Some articles on christian, christians:
... Resident Aliens Life in the Christian Colony (ISBN 0-687-36159-1) is a 1989 book authored by theologians Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon ... It argues that churches should focus on developing Christian life and community rather than attempting to reform the secular culture ... Hauerwas and Willmon reject the idea that America or any other country is a Christian nation, instead believing that Christians should see themselves as "residents aliens" in a foreign land ...
... The term Evangelical Catholic is used by Christians who consider themselves both "catholic" and "evangelical" (meaning "gospel-centered") ... is the noun with evangelical modifying) can refer variously to evangelical Protestant Christians who consider themselves catholic Christians that identify with the historic Christian Church, who ...
... A Christian community is recorded in 1114 in Qal'a in central Algeria ... Catholic saints outside of the city of Carthage, and evidence of religious contacts with Christians of Arab Spain ... adopted in Europe at this time were disseminated amongst the indigenous Christians of Tunis, which would have not been possible had there been an absence of contact with Rome ...
... the last till after the Lebanese Civil War), seats were apportioned between Christians and Muslims in a 65 ratio, with various denominations of the two faiths allocated representation roughly ... their own higher birthrate and the higher emigration rate among Christians had by this time almost certainly produced a Muslim majority, which the parliamentary distribution did not reflect ... Christian politicians were unwilling to abolish or alter the system, however, and it was one of the factors in the 1975–1990 civil war ...
... Largest Christian populations (as of 2010) United States 246,790,000 Brazil 176,356,100 Mexico 107,780,000 Russia 102,600,000 Philippines 93,121,400 Nigeria ...
Famous quotes containing the word christians:
“There is not a Musselman alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating every Christian on earth, while the Christians are scarcely more tolerant on their side.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“Why need Christians be still intolerant and superstitious? The simple-minded sailors were unwilling to cast overboard Jonah at his own request.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)