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The name cell church comes from the Christian Church in China that ... In reality, many of the first Christian churches in the days of Saint ...

of the joint founders of the Baptist denomination. He was, with John Smyth ... of Methodism, John Wesley, but the denomination he and Smyth founded grew ...

well-established religious body, like a denomination, usually due to a dispute ... of their parent religion (generally a denomination). Their motivation tends ...

Ecclesiology, in Christian theology, is the study of doctrine pertaining ... sense of a particular church or denomination’s character, self-described ...

leadership of religious group. Within the Christian Church, the term takes ... In ancient Israel, the culture from which the roots of the Christian ...

The Baptist Church is a Christian denomination—or group of denominations—that rejects the traditional practice of infant baptism and holds ...

The honor of being the first woman to be ordained as a Christian minister ... Brown attended Oberlin College, which was a Christian school and the ...

leader of the YMCA and the World Student Christian Federation(WSCF). He received ... widely traveled and universally trusted Christian leader of his time" ...

deliberately unaffiliated with any Christian denomination, who believed that ... study groups independent of any Christian denomination, who believed that ...

James Davison Hunter, Andrew Greeley, and Christian Smith. ... Christian Smith has detailed the culture behind American evangelism ...

that the annual conference of the denomination kept assigning him to ... ===The Christian Mission=== In 1865, Booth and his wife Catherine opened ...

and God was soon heralded as the new denomination of Unitarianism. ... he deplored the idea of starting a new denomination, saying, "I desire ...

Vasco da Gama, seeking preexisting Christian nations in India, discovered ... Three main regional concentrations of Christian population exist, namely ...

:This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... usually associated with admission to a Christian church. Although the primary ...

mass, the Orthodox liturgy and other Christian services including the ... attribute the term to Western and Judeo-Christian traditions, music accompanying ...

Christian churches, particularly within the Orthodox and Roman Catholic ... each operated by a different Christian denomination, each believing their ...

The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS), is a Christian denomination that ...

After the Protestant Reformation, some Christian denominations returned ... million believers, is the largest Christian denomination to observe a Saturday ...

support broadly rather than from one denomination. Prior to 1818, the Serampore ... College for the instruction of Asiatic Christian and other Youth in Eastern ...

a methodical approach to scriptures and Christian living. The term “Methodist” ... Methodism follows the traditional and near-universal Christian belief ...

texts of wisdom found in Gnostic and Christian sects. Over time, the term ... by a variety of influences in the Christian church. All claims to the ...

The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The ... attitude toward salvation than some other Christian works, especially the letters ...

In the Christian tradition, some of the arguments between Jesus and ... with every moment of one's life. The Christian version of this commandment ...

with Thomas Helwys of the modern Baptist denomination, Ordained as an Anglican Priest, he soon identified with the Separatists who opposed State control ...

missionaries wanted to persuade to become Christian represented a respect for ... Ryland and committed himself to the Baptist denomination. ...

The largest Pentecostal denomination in existence today is the Assemblies ... in the Book of Acts, is necessary for Christian growth and empowerment ...

adopted in the early centuries of the Christian era for the Sacrament of ... Eucharist has long been at the center of Christian worship. In general, the ...

A deacon is a Christian church office generally associated with service ... laity, and its exact functions vary by denomination. Some denominations do ...

a school in which 40 Jewish and 20 Christian children were to be educated ... in Seesen an orphan asylum for Jewish and Christian boys. ...

In 1827, when the Quaker denomination divided over doctrinal differences, Mott and her husband became supporters of Elias Hicks, who founded ...

countries more than one religion or denomination has such standing. There ... The degree and nature of state backing for a denomination or creed ...

from rationalist skepticism to fervent Christian faith, and applied his ... New York City and Boston. By now wealthy Christian laymen were in his support ...

Helmut Richard Niebuhr (1894 – 1962) was an American Christian ethicist ... Hulda was for many years a professor of Christian education at McCormick ...

especially and primarily within the Christian faith. The "Ecumenical ... of Roman Emperors to clarify matters of Christian theology and doctrine. ...

==Precursors to Christian sacraments== and celebration. In the subsequent Christian celebration of the Eucharist ...

In ecclesiology, the Christian Church is what different Christian ... does not refer to a particular Christian denomination, but includes all ...

