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An early example of the miles christianus allegory in a manuscript of the Summa Vitiorum by William Peraldus, mid 13th century.The knight is equipped with a detailed Armour of God, including an early depiction of the Shield of the Trinity, and he is crowned by an angel holding the gloss non coronabuntur nisi qui legitime certaverint "none will be crowned but those who truly struggle" and in ...
"Soldiers of Christ, Arise" is an 18th-century English hymn. The words were written by Charles Wesley (1707–1788), [ 1 ] and the first line ("Soldiers of Christ, arise, and put your armour on") refers to the armour of God in Ephesians 6:10–18.
William Saunders Crowdy (August 11, 1847 – August 4, 1908) was an American soldier, preacher, entrepreneur and pastor. He was also one of the earliest known Black Hebrew Israelites in the United States, he established the Church of God and Saints of Christ in 1896 after he claimed to have had visions telling him "That blacks were descendants of the twelve lost tribes of Israel".
114. O God, on Thee We All Depend; 115. Ye Sons of Men, a Feeble Race; 116. Dismiss Your Anxious Care; 117. When God's Own People Stand in Need; 118. When All Thy Mercies, O My God; 119. How Pleasant, How Divinely Fair; 120. Sweet Is the Work, My God, My King; 121. Not to the Terrors of the Lord; 122. Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove; 123. How ...
In the first centuries after the time of Jesus, some soldiers decided to follow Christianity, but few Christians decided to join the military voluntarily. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the second century, Celsus accused Christians of shirking their civic duty by refusing to serve in the army; Origen , a Christian scholar, agreed with this accusation, but ...
"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.
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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