Christianity has had a long and complicated history of its own on this score.

But close watchers of Moore should perhaps not have been surprised by his inclusion of Christianity in his latest movie.

Fundamentally speaking, Christianity is not a force contrary to science, but a stimulating and promoting force to science.

In Christianity's culture symbol system, a pigeon is the symbol of peace, purity and freedom, like an olive branch.

That was considered the doctrine in Christianity, at least up until the Reformation, so the sixteenth century.

The Armenian procession was just one of several that celebrated Easter Services in one of Christianity's holiest sites on Sunday.

You have Christian apologists, therefore, writing apologies in the second century, trying to defend Christianity against these attacks.

The nominal conversion of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great to Christianity indeed led to compromise and apostasy .

Is it a coincidence that the burgeoning war between Christianity and Islam seems hell-bent for Armageddon?

Many religions share this archetypal concept of Messiah, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

Secondly, and just as important, the new theologies emphasized that the essence of Christianity was morality.

Now all the way through the beginning of Christianity we've seen that some Christians practiced asceticism.

How reviewed Christianity is enters the Chinese society to be able to fall to the ground the survival, obtains grows strong the opportunity.

So, over the weekend, Kim Lehman, one of Iowa's two Republican National Committee members, went public with doubts on Obama's Christianity.

Now comes Christianity which says, we're going to teach you to break that cycle.

To understand the paradox of greatness and the decline of this country, we must trace the relationship of Christianity to American culture.

In the beginning of early Christianity, see, you did not have the celibate ministr.

Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle.

In the course of time, the moral principles of Christianity have been neglected, so have the principles advocated by the Wujing.

But Ignatius also is one of the earliest people we have in Christianity who claims great authority also for himself as bishop.

yes , the first woman who brought christianity to armenia was very beautiful , and she did preach all right . its clear.

Our only animosity toward Christianity , or toward any other religion or philosophy of life , is .

Various definitions of miracle are considered from the point of view of both Christianity and the religious traditions of China.

Moreover, he believed very firmly in Christianity as the way of saving human beings, and he addicted to a monkish life.

Christianity culture nourishes western literature in the external form and forms the internal spirit quality of western literature as well.

According to the Bible, entering "into Christ Jesus" means becoming a Christian and stepping through the door into Christianity.

So he's writing at the end of the second century, again, making Christianity into something that looks much more like a philosophy.

The Spanish and Dutch also brought Christianity to Taiwan, and Christianity is one of the major religions in Taiwan.

So the first scholars who talked about this term said, well there's only one world religion, Christianity.

Even today, on the fringes of Christianity and in popular journalism, there are people who claim to have found the Garden of Eden.

Clearly early Christianity has got to be studied in the context of Ancient Judaism, and so we'll do so next time.

The centerexists to promote Arab art and culture, particularly that of Arab Christianity.

The city of Rome, however, became the center of Christianity and was thought of as a holy city.

But this is not enough to make scientific hypotheses central to Christianity, any more than it makes such hypotheses central to history.

In Middle Ages, what the nature of intellect is was a disputed problem, so far as it was concerned with the faith on Christianity.

When it comes to Western countries, the majority Chinese understanding is that this potential force is Protestant Christianity.

Yet there's a sort of elitism that characteristically infiltrates theranksof institutional Christianity as history has shown.

Wright became a mentor, teacher, and guide to Obama as Obama worked to understand the power of Christianity in the lives of black Americans.

He is going to be sharing his phenomenal transformation for communism to Christianity.

on the history of the English parish church since the beginning of Christianity.

The only hope for the return of political liberty and the free society it fosters is a return to orthodox, Biblical Christianity.

The Hebrew, Greek, Latin path of the word amen fits well with the path of Christianity.

On the problem of men and women the equal education rights, Christianity played revolution role.

In answering this question, a good place to begin is with the fact that Christianity is Jewish, both in its roots and heritage.

Confessor: One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution but does not suffer martyrdom.

The establishment of Christianity involved recognition by the State of the organization.

Therefore, in Hong's ideology, the Christianity and Confucianism, the alien culture and the traditional culture are deeply contradictory.

These beliefs constituted a frame of reference and a point of departure for the proponents of social Christianity.

Christianity believed that it was the one true religion, and therefore launched in the nineteenth century all these missionary activities.

But it's important for understanding both the Roman Empire, as well as early Christianity and its patron-client relations.

Kafka 's religious view, he to the Judaism and Christianity's manner, has directly affected him to "Holy Bible" the understanding.

Penitence in early Christianity is a way of life acted out at all times by accepting the obligation to disclose oneself.

Were alive about Christianity and Buddhism already had been very long, was also following many entire lives.

Judaism, Christianity and Buddhism would form the core, but other religions would not be excluded.