Protestantism encompasses forms of Christian faith and practice that ... exist within each group, and not every denomination fits neatly into these ...

of Discipleship have become classics of Christian literature, criticizing ... The theological and political reasons behind his shift from Christian ...

charged with heresy by opponents in the denomination, a case settled when Fosdick ... Allee" in 1959 in the presence of Christian Herter, Dulles' successor ...

{{Infobox Christian denomination |name = The Salvation Army ... The Salvation Army is a Christian church and international charitable ...

Reform Judaism today is the largest U.S. Jewish denomination. It does ... Judaism as the most popular Jewish denomination. Many Reform congregations ...

psalms and paraphrases, supplemented by Christian music. The typical service ... both believing adults and the children of Christian families. Communion in ...

"Ivy League" appeared in the Christian Science Monitor on February ... with, and promotion by, a religious denomination. All of the schools in ...

Christianity of the New Testament. The Christian Church, Disciples of Christ ... of Primitive Methodism as a denomination in 1811, a series of 17 ...

is the largest and most well-known denomination within the Latter Day ... him not to affiliate himself with any denomination.Pearl of Great Price, ...

were thus brought more securely into the Christian fold. ... Holy Week and the season of Lent, depending on denomination and local ...

following soon after the first Protestant Christian missionary in Korea, Presbyterian ... denominations in Korea. By 2000, the denomination had more than five thousand ...

blanket statement to circumscribe all non-Christian (or, more broadly, non ... figuring as the sixth largest non-Christian denomination in the U.S., after ...

The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named ... have won international distinction among Christian denominations in disaster ...

for a long period of time. The British Christian missionaries that spent ... census of 2001 recorded the state's Christian population at 1,988,349 ...

is similar to some interpretations of the Christian Trinity such as Sabellianism ... This Trimurti concept is a tenet most strongly held in Hindu denomination ...

a movie script and became a classic Christian testimony of the struggle ... His mother, a member of a pacifist Christian denomination, tried to convince ...

in the person of Voltaire took an anti-Christian stance, opposing the "religion ... he delineated the progression of Christian doctrine through history ...

observed by the Danish philologist Rasmus Christian Rask. Grimm's law ... Deutsche Mark note--the largest available denomination. ...

the Latin name for England) describes the Christian denominations that follow ... become much more mainstream within the denomination over the last century ...

a Jew. (This contrasts with the Christian view that without adhering ... religious freedom. Today, no major Christian denomination calls for legal sanctions ...

thin gold coins bearing the image of the Christian cross and various Byzantine ... of coin currency. Tokens may have a denomination shown or implied either ...

interpreted Bible as fundamental to Christian life and teaching. The ... and they did not form an independent denomination. However, they have since ...

Most Spiritualists were content to attend Christian churches. Unitarian and ... the appeal of religious movements such as Christian Science. It was at this ...

tradition by joining the more liberal denomination of Unitarianism. However ... transience, is noted for being "un-Christian-like" for its time. ...

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Christian denomination that is best known for its teaching that Saturday, rather than Sunday, is the Sabbath ...

the population practice Christianity or Christian beliefs blended with traditional ... The largest Christian denomination is Methodist. Foreign missionary ...

as the ancestor of the Arabs. In Christian tradition, Abraham is described ... have been a Muslim, 'not a Jew nor a Christian' (Surah 3:67). The ...

the patronage of the propagation of the Christian faith in Asia to the Portuguese ... as a threat to the immaculateness of the Christian belief, Saint Francis Xavier ...

changes such as a comprehensively revised Christian Liturgy, a Church renewal ... Protestant organizations honored him as a Christian reformer. Both Anglican ...

The Government of Indonesia officially recognizes the two main Christian ... entire villages belong to a distinct denomination, such as Seventh Day Adventist ...

The Shakers are a Christian sect, an offshoot of the Religious Society ... but refused to recognize it as a Christian institution since the second ...

it as a modern innovation derived from Christian categories. Many Orthodox ... time. However, understood as a major denomination within modern religion ...

the Tanakh (and Christian Old Testament), which celebrates and interprets ... tendency became especially common among Christian commentators (many of whom ...

must not be a man of the "true Christian ethic," understood by Weber as being the ethic of the Sermon on the Mount, that is to say ...

