Sentence examples for idea of christ from inspiring English sources

Durkheim, who viewed Catholicism from his place within Judaic culture, thought it was, "inconceivable without the ever-present idea of Christ and his ever-practised cult, for it is by the ever-living Christ sacrificed each day, that the community of believers continues to communicate with the supreme source of the spiritual life".

Philip Pullman was first inspired to write about Jesus by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is himself the author of a superb book about Dostoevsky and his wrestle with the idea of Christ.

Because of that idea of Christ as a "mode" of divine self-manifestation, proponents of that view were dubbed "modalists"; from an early supporter of the view it was called Sabellianism.

"In my tradition," she said, "it's forbidden to engage in idol worship, and I wondered how I would approach Irena's idea of Christ, and that he is the son of God.

Instead, he speaks passionately about Christ, and he embraces the idea of Christ's Incarnation, because it offers a vision of the divine bound up in the material world.

It is also true that in the last millennium or so the idea of Christ's death as a necessary sacrifice has been stressed by Catholic and Protestant teaching.

At the same time, a new form of spirituality emphasized the humanity of Christ and the idea of Jesus as a suffering servant.

Jesus failed to live up to their idea of the Christ, which was, coincidentally, the exact image of their own religiously sanitized ideology.

"The idea of bringing Christ to the court — that can be honoring the guy who hits a good shot," Sam said.

Anyway, he says that as soon as he got the phone call asking him to submit ideas for the fourth plinth, he thought immediately of Christ.

"I think it has to do with the idea of victory, that Christ defeated death and gave an award of eternal life and happiness," he said.