All three groups were vegetarian which is suggestive of the central role such a practice once played in Early Christianity.

Such a family is a powerful discourse in favor of the reality of Christianity.

If Christianity is only a set of standards, all it can do is torment us by teaching ideals that we cannot possibly reach.

Understandably, their view would be that the "correct" vision of Christianity survived, guided by God's hand through history.

Christianity was not officially recognized, but the Jesuits were allowed to stay in Beijing for their scientific services.

Berlinski uses the argument in his book, and Collins credits it with turning him from atheism to evangelical Christianity.

In culture, there was the spreading and impacts of the Christianity.

He was initially drawn to a liberal interpretation of the Bible and argued against a fundamentalist approach to Christianity.

I think Gibbon is right in attributing great importance to this high moral level as one of the causes of the spread of Christianity.

Furthermore, Christianity's disparagement of passions, particularly the sexual ones, lowered the believer's general state of vitality.

How does Hawking, who believes in the Big Bang as the First Cause and a universe without God, tie in with Christianity?

Let us all rise up to repudiate traditional Christianity.

The beginning of the Gospel of John ends up having the Christology that now has become orthodox Christianity.

he could have made his most popular work a great play about the intersection of black Christianity and homophobia .

Judicial separation, also called separation, originated from the Canon Law of Christianity in Mediaeval Europe, and still exists today.

The joys of the season behold thee and you on earth who subscribe to Christianity prepare to celebrate the birth of your beloved Christ.

It was adapted by Christianity to be interpreted as the resurrection of Jesus.

The Roman Empire high-pressure rules and its treats Christianity the policy is the social politics reason that the monasticism emerges.

That's quite true, because Christianity was not a world religion; it existed in Europe until the modern period.

It seems to me to show a different stage in the development of Christianity.

Both Confucianism and Christianity have had certain influence and function to human love and marry.

All those elements that would end up becoming orthodox Christianity, orthodox Christology, those can be found in the Gospel of John.

Here we have a clear case of a totally different ideological take on early Christianity, but it's still apocalyptic.

integrates ideas from Christianity, Eastern religions, and psychology with a focus on the practice of forgiveness.

Christianity is ever-present, with its wonderful parable of the prodigal son, to urge us to counsels of forbearance and forgiveness.

Driven underground, Christianity not only survived, but with its own Chinese martyrs, it grew in strength.

Having been brought up as an atheist, Lewis embraced Christianity when he experienced World War II.

Western legal tradition had been influenced profoundly by Christianity, no belief on Christianity, on belief on law.

Christianity soon disappeared, except among the Celts of Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

They advocated the need for a personal relationship with Jesus Christ long before anyone had ever heard of Evangelical Christianity.

Christianity has declined in influence in Europe and in some parts of the United States.

In Christianity and Judaism, a being composed of a body and a soul or spirit.

True Christianity has nothing to do with false denominational religions that hide behind the Christ like label.

The very hope which at the time of early Christianity and the spreading of the good news inflamed the ancient world.

And a Harvard study found that the Saudi Government blocked many web pages about Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and even Islam.

which he wrote in 1959 after returning to Christianity, he described this period of his life as a three decade "Grand Detour" .

The story of Paul's conversion from a persecutor of Christianity to its greatest champion is famed in Church history and doctrine.

Doctoral dissertation: " Secularisation and Christianity in Contemporary Britain" .

He had already promised that, to please her, he would convert to Christianity.

He incorporated Greek ideas into Christianity by showing Aristotle's thought to be compatible with church doctrine.

Jaki then discusses how the Jewish position on creation underwent a change during the first few centuries of Christianity.

In a nutshell, all the great religions of the world, apart from Christianity, say, "Do. "

Therefore, some scholars think the church chose the date of this pagan celebration to interest them in Christianity.

He believes the great project which combining Christianity and Aristotle Philosophy in Middle Ages ends in the intellective calamity.

All religions have certain days when people refrain from eating, and excessive eating in one of Christianity's seven deadly sins.

Christianity in Singapore consists of Roman Catholicism and various denominations and its numbers hover at around 14% of the population.

Tacitus, elsewhere in his Histories, refers to Christianity when alluding to the burning of the temple of Jerusalem in A.

Hinduism, Christianity and Islam partition and rule, do not conflict with each.

PROF. : He began reading books about Christianity. Next he read the Gospel of Mark.

Unlike Buddha, Mohammad, and other religious leaders, Christianity accepts that its Messiah, Jesus Christ, is still alive today.

Christianity requires another form of truth obligation different from faith.

At present, the spread of Christianity in Xinjiang is in a unordered pervasion and rapid development.

Ephesus was an important center for early Christianity.

In short, to Nietzsche, Christianity was an anti-life religion.

