Sentence examples for Foundation of the church from inspiring English sources

He called the current upheaval the worst in 100 years or more, saying the damage represented "cracks in the foundation" of the church.

Soon enough, scholars came in and said that the Gnostics may indeed have thought those things but that such views could not serve as the foundation of the Church.

Jesus didn't go around in his own life talking about the church, the church developed after His death; Matthew retrojects the conversation about the church, and even the foundation of the church, and sort of laws about the church into the mouth of Jesus.

Portraying the Vatican as indifferent to the AIDS epidemic fails to acknowledge the foundation of the church's teachings, and thus shortchanges an honest discussion of the issues.

7 And when they had raised this up level with p345 the rock they set vaults upon the supporting walls, and joined this substructure to the other foundation of the church.

The earliest, resplendent in gold, date back to the foundation of the church, the latest (except for a very few modern replicas) belong to the 13c, and they are all beautiful.

Between the command to silence, which came right after the confession in Mark, Matthew puts all this foundation-of-the church stuff.

In the Fāṭimid period (909 1171), a mosque was built over the foundations of the church in the court; the mosque was dedicated to Sheikh Yūsuf al-Ḥaggāg, a local saint who is reputed to have introduced Islam to Luxor.

Many of the foundations of the church -- among them, the beliefs that American Indians were Jews who sailed across the Atlantic, and that the biblical Garden of Eden was really a verdant patch of Missouri, in what is now a parking lot near Harry Truman's home -- are embedded as divinely inspired, historical facts in the golden-plated Book of Mormon brought forth by Smith.

"There's a hole to the right of the altar, which requires you to go down a flight of stairs, but after that you can see the original foundations of the church, the remains of the original one that first stood here – pillars, altar and all – and even the burials of the abbey's first abbots and their burial objects.

The church is built on the Bronze Age puddingstone circle, which has been incorporated into the foundations of the church.