Anglicanism is the largest Protestant denomination with Presbyterians and Seventh Day Adventists making up the remainder. Most churches have ...

wing of Congregationalism into a separate denomination. ... Cambridge, published an article in The Christian Examiner, entitled "Coleridge ...

original French settlement. The predominant Christian denomination in the Ozarks is the Baptist denomination. ==Notes== ==References== ...

A cathedral is an impressive Christian church that traditionally contained ... A cathedral, in common with other Christian churches has an altar ...

French: Ordre des Hospitaliers) was a Christian organization that began ... in Jerusalem to treat and care for Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land ...

Jay combined such elements with a Christian aesthetic vision glorifying ... Jay was active in various works of Christian philanthropy. Motivated ...

such as the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament, which were ... fully scriptural in any major Christian denomination, are regarded with ...

Karaites, Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish denomination characterized ... (trans.). A History of the Jews in Christian Spain: From the Age of ...

written on each. While most Jewish and Christian depictions follow the first ... (Matthew 22:34-40). Nevertheless, various Christian understandings of the Ten ...

*Secular Judaism. Though not a formal denomination, secular Judaism ... of the winter holiday season marked in Christian tradition by Christmas. ...

Jerusalem, not Rome, that served as the Christian movement's central ... which is not only the largest Christian denomination, but the largest ...

that he may have personally preached the Christian gospel to more people than ... it is undeniable that his particular approach to Christian theology ...

by the Church of Uganda—a local Anglican denomination. The religion with the second-highest following is Islam. While Muslims in Uganda appear ...

the same class, nor comprised under the same denomination. ... of the principles and effects of the Christian religion) published in ...

such as the archaeological areas, the Christian Basilicas, and the masterpieces ... Rome is the center of the Roman Catholic denomination of Christianity ...

1688 – March 29, 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian ... philosophers of the time John Locke, Christian von Wolff and Leibniz, ...

Fiji's first modern town with Christian missionaries from Tahiti ... Hindu or Muslim. The largest Christian denomination is the Methodist ...

The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical ... There are 39 books common to essentially all Christian canons. They ...

by the Spirit of Evangelical Christian Religion" but "without giving preference to any sect or denomination."[http://www.smith ...

*Other Christian—3 percent *Roman Catholic—9 percent ... The A.U.M.P. Church, the oldest African-American denomination in the ...

gilgul resembles reincarnation. The Christian thinker Geddes MacGregor ... lives. Such relationships, according to Christian theologian John Hick, may ...

was founded in England in the seventeenth century as a Christian religious ... faith does not fit within traditional Christian categories of Roman Catholic ...

The Jehovah’s Witnesses are an international religious organization, a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian ...

During the colonial era, Christian missionaries were active in Mozambique, and many foreign clergy remain in the country. According to the national ...

Catholic faith or belong to another Christian denomination, animistic beliefs persist, including a respect for ancestral spirits, or taotaomo'na ...

In terms of religion, the people are predominantly Christian, and ... to watch are Janill Williams, Brendan Christian (100 m, 200 m), Daniel ...

regarded as an undercaste by upper caste Christian clergy and nuns and are ... as well as divisions by religious denomination such as Ahmadiyya, Mojahir ...

in Macao in 1807. Protestant and Catholic Christian missionaries played an ... to be involved with officially sanctioned Christian meetings through the "China ...

*Christian--87.5 percent **Roman Catholic--63.6 percent ... ***Protestant, no denomination--7 percent **Other Christian--2.3 percent ...

requiring members to profess Trinitarian Christian beliefs) or membership ... (mainly Roman Catholic and evangelical Christian) or political in nature ...

Catholic faith, or belong to another Christian denomination, animistic beliefs persist, including a respect for ancestral spirits, or “taotaomo'na ...

as contemporary society has eroded Christian values in an effort to ... 2008. Yet it has reached out beyond the denomination to provide a nonsectarian ...

Roman Catholic Church is the predominant denomination. About 92 percent of the population over age 15 is literate, and the literacy rate of school ...

Haakon the Good was Norway's first Christian king. Norse traditions ... and elected the Danish crown prince Christian Fredrik as king on May ...

In the twelfth century, Gaza was taken by Christian Crusaders, and it returned ... Canaan being its earliest known denomination. Some of the Canaanites ...

