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...is now opened. In fact, this was the most greatly desired dream of the Ottoman Sultans ever: to conquer the entire Europe and to subdue the symbol of Christianity, Vatican Fortress! This meant that the entire world should bow to them, and nothing should hinder from the world domination for many years! Nevertheless, for conquering Europe, the Ottomans needed to solve or...

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...The full title of this book is The Origins of Christianity with an Outline of Van Manen’s Analysis of The Pauline Literature. Willem Christiaan van Manen (1842-1905) was a Dutch theologian. The vast majority of van Manen’s radical criticism of the New Testament and Chris...

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..., rituals and epic poetry. It is the purpose of these articles to present the Hawaiian royal traditions unconfounded by the elements and theology of Christianity or the insidious influence of other cultural philosophies. It is our purpose to relate what will substantially be the same history, prayers, and chants that for innumerable centuries were recited by the Hawaiian...

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...ristendom known as Eastern Orthodoxy, which was split from Western or Latin Christianity in the year 1054. Its theologies and liturgies are written m...

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...em indicated by her manners, from a bewitchment of Satan, who often visits Christianity under the form of a female, as appears in the holy books, in w... ...she avowed her permission, as this practice had already been fol- lowed in Christianity. Now when this demon showed her- self stripped to me, to be pu...

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... Such talk skills not now.” It was plain that Sir Eberhard had learnt more Christianity in the hold of his Moorish pirate ship than ever in the Holy R...

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... Thing is then ours, and can be dealt with. Now surely not realization, of Christianity, or of aught earthly, do we discern in this Reign of Terror, i...

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...vince of Galatia in central Anatolia. It is principally concerned with the controversy surrounding Gentile Christians and the Mosaic Law within Early Christianity. Along with the Epistle to the Romans, it is the most theologically significant of the Pauline epistles, and has been particularly influential in Protestant thought....

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... South Australia, taught Western classics, Latin and mathematics at Trinity College, Kandy, in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Trinity College was founded on Christianity in a largely Buddhist, Hindu and Moslem country. Sinhalese and Tamil cultures added to the mix. The boys at the school were mostly from these cultures and also came from nearby countries. The school was run along...

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...cdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fourth volume covers the history of England from its conversion to Christianity up to the reign of Queen Victoria, describing history for children and young adults in an exciting and novel manner. (Introduction by Kalynda)...

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...tin by Bede on the history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between Roman and Celtic Christianity. It is considered to be one of the most important original references on Anglo-Saxon history. It is believed to have been completed in 731, when Bede was approximately 59 years old. Divided into five books, it co...

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...es to the Spaniards -- Destruction of the idols of the Totonacs -- An altar to Christianity erected on the pyramid of sacrifice -- Horrible punishment... ...he standard of Spain -- The King is converted arid baptized -- A great day for Christianity -- Levying tribute upon the Island of Matan -- The natives... ...sters of Italy, Greece and Sicily. At first heathens, they afterwards embraced Christianity, and led the van of the crusaders in the war for the recov... ...he conquest was to supplant the idol-worship of the Mexicans with the cross of Christianity, and to emphasize this intent in the minds of his men, he ... ...ir battles for them, and that they were but instruments in His hands to extend Christianity in the New World. The natives were first to attack with a ... ... declared that, having entered upon an enterprise of converting the country to Christianity, they were determined to persevere in the effort, and that... ...ing the wealth and glory which must follow their efforts to win the country to Christianity. A SELF-CONSTITUTED COUNCIL SET UP BY CORTEZ. Cortez now ... ...olic Church, which the Totonacs agreed to, and thus were the first converts to Christianity made among the people of Mexico. DESTRUCTION OF THE IDOLS ... ... professed. As Montezuma lent a willing ear to an explanation of the tenets of Christianity, Cortez was impelled to press his request for an abolition...

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...g, bound- less, for a noblest godlike Form of Man,—is not that the germ of Christianity itself? The greatest of all Heroes is One— whom we do not name... ...It has always seemed to me extremely curious this of V oltaire. T ruly, if Christianity be the highest instance of Hero- worship, then we may find her... ...Yes, from Norse Odin to English Samuel Johnson, from the divine Founder of Christianity to the withered Pontiff of Encyclopedism, in all times and pla... ...st in date of all these fables; a sorrowing protest against the advance of Christianity,—set forth reproachfully by some Conservative Pagan. King Olaf... ... Pagan. King Olaf has been harshly blamed for his over-zeal in introducing Christianity; surely I should have blamed him far more for an under-zeal in... ...ood, and alone good! This is the soul of Islam; it is properly the soul of Christianity;—for Islam is definable as a confused form of Christianity; ha... ...ristianity;—for Islam is definable as a confused form of Christianity; had Christianity not been, neither had it been. Christianity also commands us, ... ... ing, Nature has no business with you. Mahomet’s Creed we called a kind of Christianity; and really, if we look at the wild rapt earnestness with whic... ... believed, not the falsehood: it succeeded by its truth. A bastard kind of Christianity, but a living kind; with a heart-life in it; not dead, choppin...

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... that might be mentioned), the rule evidently acted upon by the Founder of Christianity was this—Given the purifica- tion of the well-head, once assum... ...character of their thoughts and expectations. He that in the early days of Christianity should have proclaimed the true theory of the solar system, or... ... supposed that, aided by powers of working miracles, some early apostle of Christianity should actually have succeeded in carrying through the Coperni... ...oderately good will be extravagantly aided by such advantages. Lectures on Christianity, that happened to be respectably written and delivered, had pr... ... the silliest of jests directed against all that was most inalienable from Christianity. Ridiculing such things, could he, in any just sense, be thoug... ...was enabled to do for India; first, to pave the way for the propagation of Christianity ,—mighty service, stretch- ing to the clouds, and which, in th...

