Sentence examples for Christian purposes from inspiring English sources

It attracts the ire of those who dislike Lewis's Christian purposes because it takes us to the Last Judgment.

This imitation of Cicero's Orator for Christian purposes sets out a theory of the interpretation of Scripture and offers practical guidance to the would-be preacher.

The veneration of Confucius, the great Chinese religious and philosophical leader, and the religious honours paid to ancestors were to be seen not as elements of paganism to be rejected out of hand but as rituals of Chinese society that could be adapted to Christian purposes.

In this he refers to the work of Augustine of Hippo, specifically On Christian Doctrine, in which Augustine describes the knowledge of pagans as gold and silver: something that can be involved in Christian purposes if appropriated properly.

This (possibly purposeful) loss of iconographic understanding, also referred to as "un-naming", seems to have been a way for pagan artifacts to be reused for Christian purposes; the Cup of the Ptolemies is therefore an example of interpretatio christiana, or the adaptation of non-Christian elements of culture or historical facts to the worldview of Christianity.

The first item, that Jefferson "urged local governments to make land available specifically for Christian purposes," is copied verbatim from David Barton's article "The Founders on Public Religious Expression". The only source cited by Barton for this vague claim is an exchange of letters between Jefferson and John Carroll, the Bishop of Baltimore, in 1801.

And there is undeniably an underlying sense of Christian purpose to her work.

Anthea Butler, associate professor of religious studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, argued that though Graham was openly nonpartisan, he "laid the groundwork for Trump and evangelicals today". Graham wound himself into political life and advanced the idea that America has a unique Christian purpose.

John and Patrick Hennessy and a homeless street sweeper named Roberta Nazat, whose own Christian purpose is cleaning the right side of 170th Street between Walton and Jerome (and who sleeps on a couch at John's when the nights get cold), are about the only white people in the neighborhood, but John does not put himself in the same class of "saintly" as Father Hennessy or Bobbie the Sweeper.

Dante certainly would have been familiar with these commentaries, and like the allegorical commentators he read, he found a Christian purpose for the ancient pagan work.

Education began in this country for the Christian purpose of Bible reading and developing moral citizens, and we believe in education that glorifies God, but not for subversive, politically-correct indoctrination.