sinlessness

Having given an account of the saving work of Jesus's crucifixion, the Pearl links Christ's sinlessness to the pleasure he takes in virgins like her.

As with the themes of sin and sinlessness, images of light and darkness in the New Testament contrast markedly with Virgil's claims about the light surrounding the 'nobile castello' of Inferno IV.

Perhaps the Catholic Church deserves such criticism, but one wonders at the sinlessness of other Christians.

'when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is' (7)) and backward towards our initial Edenic sinlessness.

"Adam made a choice, had that fall from sinlessness, so we have broken or wounded things in life," he said.

The principal propagator of this narrative (what Garry Wills termed "original sinlessness") is Senator John McCain.

The life we live is not now our ordinary life but the life of Christ: a life of sinlessness, of chastity, of simplicity, and every other virtue.

In any event, it is in no way clear that for Jesus to have had sex or begotten children would have been incompatible with either his sinlessness or his divine character.

But since Christ died for our sins, believers look forward to sinlessness beyond this life.

41) has called "original sinlessness," and into an Eden where individual enterprise and free markets could create the conditions of earthly paradise.

She was married and had borne children, but neither of these things compromised her ability to rule provided that she was identified with the purity and sinlessness of this doctrine.

In his 1987 biography of Reagan (Reagan's America, the top-seller of the Wills books), the affable president emerges as a sublime spinner of national myths, the embodiment of "original sinlessness" and happy endings.

The statements of leading Crusaders - including Rhoda Coffin's controversial mid-March declaration of her sinlessness - seem far less significant for their content than for their public reception, and thus give us a means by which to judge changes in community response to Crusade activism.

Wells's First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life (1908).(7) Like Blatchford he is an agnostic, but although Wells is personally unable to relate to the Christ figure ("His sinlessness wears his incarnation like a fancy dress, all his white self unchanged" [86]), his approach to Christianity is more emollient, and he is generally much more enthusiastic about the positive dimensions of religion.