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  • All your phrases, even the expression 'god-bearing people' is only a sequel to our talk two years ago, abroad, not long before you went to America. ...

    The Possessed 2003

  • Juggernaut's a perfect word for Christmas: a massive, inexorable god-bearing cart under whose wheels devotees hurl themselves, and are crushed.

    Philocrites: December 2003 Archives 2003

  • Juggernaut’s a perfect word for Christmas: a massive, inexorable god-bearing cart under whose wheels devotees hurl themselves, and are crushed.

    Philocrites: 'Tis the season. 2003

  • Greek contains a number of theophorous ([Greek: theophoros], god-bearing) names formed from those of Egyptian or Phrygian gods, like Serapion, Metrodoros, Metrophilos -- Isidore is in use at the present day -- but all known derivations of Mithra are of barbarian formation.

    The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

  • Only the Russian nation is "god-bearing"; in such a land alone may one say, "an atheist can't be a Russian."

    Dostoievsky's Mystical Terror 1918

  • xiii“‘the only god-bearing people on earth’”: Quoted in W. R. Ward, “Response,” in William R. Hutchison and Hartmut Lehmann, eds., Many Are Chosen: Divine Election and Western Nationalism Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994, Harvard Theological Studies 38, p.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • xiii“‘the only god-bearing people on earth’”: Quoted in W. R. Ward, “Response,” in William R. Hutchison and Hartmut Lehmann, eds., Many Are Chosen: Divine Election and Western Nationalism Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994, Harvard Theological Studies 38, p.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • xiii“‘the only god-bearing people on earth’”: Quoted in W. R. Ward, “Response,” in William R. Hutchison and Hartmut Lehmann, eds., Many Are Chosen: Divine Election and Western Nationalism Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994, Harvard Theological Studies 38, p.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • Dostoyevsky found signs of God’s favor among the long-suffering Russians, who were, as one of his characters proclaims in The Possessed, “the only god-bearing people on earth, destined to regenerate and save the world.”

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • Dostoyevsky found signs of God’s favor among the long-suffering Russians, who were, as one of his characters proclaims in The Possessed, “the only god-bearing people on earth, destined to regenerate and save the world.”

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

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