Sentence examples for primitive faith from inspiring English sources

It is presumed that "the simple Jesus" and the "primitive faith" emerge from these documents as the core of the essence.

It can invite believers to participate more fully and wisely in the political present, as the Protestant Reformation eventually did; it can also foster dreams of returning to a more primitive faith, through violence if necessary, as happened in the Wars of Religion.

Often, and especially at the beginning of their participation, Orthodox delegates had recourse to separate statements, which made clear to the Protestant majorities that, in the Orthodox view, Christian unity was attainable only in the full unity of the primitive apostolic faith from which the Orthodox church had never departed.

Like many of the surviving great modern faiths, primitive religions used the ritual bath for negative and positive purposes.

Many wanted to return to a more primitive expression of their faith, and they reimagined Jesus as an accessible hippie, a cool friend rather than an object of veneration.

Thus the primitive Christian confession of faith, "Jesus is Lord," expressed the Disciples' perception of Jesus as the one through whom God was transformingly present to them and to whom their lives were accordingly oriented in complete trust and commitment.

It is required of a doctrinal statement that it be clear and cogent, but doctrines always point past their logical surface to some primitive revelation or deposit of faith.

Set in the North Carolina backcountry of the mid-19th century, this 1962 novel revolves around two religious visionaries who struggle to bring faith and dignity to a primitive valley community, a mission eventually undone by an excess of zeal.

When this view is taken too far, the result is necromancy or primitive superstition where everything appears to be a sign, and faith and folly become indistinguishable.

Bible-thumping religious primitives like William Jennings Bryan condemned Andrews's work as one more Darwinist assault on their faith.

Now, driven by a spurious faith in confession and revelation, texts on the net seem to secure the most primitive and gormless kind of trust.