It is also sufficient to show the Christian and any other champion of justice that he needs to make sure not only that his cause is just but also that his conduct is just, i.e., that, if economic pressure has to be resorted to, this be applied directly against those persons directly in the way of some salutary change in business or institutional practices, while, if injury fall upon others, it fall upon them indirectly and secondarily ( however inevitably ) and not by deliberate intent and direct action against them.

The justification in Christian conscience of the use of any mode of resistance also lays down its limitation -- in the distinction between the persons against whom pressure is primarily directed, those upon whom it may be permitted also to fall, and those who may never be directly repressed for the sake even of achieving some great good.

When they fall by the wayside and fail to achieve Christian stature, it is an indictment of the Church.

The Almoravids were crucial in avoiding a precipitated fall of Al-Andalus to the Iberian Christian kingdoms, when they decisively beat a coalition of the Castilian and Aragonese armies at the Battle of Sagrajas.

William IV, Count of Nevers had promised the Christian bishops of Bethlehem that if Bethlehem should fall under Muslim control, he would welcome them in the small town of Clamecy in present-day Burgundy, France.

He viewed Christ as the cause and reason for the reconciliation of man with God after the fall of Adam, and he saw in Christ the path to Christian salvation.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

The divergent opinions fall into two main groups: Complementarians ( who call for husband-headship and wife-submission ) and Christian Egalitarians ( who believe in full partnership equality in which couples can discover and negotiate roles and responsibilities in marriage ).

Tom Cain uses the expression " founding myths " more broadly, to encompass such stories as those of the War in Heaven and the fall of man ; according to Cain, " the disastrous consequences of disobedience " is a pervasive theme in Christian founding myths.

While the Roman Empire and its new Christian religion survived in an increasingly Hellenised form in the Byzantine Empire centered at Constantinople in the East, Western civilization suffered a collapse of literacy and organization following the fall of Rome in AD 476.

However, the group saw its membership fall sharply in the late 1980s, as many centre-right members moved to the rival European People's Party group, dominated by the German CDU and the ideology of Christian democracy in general.

The poem is about the fall of King Haakon I of Norway ; although he is Christian, he is taken by two valkyries to Valhalla, and is there received as one of the Einherjar.

Meanwhile the Christian kingdoms in the north began the long and slow recovery of the peninsula, a process called the Reconquista, which was concluded in 1492 with the fall of Granada.

Christian tradition, influenced by this presentation, came to use the Latin word for " morning star ", lucifer, as a proper name (" Lucifer ") for Satan as he was before his fall.

Legends of the Jews is an original synthesis of a vast amount of aggadah from all of classical rabbinic literature, as well as apocryphal, pseudopigraphical and even early Christian literature, with legends ranging from the creation of the world and the fall of Adam, through a huge collection of legends on Moses, and ending with the story of Esther and the Jews in Persia.

Original sin, also called ancestral sin, is, according to a Christian theological doctrine, humanity's state of sin resulting from the fall of man.

Unitarians fall outside of Trinitarian Christianity, and the question arises as to the degree to which the presidents themselves held Christian precepts.

During that period Christian kingdoms gradually took control over the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim kingdoms and with the fall of the Granadian emirate, the entire Iberian Peninsula was brought under Christian rule, while native Mozarabic Christian practices held for centuries in Muslim-ruled territory were first suppressed as early as 1080, by Alfonso VI of Castile, as Roman-rite Christian kingdoms advanced south.

Hard supersessionism implies both punitive and economic supersessionism ; soft supersessionism does not fall into any of the three classes recognized as supersessionist by Christian theologians, instead it is associated with Jewish Christianity.

Following the fall of Marcos Pérez Jiménez in 1958, Venezuelan politics was dominated by the third-way Christian democratic COPEI and the center-left social democratic Democratic Action ( AD ) parties ; this two-party system was formalized by the puntofijismo arrangement.

The same understanding is shown in Christian translations of the passage, which in English generally use " morning star " rather than treating the word as a proper name, " Lucifer ".