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... B. III. It is a double impossibility; 1st, because a piracy from Tindal’s Christianity as Old as the Creation: now a piracy à parte post is common en... ...ifference, most readers will see little more than the dif- ference between Christianity and Paganism. But there I hesi- tate. The Christian church may...

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...circumstances without precedent, and (wherever human nature is ennobled by Christianity) it may be confidently hoped—never to be repeated. The first p... ...e lost or were removed to an incalculable distance for their conversion to Christianity, without which in these times there is no abso- lute advance p... ...er, as his modern successor; or else it refers simply to the Greek form of Christianity professed by the Russian Emperor and Church. *Thoughts on Some... ... that might be mentioned,) the rule evidently acted upon by the Founder of Christianity was this—Given the purifica- tion of the fountain, once assume... ...tate through the centuries succeeding to Christ, during which paganism and Christianity were slowly descending and ascending, as if from two different... ... its patience, its suffering life, and its association with the founder of Christianity in one great triumphal so- lemnity. The very man who brutally ... ...- glish racer, by continual care. *Mahometanism, which everywhere pillages Christianity, can- not but have its own face at times glorified by its stol... ...ause their bodies were exclusively mangled. How little can it be said that Christianity has yet developed the fulness of its power, when kings and sen... ...itions of Paganism; and we have shown that, in the modern superstitions of Christianity, or of Mahometanism, (often enough borrowed from Christian sou...

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...im’s Progress, does not, like his unread imitators, attempt to per- sonify Christianity and Valour: he dramatizes for you the 31 Shaw life of the Chr...

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... ways angry; and she always has enemies, and always enemies in the name of Christianity and doing good.” After Countess Lidia Ivanovna another friend ...

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...f healthy public opinion, to practice that ab- stinence which morality and Christianity alike enjoin. This is my second contention. In the third place...

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... Thing is then ours, and can be dealt with. Now surely not realization, of Christianity, or of aught earthly, do we discern in this Reign of Terror, i...

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...is highly likely that you would be a Muslim.‖ —―I‘d have to agree with you. But you know there are many Muslims who have converted to Christ... ...aac to his progeny, the Jews. Jesus of course was always a Jew. He, like many other Jewish thinkers, taught a different concept of his faith. Christ... ...m the first born son of Abraham, Ishmael, born of the Arab slave Hagar before Abraham‘s wife Sarah had conceived Isaac. ―So Judaism, Christ... ...e same attributes and the same world view, you are not only immoral, but you cannot see that god in heaven. The religious reactionary right in Christ... ...d for worshiping rights at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem at Eastertime in 2008. Their claims to ecclesiastical exclusivity of Christ... ...dvanced level of sciences, literature and the arts. Agriculture was improved. Architecture advanced. The Moslem achievements dwarfed those of Christ... ...estral county. ―But while some find comfort in the past others look to newer groups to find comfort. They may convert to Islam from Christ...

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...arriers between Europe and Asia that the religious feud between Islam and Christianity had erected. ―The effect in diffusing and broadening men‘s...

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...ic; the founding of the empire; the breaking up of the empire; the rise of Christianity upon its ruins; the spread of the religion to other lands—and ... ...The Middle Ages come in between antiquity and posterity. Luther introduced Christianity into England a good many thousand years ago. His birthday was ...

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...cient world was in its last throes, the an cient religions were overcome by Christianity. When Christian ideas succumbed in the 18th century to ratio... ...thing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, agains...

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...benevolent maker and ruler of such a world as this, can say little against Christianity but what can, with at least equal force, be retorted against t... ... to be embodied in what is commonly presented to man kind as the creed of Christianity. Think (he used to say) of a being who would make a Hell—who w... ...radictions, and perverting to the moral sentiments, as any of the forms of Christianity, if only it is as completely realized. Yet very little, with a... ...ons of Richard Carlile and his wife and sister for publications hostile to Christianity were then exciting much attention, and nowhere more than among... ...ical period of the Greek philosophers. Another organic period came in with Christianity. The cor responding critical period began with the Reformatio...

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... of peace. The natives kill the missionary: he flies to arms in defence of Christianity; fights for it; con- quers for it; and takes the market as a r...

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...in, significance enough? “From Suicide a certain after shine ( Nachschein) of Christianity withheld me: per haps also a certain indolence of character... ... for thee!’—If Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre be, ‘to a certain extent, Applied Christianity,’ surely to a still greater extent, so is this. We have here... ...at followed therefrom. Higher has the human Thought not yet reached: this is Christianity and Christendom; a Symbol of quite perennial, infinite charac...

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...lish fable, like the Pope, to whom he is a pitiful purveyor. 458 His very Christianity may be questioned. 459 He ought to expect more severity than ... ... of Billingsgate can never be the language of charity, nor consequently of Christianity.’—P . 311 ‘On Codrus’ old, or Dunton’s modern bed:’ of Codrus... ...rd Oxford. Tindal was author of the ‘Rights of the Christian Church,’ and ‘Christianity as Old as the Creation.’ He also wrote an abu- sive pamphlet a...

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...s engraved upon his mind must follow after profit with some conscience and Christianity of method. A man cannot go very far astray who neither dishono...

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...rt has served Religion; artists have found the most exalted inspiration in Christianity; but the light of Transfiguration which has illumi- nated the ...

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...haps valued highest in his work were his contri- butions to the defence of Christianity; one of which, in par- ticular, was praised by Hutchinson Stir...