聖職者は人生の落伍者の方に味方して、勝利者を説得し、歩み寄らせることを生業としているようにおもえる。の英語

The priest seems to make it a practice to climb on the underdog's bandwagon and persuade the other side to compromise.

a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support

a New Testament book containing the epistle from Saint Paul to the Ephesians which explains the divine plan for the world and the consummation of this in Christ

a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired

a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior

the theological doctrine that by faith and God's grace a Christian is freed from all laws (including the moral standards of the culture)

any of the spiritual leaders who are assumed to be authors of the Gospels in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels

a British or Irish monk who denied the doctrines of original sin and predestination and defended human goodness and free will

we may diligently observe the Lord's supper on the first day of the week, diligently preach the gospel, or minister to the saint

the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings

any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom

When the early Protestant immigrants came to this country, they brought the idea that work was the way to God and heaven.

a sudden turning point in a person's life (similar to the sudden conversion of the Apostle Paul on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus of arrest Christians)

The early Church not unnaturally adopted the position that failure to see the messianic character of his work was really caused by the people's own blindness

of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament

in the seventeenth century England had known fifty years of doctrinal quarrels and civil war; clergymen had been turned from their cures, and churches irreverently used

the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church

The original basilica was built in the fourth century over the burial site of St. Peter, one of Jesus Christ's Twelve Apostles.

any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims

Italian theologian who censured the worldly possessions of monks and the temporal power of bishops and was condemned for dogmatic errors by the Second Lateran Council (early 12th century)

one of the great Fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate)

the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit

pope who in 1122 forced the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V to sign a concordat that recognized the right of the church to choose its own leadership (died in 1124)

the theological doctrine of the Society of Friends characterized by opposition to war and rejection of ritual and a formal creed and an ordained ministry

an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine

followers of an unorthodox, extremist, or false religion or sect who often live outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader

a battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne

a form of Christian theology (developed by South American Roman Catholics) that emphasizes social and political liberation as the anticipation of ultimate salvation

The church we went past crumbled five minutes later due to a huge earthquake, and more than a hundred churchgoers were buried alive.