Thus, over the past 1, 500 years, some Christians have used the term Arian to refer to those groups that see themselves as worshiping Jesus Christ or respecting his teachings, but do not hold to the Nicene creed.

What is clear is that formally, there is mostly peaceful living side by side, with strong inter-dialogue at many levels to reconcile past differences between the two groups, and many Christians emphasize common historical heritage and religious continuity with the ancient spiritual lineage of the Jews.

Paul hopes that all of Israel will come to realize the truth since he himself was also an Israelite, and had in the past been a persecutor of Early Christians.

Full preterism is sometimes viewed as heretical, based upon the historic creeds of the church ( which would exclude this view ), and also from Biblical passages that condemn a past view of the Resurrection or the denial of a physical resurrection or transformation of the body — doctrines which most Christians believe to be essential to the faith.

The Catholic Church already denounced antisemitic views held by Christians in the past with a series of statements beginning in 1937 ( cf.

Memory is very important to Chahine ’ s most recent work — whether of the " city of my childhood, Alexandria, between the two world wars tolerant, secular, open to Muslims, Christians and Jews " or of a more distant past: such as evoked in Adieu Bonaparte ( 1985 ), based on the cultural aspect of Bonaparte ’ s expedition into Egypt ( 1798 ).

This returned Jerusalem to Muslim control, but the fall of Jerusalem was no longer an earth-shattering event to European Christians, who had seen the city pass from Christian to Muslim control numerous times in the past two centuries.

The relationship of Christianity to other faiths is encumbered to some extent by this history, with modern Christians, particularly in the West, expressing embarrassment over the violence in Christianity's past.

Many South Korean Christians view their religion as a factor in the country's dramatic economic growth over the past three decades, believing that its success and prosperity are indications of God's blessing.

Most mainstream Christians believe Jesus of Nazareth to be the Messiah, and regard any other past or future claimant as false.

Péter Erdő, the Archdiocese of Esztergom and the Hungarian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, in a letter to Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, issued a statement expressing " full solidarity with the Armenian Christians and with the Armenian people that has so much suffered in the past.

" The nave mosaics ( which represents stories of Old Testament history and accordingly offered Christians in Rome a new ' past ') are illusionistic in a colorful and impressionist manner " as this scholar puts it the scene was filled with movement, emotion, and it was to inspire thinking of Rome's " new " past ; the past of the Old Testament.

As quick as Cato is to point out how badly the Christians have treated the Arabs, Mr. Fairbanks and Gretchen are quick to point out how much the Arabs used slavery against their own people in the past.

Even though it is not comparable to the state sponsored persecution of the past, P ' ent ' ay Christians in Ethiopia still face persecution from private citizens in Muslim dominated rural areas.

Life ... revised reminds Christians and non-Christians that life really is a series of revisions, and there is hope for the future no matter what has happened in their past.

This system of maintaining the Christians as a protected religious community continued after the Islamic conquest of the Sassanids, and the community of Nestorian Christians flourished and was able to send missionaries far past the Empire's borders, reaching as far as China and India.

Sandra Bowden ( born 1943 ) is an artist and painter from New York and is a past president ( 1993 – 2007 ) of " Christians in the Visual Arts ".

It is a religious devotional festive dance with a mock battle depicting the war between the Moros and the Christians in Granada, Spain in centuries past.

This widely recognized knot has been used as a singular symbol for the past two centuries by Celtic Christians, Pagans and agnostics as a sign of special things and persons that are threefold.

It includes stories and testimonies of Christians from all over the world, past and present, who have been persecuted, tortured, or martyred for their Christian beliefs.

Bruce Feiler writes that " Jews and Christians who smugly console themselves that Islam is the only violent religion are willfully ignoring their past.

Her glance swung past the trailer where the two drivers were standing.

Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

In the past, the duties of the state, as Sir Henry Maine noted long ago, were only two in number: internal order and external security.

From this point of view the `` militant mobs '' of the past, stirred into action by one ideology or another, were all composed of `` intellectuals '' -- and this is not the level on which the essence of mankind can be discovered.

In the past these same Southerners were inclined to look the other way.

A week later the sentence of the Council was carried out: Jake Camaret and the woman were marched naked through the streets past a mocking populace.

A fringe of housing and gardens bearded the top of the heights, and behind it were sandy roads leading past farms and hayfields.

The doctor stood about, waiting for Alex to dress, with a show of impatience, and soon they were moving, as quietly as could be, through the still-dark hallways, past the bedroom of the patronne, and so into the street.

During the past year, 10,517 government bid invitations were received and 4,427 procurement leads were mailed to Rhode Island manufacturers.

For example, the interest of past members of the Foundation's Advisory Board remains such that they place their knowledge and judgments at our disposal much as they had done when they were, formally, members of that Board.

Yet they were not so bound by past experience and constriction as to deny their immediate perceptions and to be dominated by their knowledge of what the experience should be.

They were able to experience at first, in terms of past conventionality.

It is probably more effective than the expanded scholarship programs of the past decade, because the scholarship programs mainly aided the students with the best academic records ( who were usually middle-class ), and these students tended to use the scholarship funds to go to more expensive colleges.

The suggestion that in saying something evil had occurred we were after all making no mistake, because we had never meant anyhow to say anything about the past suffering, seems to me merely frivolous.

The ninth century was in its artistic work `` the spiritually freest and most self-sufficient between past and future '', and the loving skill spent by its artists upon their products is a testimonial to their sense that what they were doing was important and was appreciated.

Many potters clung to the past the more determinedly as they were confronted with radically new ideas ; ;

But such cases were, in the past, unusual.

Fortunately we were alone in the building -- so few people nowadays are interested even in their own past or in the lovely craft of other days -- for they began to abuse each other in the foulest language.

The Troop is proud of its camping-out program -- on year-round schedule and was continued even when sub-zero temperatures were registered during the past winter.

30% of them worried about past happenings which were completely beyond their control ; ;

It was past midnight and we were in bed when the phone rang.

Brain ships were, of course, long past the experimental stages.

Several of the dialects have been influenced by contact with non-Germanic linguistic groups, such as the dialect of Carinthia, where in the past many speakers were bilingual with Slovene, and the dialect of Vienna, which has been influenced by immigration during the Austro-Hungarian period, particularly from what is today the Czech Republic.