Word: heathenism
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...China [Sept. 6] is encouraging. Christianity, however, is an underground religion in China today. Those intent on going to mainland China in the future to disseminate Christian thought had better do it in the name of jen (humanheartedness), not with the idea of "carrying the Word to the heathen Chinese...
...time when agonizingly delicate international politics is played under a penumbra of nuclear megadeath, those of simple faith can still dream evangelical dreams of a simpler time, seeing themselves standing in the wind-washed prow of a Yankee clipper, Bible in hand, carrying the Word to the heathen Chinese...
...human flash for the heathen...
...which sought to impose Hitler's ideology on the Protestant churches of Germany. As a leader of the so-called "Confessing Church," Barth, then a professor at the University of Bonn, was the principal author of the Barmen Declaration, which opposed the Nazi infiltration of Christianity as a heathen profanation of God's message. Expelled from Germany in 1935, Barth continued his war of words against Hitlerism from the University of Basel. Later he volunteered for the Swiss home defense force and served as a border guard during World...
...thing I like," wrote Richard Drake, who nevertheless stayed with the business for 20 years, "but slaves must be bought and sold. Somebody must do the trading, and why not make hay while the sun shines?" Slavery,was one of God's ways of bringing the heathen to Christianity, it was argued; and besides, slavery helped rid Africa of its well-known criminal element...