Sentence examples for militant church from inspiring English sources
The true Church is presently divided into three parts: the triumphant Church in heaven; the sleeping Church in purgatory; and the militant Church on earth (ibid., p. 8).
But the militant Church on earth cannot be identified with the visible church and its hierarchy.
That Britain's and America's "better angels"—representative government, personal liberty and freedom of opportunity usually arrived "with a military escort", or again that militant, low-church Protestantism stamped the politics of both countries is hardly news to historians.
Yes, says terrorism expert Peter Bergen, who noted that Islamic militants attacked churches on Dec. 24, 2000, in Indonesia.
Shouting "Allahu akbar," Boko Haram militants burn churches and employ everything from guns to machetes to gasoline bombs in their attacks.
Supporters of the church militant note that he gained prominence in the 1980s speaking against illegal loggers.In this section Ready to roll (again)?
This is the Isle of Lewis, where for most of the past two centuries the Presbyterian church militant has made the rules on Sunday.
Less widely known are his efforts to cultivate strategic alliances with those in Rome who share his interpretation of a right-wing "church militant" theology.
Like them, Bannon believes in an Eurasian Christian empire led by "the church militant" that will reform religious, economic, political and social foundations around the world.
The fragmented and weak resistance to the church militant is motivated by a novel called The Man in the High Castle, by a certain Philip K Dick, who dares to imagine a world in which the Reformation triumphed.
In medieval Western Christianity, special emphasis was placed on the benefits to be derived for the living ("the church militant") through the intercession of the saints in heaven with God ("the church triumphant"); the dead who were not yet perfected ("the church suffering") were also believed to be the beneficiaries of prayers said in their behalf.
