Sentence examples for christ up from inspiring English sources
The Catholic archdiocese has called Life of Brian a "blasphemy", adding that it was a "crime against religion which holds the person of Christ up to comic ridicule". The Jewish groups are equally damning.
A pale yellow chapel stands on a hill overlooking the town and Ms. Paolantonio, who exults in the area's ancient culture, says that on Good Friday, villagers carry a statue of Christ up the hill on their knees.
This work brought the problem of the nature of Christ up to date from the point of view that had been reached by biblical criticism; i.e., Christology was no longer an issue of denominational dogma but, rather, a problem of the interpretation and evaluation of the Gospel sources and of their meaning in the historical development of civilization.
* * * "The Sexuality of Christ" takes up, to put it mildly, an ultra-sensitive subject.
"The Sexuality of Christ" takes up, to put it mildly, an ultra-sensitive subject.
The kind of thing to provoke visions of palaces in Xanadu or Christ stuck up a tree.
In the 1960s some leaders in the Churches of Christ set up informal forums or conferences on unity with members of the Christian Churches, both cooperative and independent.
In 1988, his stubborn decision to show Martin Scorsese's Last Temptation Of Christ stirred up a hornet's nest in the Catholic establishment.
You would be hard pushed to make the case that the God – at least revealed in Jesus Christ – was up for invading Iraq, however much Blair might have felt he had prayed about it.
Tara Subkoff, for Imitation of Christ, jazzed up her basics with gold Puma boots and Wonder Twin wrist cuffs by Erickson Beamon that would have perfectly complemented the neon-hued hairdos at Bernhard Willhelm.
It will feature on billboards over Christmas and reads: "He's on his way: Christmas starts with Christ". Drawn up by ecumenical charity, Churchads.net, the "Ultrasound Jesus" campaign is backed by a number of Christian organisations including the Church of England, the Baptist Union, the United Reformed Church, the Anglican and the Methodist churches.
