How To Use Christendom In A Sentence
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The camp and all Christendom shall see that I know how to right myself, and whether I yield ground one inch to the English bandog. —
The Talisman
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Its initial presentation indirectly reflected the growing polarities within Christendom.
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Its initial presentation indirectly reflected the growing polarities within Christendom.
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The Gnostics of early Christendom believed in seeking personal spiritual experience.
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While a branch of evangelical Christendom unchurches all sister denominations, such action is abhorrent to Presbyterian feeling and unknown to Presbyterian practice.
The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
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To have entered into that atmosphere would have defeated my purpose, which was to show a great and genuine progress in Christendom in these few later generations toward mercifulness — a wide and general relaxing of the grip of the law.
Mark Twain: A Biography
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True to the type, as the year 1844 drew near, when the great antitypical day of atonement was to open and the closing work of Christ to begin in the most holy place of the heavenly temple, the trumpet call of the approaching judgment hour was set pealing through all Christendom.
Our Day In the Light of Prophecy
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I thinke there is not a fairer prison in all Christendome: it is built with very faire white ashler stone, having a little walke without the roomes of the prison which is forty paces long and seven broad ....
A Wanderer in Venice
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That they were so, we have the consentient testimony of all portions of Catholic Christendom.
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Lateran, which is the representative cathedral of the Papacy and the mother church of Christendom, and to the Lateran Palace, for a thousand years the residence of the Popes of Rome.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
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Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the captain at last relented, and told him he might make himself at home.
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The mournful spectacle of a divided Christendom; of rival sects compassing land and sea to make proselytes; of the spiritual alienation of those who, in reality, belong to the one divine family; of waste and inefficiency in methods of evangelical effort; not to mention the error, pride, and worldliness inherent in the gigantic ecclesiastical systems known as denominational churches.
The Last Reformation
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At the time I speak of Knox was the Recorder of that important borough, and was possessed of all the dignity which so enhances a great officer in the eyes of the public, whether he be the most modest of beadles in beadledom, or the highest Recorder in Christendom.
The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins
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Yoder, for example, uses the term eschatological heresy in which the promises of the coming kingdom of God are seen as being fulfilled in history and in the Christendom that results from the
Musings of a Postmodern Negro
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To understand the decline of the feudal system and the transformation of the feudal tenure into the land tenure of modern Christendom, it must first be clearly understood that what I have called the indestructible idea of private property in land survived, paradoxical as it may seem, throughout the whole long reign of so-called tenure.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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For a time it seemed that Arianism would prevail over its rivals, and then after disputes, violence, and wars, the Trinitarian formula became the accepted formula of all Christendom.
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The clause among the Fourth Lateran Council decrees that proposed regulated taxes for the churches and provinces of Christendom suggests as much.
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Sadly, what is unimaginable in Christendom has not only occurred, but passes virtually without recognition, in the Islamic world.
Pope Benedict XVI, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi and the Jews
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Averroism, which is based on these facts, is brought into Christendom through Spain and Sicily.
History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
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Gravel of voice, short of word and tall of stature, the meanest bass player in Christendom.
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It is not only Catholic Christendom which has been guilty of seeking to domesticate the Holy Spirit in this way.
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Remembering how Calvin himself "dragooned" Geneva, let us be thankful for the fortune which, in one of the most critical periods of history, raised to the highest position in Christendom a man who was something more than a sectarian.
The Unseen World, and Other Essays
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Christendom; and I will swear to observe them upon the holy relique which
Quentin Durward
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Happily he was no prophet, or his head would have become (like Jeremiah's) a fount of tears, could he have foreseen that the isolated atrocity of those Spanish Bishops would have become the example and the rule, legalized and formulized and commanded by Pope after Pope, for every country in Christendom.
The Hermits
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I bring you the stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched and dishonored from pirate-raids in Kiaochow, Manchuria, South Africa & the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies.
Mark Twain
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The historical usage of the term sect in Christendom has had pejorative connotations, referring to a group or movement with heretical beliefs or practices that deviate from those of groups considered orthodox.
