As the ancient world placed truth in ideas and not in facts, no teaching could well have been more radically contrary to its modes of thought; and the doctrine once accepted, the spirit of proselytizing came with it.
Some of these influences are historical, as the repeated disappointments in the second coming of Christ, and the interest of proselytizing churches to interpret this event allegorically.
At a very early period a proselytizing spirit awoke among the disciples of the Indian reformer, an element entirely new in the history of ancient religions.
Syria to forbid Jewish proselytizing and Christian propaganda, but forbade that Christians should be sought out with the object of persecution.
Moreover, they were active in proselytizing and made many converts among the Greeks and other peoples with whom they came into contact.
What has been said will suggest another point of view in which the oriental rites were obnoxious to the government--namely, as being vagrant and proselytizing religions.
This character of a proselytizing faith which wins its victories by peaceful means has remained a prominent feature of Buddhism to the present day.
As is to be expected in the case of a religion with a strongproselytizing agency, the growth of Christianity is far more rapid than that of the general population.
Our proselytizing missionary enterprises are thus flatly contrary to his advice; and their results appear to bear him out in his view that if you convert a man brought up in another creed, you inevitably demoralize him.
The movement began to be formidable when it spread beyond Parma, even beyond Italy, being found in 1287 in Germany; and it appeared that Segarelli aimed at proselytizing the world.
Undoubtedly Roman Catholicism appears to be the form of Christianity most successful inproselytizing uncivilized races, which are impressed more through their eyes than their understanding.
Continuing in Borsodi's footsteps, the Nearings homesteaded in the thirties and began proselytizing for the self-sufficient life-style shortly thereafter.
Rodale began proselytizingfor the organic movement about 1942.
There is a large Roman Catholic church, the priests of which are said to have been somewhat successful in proselytizing operations.
More redoubtable than political discontent was the proselytizing activity of the leaders of the movement in Russia.
His knowledge of languages and his remarkable intelligence had probably attracted the notice of his superiors, who can have had no suspicion of his leanings, much less of his proselytizing activity.
Though he promised to the numerous Protestant parents, who entrusted their boys and girls to his care for their education, never to interfere with their religion, he was, nevertheless, incessantly proselytizing them.
I cannot enter into the details of their conversions, or rather perversions; suffice it to say, that I soon found that my only chance of success in that proselytizing work was among the Ritualists.
We have also before us the Twentieth Annual Report of the New York Juvenile Asylum, 1871, which proves the proselytizing character of this public-pap-fed unsectarian institution.
In the list of model examples presented in the report of the Western agent will be seen the usual proselytizing influence of such institutions.
This has long been a source of much chagrin to the various dissenting proselytizing societies in England and the United States, as it also seems to have been the cause of exasperation to our Minister at Peking, Mr. Frederick F.
Apart from the inhumanity of this procedure, from its unchristian character, from its proselytizing effects, we protest against it in the name of law, of right, and of human liberty.
The Church greatly feared that by proselytizing their slaves the Jews might increase their numbers.
Theme for discussion: Win did Judaism not succeed as a proselytizing religion?
There was little of the proselytizing spirit among the red race.
Displaying the same noble quality which in our own times characterises it, British Christianity did not fail to exert a proselytizing spirit.
The Polish nobility returned to the Catholic Church: in the Jesuit schools their sons were trained to proselytizing fanaticism, and from that time on the Polish State declined, conditions becoming worse and worse.
The attitude of the Germans in West Prussia was not uniform toward the proselytizing Jesuits and Slavic tyranny.
Rossetti’s proselytizing powers, and his inexhaustible enthusiasm (at least in youth) for dogmatic propaganda, were indeed a source of some embarrassment and many disappointments in the progress of artistic reform.
In their proselytizing activity they tried to assimilate to their pantheism the mythological religion of the masses, and thus they became the philosophical supporters of idolatry.
The more Arianism was driven out of Europe, and the more it gave way before the Catholic religion, the more the Jews were harassed by proselytizing zeal.
They merely refrained from proselytizing by means of threats of banishment or death, because they were convinced that in this manner the Church would be peopled with false Christians, who would curse it in their inmost hearts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proselytizing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