) are a Christian group of Russian origin. The Doukhobors were one ... They formed an organization known as Christian Community of Universal ...

set forward in the Bible are central to Christian beliefs. Some denominations ... In Christian Science, Truth is God. [http://m-w.com/dictionary/truth ...

Catholicism is the largest single religious denomination in the Midwest ... *Sisson, Richard, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton (eds.). The ...

In modern Korea, the largest Buddhist denomination is the Jogye Order, a ... was a central figure in the development of dialogue between Christian ...

world. The islands are 80 percent Protestant Christian. Baptists form the largest denomination with approximately one-third of the population, followed ...

) are an Anabaptist Christian denomination in the United States and ... consider each other members of the same Christian church. Groups in fellowship ...

that "if a person brought up a Christian denies the being of a God ... most of his biographers agree he was a Christian deist, a common position ...

assumed leadership of a new Holy (Christian) Roman Empire. Sometimes ... The promise of a unified Christian Europe was short-lived, however ...

of the prominent organizations—Southern Christian Leadership Conference and ... civil rights organizations—Southern Christian Leadership Conference and ...

to control the Swedish nobility. King Christian II of Denmark, who asserted ... right to stand outside any religious denomination was established in the ...

of influence in both the Muslim and Christian worlds and it attracted ... and ethnic tolerance in comparison to Christian countries, they formed ...

The West Bank also has sites of importance to the Christian religion ... known as Palestine/Israel, Canaan being its earliest known denomination ...

Tewahedo Church is by far the largest denomination, though a number of Protestant ... Christianity was severed from the Christian world. This led to many ...

#039;s movement to reform the whole Christian community. ... book to be copyrighted?," European Christian Bookstore Journal, April 1992 ...

area of 100 m² or over, leading to the denomination "the land of a thousand ... The official holidays can be divided into Christian and secular holidays; some ...

aid NGOs have an affiliation with a religious denomination. ... UN aid debate: Give cash not food?] The Christian Science Monitor, June 4 ...

century. These are some of the first established Christian churches in the world. At first, Christian Orthodoxy made gains in modern-day Sudan and other ...

of Smith's 1838 account, which the denomination has canonized in its scripture ... New York. This was a period where Christian churches in the region ...

(primarily the Coptic Orthodox denomination). Apart from religious ... itself came under the influence of Greek, Christian, and Islamic culture. Today ...

even though they identify with other Christian denominations or with none ... into a major and significant Protestant denomination whose missionaries spread ...

descent) make up the largest single Christian denomination. Minnesota has a long history with non-Christian faiths. Ashkenazi Jewish ...

Ruth (1929–1983), became a well-known Christian evangelist. ... "If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough ...

it is now the single largest denomination in the state. There is ... * Christian, 81 percent ** Protestant, 54 percent *** Baptist, 19 percent ...

The largest religious groupings in London are Christian (57.8 percent ... is very low within the Anglican denomination, although church attendance ...

Membership in Christian churches is also high, with every denomination represented. The resurgence of Christian practice is reflected in the ...

arrived from New England were for the most part Christian Protestants, Quakers, and Universalists. The oldest continuously used church in the city, Our ...

The majority of British citizens identify themselves as Christian ... often resulted in the formation of new Christian churches such as the Methodists ...

of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Christian restorationist movement ... the second largest Latter-day Saint denomination with about 250,000 members ...

finally forced South African General Jan Christian Smuts to negotiate a compromise ... he replied: "Yes I am. I am also a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist and ...

in the Indian consciousness that even Christian converts have been known ... was able to incorporate ahimsa into his Christian worldview, and used non ...

of Breda in 1625. The intervention of Christian IV of Denmark in the war ... the Catholic Church as the leading Christian denomination in Europe when it ...

Ottomans ruled through local knezes, or Christian “headmen,” who might ... and to learn to read and write. Some Christian boys between the ages of ...

and in Persia wrote odes to the beautiful Christian wine boys who, they claimed ... Moberly, Homosexuality: A New Christian Ethic (Greenwood, SC: James ...

Barbarossa was the ideal of the medieval Christian king. Regarding himself ... million people officially belong to a Christian denomination. ...

the Byzantine emperor Justinian I as the Christian cathedral of Constantinople ... It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian ...

of 87%, making it the largest Christian denomination, though it has been decreasing over the last decades. [http://cuentame.inegi.org.mx/monografias/in ...