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You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, and bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; but Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom.
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It marks the split between Judaism and Christendom (which he calls a sect) in some obscure comment from Paul about circumcision.
Biblical Literacy: The Most Important People, Events, and Ideas of the Hebrew Bible « Books « Literacy News
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Like the elusive "elixir" - from the word al-iksir of the Arab alchemists - for changing base metal into gold, Muslim science altered medieval Christendom beyond recognition.
Informed Comment
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Search through Christendom, lengthways and breadthways, there was not a public usage, an institution, an economy, which more profoundly slept in the sunshine of divine favour or of civil prosperity, than the peculiar mode authorized and practised in
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
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In western as in eastern Christendom coronation was a religious rite which began with the anointment of the ruler with holy oil.
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Islam and violence alastair.adversaria » Some Thoughts on Islam and Violence: Atheism and secularism are, in many respects, working with borrowed moral capital when they condemn the violent past of Christendom.
Islam and violence
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The case may be illuminated by taking up the familiar parallel between the Greek heroes and the saints of early Christendom.
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But there is an Enormous Illusion named "Christendom" in Religiousness A, it needs to leap to Religiousness B by "the Absolute Paradox".
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Louis IX of France, canonized after his death, was in his lifetime a model of chivalry, justice, and piety for western Christendom, at once a rival and an exemplar to the English king.
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During the early Middle Ages seals of lead, or more properly "bulls", were in common use both in East and West, but except in the case of the papal chancery, these leaden authentications soon went out of favour in western Christendom and it became the universal practice to take the impressions in wax.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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The assertion of Europe as a secular entity by the end of the seventeenth century helped to reduce the importance of serious schisms in Christendom.
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If, then, we limit the application of the term Christendom to this, its most authentic expression, the unity of Christendom is not a lost ideal to be recovered, but a stupendous reality which has always been in stable possession.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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Pre – Adamite doctrine has been preached with but scant success in Christendom.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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When such a questionable shape is to be admitted for the first time into the brotherhood of Christendom, it is not a mere matter of idle curiosity to consider how far it is in its nature alliable with the rest, or whether 'the relations of peace and amity' with this new state are likely to be of the same nature with the _usual_ relations of the states of Europe.
Political Pamphlets
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All parties were delighted to let the rival yelpers fight it out on so distant a field as Syria; and in that country of heat and dryness, of poverty, anarchy, cruelty, and superstition, there was a skrimmage that kept all Christendom on the tenter-hooks for half-a-year; and this we believe to be the policy of the Syrian campaign.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
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As we have explained more fully in a previous book*, we inherit this system of historical pigeonholes from Christendom; that arbitrary chequerwork of hundred-year blocks was imposed upon the entire Mediterranean and Atlantic literatures for two thousand years, and it still distorts the views of history of all but the alertest minds.
The Shape of Things to Come
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Another way to legally "disinvest" in the System and reinvest in the homesteads of Christendom.
A Distributism How To
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To rouse themselves, they kick off the festivities with "Soldiers of the Cross, Arise," the bloodthirstiest tune in all of Christendom: "Seize your armor, gird it on/Now the battle will be won/Soon, your enemies all slain/Crowns of glory you shall gain.
THE DOMINIONISTS / FAR RIGHT THREAT TO AMERICA
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The medieval and early modern periods were characterised by frequent intellectual interchange, not to mention trade relations between Christendom and the Islamic world, and not just conflict.
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Christendom, during the Middle Ages; and the escalop shell, the device of
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1
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Even in Christendom, it is presumed our minds and hearts are frequently deceived.
C.S. Lewis on Evolutionism (the Myth)
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(By the way, Carl, the link on Dividing of Christendom is broken.)
New books due out this fall from Ignatius Press
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When the germs of the Manichean heresy sought to find a lodgement in the healthy body of Christendom, the reaction of that healthy body was the great Dominican tradition of learning.
