Sentence examples for feature of Christian from inspiring English sources

Yet bloodless altars are a distinguishing feature of Christian churches.

As the church matured, these speculations were pushed to the margins; Hell became a permanent feature of Christian eschatology, although its depiction was never standardized.

What almost none of them will be is "classical": Western classical composition, the dominant feature of Christian sacred music for more than a millennium, remains mostly absent from Jewish liturgical music.

The contrasting view a willingness to accept images as a normal feature of Christian practice would not have prevailed had it not satisfied certain powerful needs as Christianity spread among Gentiles long accustomed to representations of the divinity and among Hellenized Jews who had themselves earlier broken with the Mosaic commandment.

The Early Christians' habit, after the end of their persecution, of building churches (most famously St Peter's, Rome) over the burial places of martyrs who had originally been buried discreetly or in a mass grave perhaps led to the most distinctive feature of Christian funerary art, the church monument, or tomb inside a church.

(For discussion of that feature of Cook Wilson's and Prichard's views, see Kalderon and Travis forthcoming and Travis 2005).

In regions where crises are cyclical and reoccur often, like the Sahel, the impetus for preparing for and coping with emergencies needs to come from within communities themselves; helping farmers adapt to climate change, for example, has been a big feature of Christian Aid's work in the north of Mali for many years.

One feature of Nobuteru Ishihara's group is the number of second-generation politicians it contains.

The most significant feature of Kim Jong-un's speech was its marked departure of tone regarding South Korea.

The most radical feature of Richard Eyre's first-rate revival of Ghosts is its speed.

So what can be made of this key feature of Plato's philosophy?