* From the fourth Century Lucifer is sometimes used in Christian theology to refer to Satan, as a result of identifying the fallen " son of the dawn " of Isaiah 14: 12 with the " accuser " of other passages in the Old Testament.

This is an elaboration on the common Christian theory that evil began in heaven when an angelic being ( Lucifer ) rebelled against the Law of God.

* Morning Star has been used alternatively to refer to the Christian Devil / Lucifer, Jesus, and Mary.

" Although she is referred to as " the devil ," Miss Lucifer is not necessarily Satan ( see Lucifer ) as certain critics ( predominantly Christian fundamentalists ) have argued.

" St. Michael has been depicted from earliest Christian times as a commander, who holds in his right hand a spear with which he attacks Lucifer / Satan, and in his left hand a green palm branch.

When this description was interpreted as regarding an angel, not a human king, the image of the fallen morning star or angel was applied to Satan both in Jewish pseudepigrapha and by early Christian writers, following the transfer of the Lucifer myth to Satan in the pre-Christian century.

In the 4th century, Jerome's translation of the " morning star " as " Lucifer " carried the fallen-star myth-element into Christian mythology.

The name " Venus " alludes to the " morning star " and the fallen angel of Christian mythology, Lucifer.

She claimed he belonged to a group of beings, the " Lords of the Flame ", whom Christian tradition have misunderstood as Lucifer and the fallen angels.

She claimed he belonged to a group of beings, the " Lords of the Flame ", whom Christian tradition have misunderstood as Lucifer and the fallen angels.

Other snakes used were a Reticulated Python named Lucifer, an unnamed ( de-venomized ) Cobra that bit Macho Man Randy Savage, and an albino Burmese Python named Revelations ( during Jake's Christian conversion gimmick in 1996 ).

Tonight, a full expose on a North London Christian group who earnestly believe the planet is being run by Lucifer.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

The football opponent on homecoming is, of course, selected with the view that said opponent will have little more chance than did a Christian when thrown to one of the emperor's lions.

It is true, of course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now and then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.

First of all, it is now known that Pope John sees the renewal and purification of the Church as an absolutely necessary step toward Christian unity.

Secondly, a whole series of addresses and actions by the Pope and by others show that concern for Christian unity is still very much alive and growing within the Church.

it is necessary to perceive the extent of foreign aid demanded by the Christian imperative.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

Even in the United States, with its freedom of religious belief and worship and its vast denominational differentiation, there is a general consensus regarding the basic Christian values.

Kent and Story, the great early American scholars, repeatedly made use of this phrase, or of `` Christian nations '', which is a substantial equivalent.

To others whose concern it is to penetrate the significance of Christian Humanism, the Renaissance elements are of primary concern.

To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors-in-spirit, the monastic communities, is with an appropriate shift of adjectives, misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato's Republic: in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes, in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes.

Denouncing the view that the sexual union is an end in itself, the Conference declared: `` We steadfastly uphold what must always be regarded as the governing considerations of Christian marriage.

An action once universally condemned by all Christian churches and forbidden by the civil law is now not only approved by the overwhelming majority of Protestant denominations, but also deemed, at certain times, to be a positive religious duty.

Progress will take place far less through what is done in any `` summit conference '' of the National Council or the World Council, or even in offices of the denominational boards, than through what happens in the communities where Christian people live together as neighbors.

What is now called Christian fellowship is often little more than the social chumminess of having a gracious time with the kind of people one likes.

It is, he said, a bifocal vision, which can see both the near-at-hand and the distant and keep a Christian in right relation to both.

It is raising no disturbing question as to what Christian stewardship means for the relationship of the richest nation in the world to economically underdeveloped peoples.

It is not disturbing them by thoughts of their Christian responsibility in relation to the world.

The identification of the basic unit of religious organization -- the parish or congregation -- with a residential area is self-defeating in a modern metropolis, for it simply means the closing of an iron trap on the outreach of the Christian fellowship and the transmutation of mission to co-optation.

Spiritual life is cultivated, but students do not need to be Christian.