Liturgy
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Anti-Semitism (and its supposed Scriptural and religious justification) was prevalent in Christendom for many centuries leading up to the holocaust.
Darwin Strips Reality of Purpose?
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But I believe it to be true that in many corners of Christendom spiritual warfare is no longer a central concern.
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In western as in eastern Christendom coronation was a religious rite which began with the anointment of the ruler with holy oil.
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overrode" just as mine did; but his face was enough and would have been evidence of his identity as my son in any court in Christendom.
Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story
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People meant what they said when they said the word Christendom.
CNN.com
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It genders the antinomianism which is going to cause a large part of professing Christendom as well as the world, to take the mark of the Beast when he appears.
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The Chinese Buddhists for example were able to conceptualise a Godhead, that contained with it three entities, all sharing the exact same substance, none afore or after the other, none greater or lesser than the other etc, just as articulated in the Creeds of Christendom!
Ecce Recensus: The Only True God Persuades A Skeptic
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Are New Agers just simply home-grown nature-lovers, or are they one of the greatest dangers to confront Christendom?
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Yes, the Palestinians would ‘increase the birth rate’ by adulterating the civilization of Christendom with harems, honor killings and cousin-marriage, among other immoral practices.
Matthew Yglesias » Israel’s Irrealism on Settlements
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While Christendom in its nominal sacral form has been dying in Western Europe there has been a widespread increase of believers in Latin America, sub Saharan Africa and much of Asia.
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IsabelIa responded warmly to the promise that the explorer would extend Christendom and convert people of the Orient to Catholicism.
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All Christendom makes merry at Christmas.
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Gothic pure, authoritative, unsurpassable, and unaccusable… not only the best, but the very first thing done perfectly in its manner by northern Christendom," said no less an authority than John Ruskin.
The Guardian World News
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In this wise, at the beginning of that thirteenth century which Catholic apologists call the apogee of civilization, did Western Christendom destroy its Eastern flank.
There Will Be Time
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for a thousand years the Roman Catholic Church was the principal church of Christendom
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For cultures with their roots in medieval Western Christendom, the word bible is both symbolic and archetypal.
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There's not a magazine in Christendom that would dare to publish it — you know that.
Chapter 35
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Educated opinion in both countries was affected by a new demonological theory which reinvented the witch as a member of a conspiracy against Christendom.
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The Holy Roman Empire ever since the first event of Charles the Great's coronation, when it justified itself as a diplomatical expedient for unifying Western Christendom, had existed more or less as a shadow.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
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As these separated communities when massed together, indeed in some cases even of themselves, count a vast number of souls, among whom many are conspicuous for their religious earnestness, this extension of the term Christendom to include them all has its solid justification.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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On the other hand the action of the state-religion upon the state, the condition of Al-Islam during the reign of Al – Rashid, its declension from the primitive creed and its relation to Christianity and Christendom, require a somewhat extended notice.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Search through Christendom, lengthways and breadthways, there was not a public usage, an institution, an economy, which more profoundly slept in the sunshine of divine favor or of civil prosperity, than the peculiar mode authorized and practised in Scotland of appointing to every parish its several pastor.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
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Ivory continued to serve many of the same purposes in Christendom as it did in Classical antiquity.
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a questionable shape is to be admitted for the first time into the brotherhood of Christendom, it is not a mere matter of idle curiosity to consider how far it is in its nature alliable with the rest, or whether
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
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Ecclesiastical term as of a bishop without a see in Christendom
Latin Quotations | Impact Lab
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Robert Guiscard, or Roger of Sicily, are all greater and stronger men, but there is no "ganger," no rover, like the man who in fifty years, after fighting in well-nigh every land of Christians or of the neighbours and enemies of Christendom, yet hoped for time to sail off to the new-found countries and so fulfil his oath and promise to perfect a life of unmatched adventure by unmatched discovery.
Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.
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These conquests left Charlemagne's empire virtually conterminous with western Christendom, a fact acknowledged by the Pope at Rome on Christmas Day, 800, with the revival of the imperial title.
