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Christian Soldier (other)
The phrase Christian soldier may refer to: * Miles Christianus, a Christian allegory based on New Testament military metaphors. * Christians in the military * Military order (society), one of a variety of Christian societies of knights. * Church militant and church triumphant See also * Miles Christi (other) * Holy war#Christianity * New Testament military metaphors * ''Onward, Christian Soldiers'' * ''Soldiers of Christ, Arise "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" is an 18th-century English hymn. The words were written by Charles Wesley (1707–1788), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Christianus
The ''miles Christianus'' (Christian soldier) or ''miles Christi'' (soldier of Christ) is a Christian allegory based on New Testament military metaphors, especially the Armor of God metaphor of military equipment standing for Christian virtues and on certain passages of the Old Testament from the Latin Vulgate. The plural of Latin ''miles'' (soldier) is ''milites'' or the collective ''militia''. By the 5th century, the Church had started to develop doctrines that allowed for Christian participation in battle, though this was limited by a requirement that the fighting must be undertaken to convert infidels or spread the glory of Christ. Christians were not to fight for conquest or personal glory. Overview The concepts of ''miles Christi'' and ''militia Christi'' can be traced back to the first century AD. The phrase ''miles Christi,'' derived from a letter from Paul the Apostle and much employed by Pope Gregory VII, also appeared in the '' Gesta Francorum'' in reference to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christians In The Military
Christians have been present in the military since before the death of Jesus Marinus of Caesarea, Julius the Veteran, and other military saints were Christians who were soldiers, although other Christians, such as Maximilian of Tebessa, were conscientious objectors, believing that the Bible supported Christian pacifism. Under the Emperor Diocletian, attempts were made to Diocletianic Persecution#Christians in the army, purge Christians from the army. However, the Roman army continued to include many Christians, and the presence of large numbers of Christians in his army may have been a factor in the conversion of Constantine I to Christianity. The presence of Christians on both sides led to the unofficial Christmas truces of World War I, commemorated in the film ''Joyeux Noël''. Military chaplains minister to Christians serving in the military forces of many countries, and organisations such as the Armed Forces Christian Union (UK) and Officers' Christian Fellowship (US) are made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Order (society)
A military order ( la, militaris ordo) is a Christian religious society of knights. The original military orders were the Knights Templar, the Knights Hospitaller, the Order of Saint James, the Order of Calatrava, and the Teutonic Knights. They arose in the Middle Ages in association with the Crusades, both in the Holy Land, the Baltics, and the Iberian peninsula; their members being dedicated to the protection of pilgrims and the defence of the Crusader states. They are the predecessors of chivalric orders. Most members of military orders were laymen who took religious vows, such as of poverty, chastity, and obedience, according to monastic ideals. The orders owned houses called commanderies all across Europe and had a hierarchical structure of leadership with the grand master at the top. The Knights Templar, the largest and most influential of the military orders, was suppressed in the early fourteenth century; only a handful of orders were established and recognized aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Militant And Church Triumphant
In some strains of Christian theology, the Christian Church may be divided into: *the Church Militant (), also called the Church Pilgrim which consists of Christians on earth who struggle as soldiers of Christ against sin, the devil, and "the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places"; *the Church Penitent (), also called the Church Suffering () or the Church Expectant (), which in the theology of certain churches, especially that of the Catholic Church, consists of those Christians currently in Purgatory; and *the Church Triumphant (), which consists of those who have the beatific vision and are in Heaven. Within Catholic ecclesiology these divisions are known as the "three states of the Church." The actual language used in the ''Catechism of the Catholic Church'' states that “''The'' ''three states of the Church…'' at the present time some of his disciples are pilgrims on earth. Others have died and are being purified, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Christi (other)
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Miles Christi or Milites Christi (Latin for ''Soldier of Christ'') may refer to: * Soldiers of the Crusades * Miles Christi (Religious Order), a multinational Catholic religious order founded in Argentina in 1994 * Miles Christianus ideal/allegory * Members of the Iona Community * Knights of the Order of Dobrzyń See also * Christian soldier (other) The phrase Christian soldier may refer to: * Miles Christianus, a Christian allegory based on New Testament military metaphors. * Christians in the military * Military order (society), one of a variety of Christian societies of knights. * Church mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy War
A religious war or a war of religion, sometimes also known as a holy war ( la, sanctum bellum), is a war which is primarily caused or justified by differences in religion. In the modern period, there are frequent debates over the extent to which religious, economic, ethnic or other aspects of a conflict are predominant in a given war. The degree to which a war may be considered religious depends on many underlying questions, such as the definition of religion, the definition of 'religious war' (taking religious traditions on violence such as 'holy war' into account), and the applicability of religion to war as opposed to other possible factors. Answers to these questions heavily influence conclusions on how prevalent religious wars have been as opposed to other types of wars. According to scholars such as Jeffrey Burton Russell, conflicts may not be rooted strictly in religion and instead may be a cover for the underlying secular power, ethnic, social, political, and economic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Testament Military Metaphors
The New Testament uses a number of military metaphors in discussing Christianity, especially in the Pauline epistles. In Philippians 2:25 and Philemon 1:2, Paul describes fellow Christians as "fellow soldiers" (in Greek, συστρατιώτῃ, ''sustratiōtē''). The image of a soldier is also used in 2 Timothy 2:3–4 as a metaphor for courage, loyalty and dedication; this is followed by the metaphor of an athlete, emphasising hard work. In 1 Corinthians 9:7, this image is used in a discussion of church workers receiving payment, with a metaphorical reference to a soldier's rations and expenses. Ephesians 6:10–18 discusses faith, righteousness, and other elements of Christianity as the armour of God, and this imagery is replicated by John Bunyan in ''The Pilgrim's Progress'', and by many other Christian writers. Related imagery appears in hymns such as "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" and "Onward, Christian Soldiers".Alison G. Sulloway, Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onward, Christian Soldiers
"Onward, Christian Soldiers" is a 19th-century English hymn. The words were written by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1865, and the music was composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1871. Sullivan named the tune "St Gertrude," after the wife of his friend Ernest Clay Ker Seymer, at whose country home he composed the tune.Sullivan, Marc"Discography of Sir Arthur Sullivan: Recordings of Hymns and Songs" 11 July 2010, accessed 9 September 2011 The Salvation Army adopted the hymn as its favoured processional. The piece became Sullivan's most popular hymn. The hymn's theme is taken from references in the New Testament to the Christian being a soldier for Christ, for example II Timothy 2:3 (KJV): "Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." Early history The lyric was written as a processional hymn for children walking from Horbury Bridge, where Baring-Gould was curate, to Horbury St Peter's Church near Wakefield, Yorkshire, at Whitsuntide in 1865. It was originally enti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