Today, the major Christian branches include Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodox Christianity, and Mormonism .

Yet China's discrimination lacks the moralistic bite that Christianity adds to antigay movements in the United States.

There are two opposite opinions concerning whether Christianity has tragedy or not in academic circles.

Christianity, which dominated Europe, prescribed its own goals, values and way of life.

The origins of Western Culture are often cited as ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Catholic and Protestant Christianity.

She particularly cherished "person of love" in Christianity, which is the very core of her "philosophy of love" .

In the Middle Ages, Christianity emphasized on abstinency, but bore with prostitute, and treated prostitution as a necessary evil.

With time the book created a new epoch in the textual and historical treatment of the rise of Christianity.

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Christianity is not merely a programme of conduct; it is the power of a new life.

Apocalyptic is a political ideology, but what kind of politics it teaches in the early times of Christianity can vary.

I certainly hope that they choose the version of Christianity that Jesus taught, not the bastardized version in the USA.

The policy itself was derived from a variety of sources, including Confucianism, muscular Christianity, and Social Darwinism.

It is curious to see Buddhism existing side by side with Christianity.

My grandparents had through the years come to be like my parents in rejecting Christianity.

Many of these groups were Gnostics, followers of the same strain of early Christianity reflected in the Judas gospel.

As Pastor Rick has been teaching us, we can't see Christianity is an add-on philosophy to a life we've mapped out for ourselves.

infidel, An unbeliever with respect to a particular religion, especially Christianity or Islam.

In 313 the Edict of Milan was issued by Constantine and granted religious freedom to all and made Christianity legal.

The American Christianity is a secularized religion, stressing private faith and pluralism of religion.

But under Chinese special cultural environment, medical missionary enterprise had its shortcomings in propaganda of Christianity.

Sacred scriptures of Judaism and, with the New Testament, of Christianity.

Please describe the relationship between Christianity and western constitutionalism .

During the time that I transitioned from Christianity to atheism I wrestled with many questions.

Some say Christianity and its cultural and moral legacy, which may linger even where specific beliefs have evaporated.

European culture is affected by the impact of Christianity, Christian Europe to provide an ideal model for the moral price.

Early as well as subsequent Gnostics are the dissidents within Christianity.

Like Judaism and Islam, Christianity is classified as an Abrahamic religion (see also Judeo-Christian).

First, secularization has been promoted by those whom have been hostile to traditional religion, especially Christianity.

Paul thinks of Christianity not as a jump-start but as a long, slow, deep charging of our souls for the Lord.

Sue has traveled extensively to speak to schools, churches and community groups about forgiveness and Christianity.

In western Europe, organised Christianity often acts as a modest voice in the ranks of the egalitarian left.

Christianity is divided into three religious sects: Protestantism, Catholicism, Orthodox Eastern Church.

Chinese Christianity using Chinese to do Christian thinking has become a very interesting movement.

There's that love thing, so we're know we're still in the same kind of Christianity that we were with the others.

I am a Christian and the USA is also considered as a country dominated by Christianity, but I don't like the USA.

Cats fared less well both in art and the human heart after the fall of ancient Egypt, with Christianity taking much of the blame.

Thousands of people have attended Christmas Eve celebrations at the birthplace of Christianity in Bethlehem.

Inasmuch as it is a revealed religion Christianity is not susceptible of human revision or rescue.

My only challenge to non-Christians is to judge yourselves and your beliefs by the same measure you judge Christianity.

More than 10 years ago, at age 16, I'd broken away from her brand of evangelical Christianity.

As a Christian, Madison also noted that Christianity had spread in the face of persecution from worldly powers, not with their help.

He derives strength from his Christianity.

The cult reached its peak during the days of the Roman Empire and disappeared with the advent of Christianity.

They show Christianity to be rooted in Judaism and have been called the evolutionary link between the two.

Christianity is mostly seen as a religion for the wealthy and well-educated and Westernized classes.

True Christianity cannot be privatized or isolated and must be lived in the Christ Confessing Covenant Community.

Therefore, it is very necessary to examine the relationship between the spread of Christianity and Local Economy.

Great hopes were entertained by the papacy for the conversion of the Mongols to Christianity.

Religion: Buddhism , Confucianism , and Christianity are widely practiced .

some resort to born-again Christianity even as they enrich themselves and impoverish their fellow citizens.

Until today, theindigenisation of Christianity in the regions of Jingpo nation has not been really completed.

The advent of the monotheistic religions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam confined the worship of Saturn to occult circles.

Convert pagans to Christianity; was converted to pacifism by the war.

This form of early Christianity was anti-family, for the most part, and it was anti-patriotic.

This is supported by the fact that many years later some of the tribes were practising Christianity and understood English.

So far, Christianity's spread has been largely a private matter for individual believers.