"Uzak bir şehir ve şarkı vardı.
Ben ne yaptım?
Bir hududu zorladım."
At the end of the 1970s, many feared that Christianity in China was near extinction. But not only did it persist, it flourished. It was estimated that China had 3 million Christians in the 1980s. The number grew to 100 million by 2018. Not only did the Christian population grow, but it migrated from the heartland to the cities. In the span of one generation, Chinese Christianity became an urban movement that attracted an increasingly well-educated following.
Bu yaz yanınızdan ayırmak istemeyeceğiniz kitapları sizin için bir araya getirdik.
💬 Siz olsanız bu listeden hangisiyle başlardınız?
...may the soul be near us. Above all never lose her! Because once lost she will turn into a terribly malicious serpent, into a tiger that pounces on the unsuspecting from behind. A man who goes astray becomes an animal, but a lost soul becomes a devil.
( ...ruh bizim yanımızda olsun. Her şeyden önce onu asla kaybetme! Çünkü bir kez kaybolduğunda, o korkunç derecede kötü niyetli bir yılan, arkasından hiçbir şeyden habersiz olanlara saldıran bir kaplana dönüşecektir. Yoldan sapan bir adam bir hayvana dönüşür, ama kaybolmuş bir ruh bir şeytana dönüşür.)
"Korku garip bir şeydir," derdi. "İnsanların gözlerini yummasına, yüz çevirmesine neden olur. Korkudan iyi bir şey çıkmaz."
Bethlehem Chapel near the university gave Hus an unrivaled opportunity to circulate Wyclif’s teachings, including his criticisms of the abuses of power in the papacy. On the walls were paintings contrasting the behavior of the popes and Christ. The pope rode a horse; Christ walked barefoot. Jesus washed the disciples’ feet; the pope preferred to have his kissed.
Presiding over these far-flung outposts from his seat in the Mesopotamian city of Seleucia (near what is now Baghdad, Iraq) was the Catholicos, the patriarch of the Church of the East. The most prominent of these patriarchs was Timothy I, who held the position from 780 to 823.
To appreciate the scale of his domain, consider that by the early ninth century England had two Catholic bishops, one in York and one in Canterbury. At the same point in history, Timothy presided over nineteen metropolitans and eighty-five bishops, including a bishop in the rugged mountains of Tibet.