Search results for "Christian denomination" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...10 KB (1,587 words) - 23:45, 3 December 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 21:16, 30 April 2023
- well-established religious body, like a denomination, usually due to a dispute ... of their parent religion (generally a denomination). Their motivation tends ...9 KB (1,258 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- Ecclesiology, in Christian theology, is the study of doctrine pertaining ... sense of a particular church or denomination’s character, self-described ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 11:58, 7 May 2024
- leadership of religious group. Within the Christian Church, the term takes ... In ancient Israel, the culture from which the roots of the Christian ...19 KB (2,961 words) - 11:04, 2 February 2024
- The Baptist Church is a Christian denomination—or group of denominations—that rejects the traditional practice of infant baptism and holds ...25 KB (3,609 words) - 07:57, 20 September 2023
- 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 ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 06:47, 31 July 2023
- leader of the YMCA and the World Student Christian Federation(WSCF). He received ... widely traveled and universally trusted Christian leader of his time" ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 03:51, 3 May 2024
- deliberately unaffiliated with any Christian denomination, who believed that ... study groups independent of any Christian denomination, who believed that ...16 KB (2,459 words) - 02:49, 5 October 2022
- James Davison Hunter, Andrew Greeley, and Christian Smith. ... Christian Smith has detailed the culture behind American evangelism ...35 KB (5,329 words) - 21:52, 30 January 2023
- that the annual conference of the denomination kept assigning him to ... ===The Christian Mission=== In 1865, Booth and his wife Catherine opened ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 15:41, 6 May 2023
- and God was soon heralded as the new denomination of Unitarianism. ... he deplored the idea of starting a new denomination, saying, "I desire ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 15:59, 7 May 2023
- Vasco da Gama, seeking preexisting Christian nations in India, discovered ... Three main regional concentrations of Christian population exist, namely ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- :This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... usually associated with admission to a Christian church. Although the primary ...24 KB (3,694 words) - 07:45, 20 September 2023
- mass, the Orthodox liturgy and other Christian services including the ... attribute the term to Western and Judeo-Christian traditions, music accompanying ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- Christian churches, particularly within the Orthodox and Roman Catholic ... each operated by a different Christian denomination, each believing their ...12 KB (2,039 words) - 05:11, 31 July 2023
- The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS), is a Christian denomination that ...34 KB (5,277 words) - 00:19, 8 January 2024
- After the Protestant Reformation, some Christian denominations returned ... million believers, is the largest Christian denomination to observe a Saturday ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- support broadly rather than from one denomination. Prior to 1818, the Serampore ... College for the instruction of Asiatic Christian and other Youth in Eastern ...14 KB (1,875 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- a methodical approach to scriptures and Christian living. The term “Methodist” ... Methodism follows the traditional and near-universal Christian belief ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- 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 ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The ... attitude toward salvation than some other Christian works, especially the letters ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- In the Christian tradition, some of the arguments between Jesus and ... with every moment of one's life. The Christian version of this commandment ...19 KB (2,783 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- with Thomas Helwys of the modern Baptist denomination, Ordained as an Anglican Priest, he soon identified with the Separatists who opposed State control ...8 KB (1,224 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- missionaries wanted to persuade to become Christian represented a respect for ... Ryland and committed himself to the Baptist denomination. ...25 KB (3,845 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2023
- The largest Pentecostal denomination in existence today is the Assemblies ... in the Book of Acts, is necessary for Christian growth and empowerment ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 07:23, 23 November 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 04:40, 22 March 2024
- A deacon is a Christian church office generally associated with service ... laity, and its exact functions vary by denomination. Some denominations do ...20 KB (3,190 words) - 19:56, 22 May 2020
- a school in which 40 Jewish and 20 Christian children were to be educated ... in Seesen an orphan asylum for Jewish and Christian boys. ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 06:05, 11 March 2024
- In 1827, when the Quaker denomination divided over doctrinal differences, Mott and her husband became supporters of Elias Hicks, who founded ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:27, 5 November 2022
- countries more than one religion or denomination has such standing. There ... The degree and nature of state backing for a denomination or creed ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- from rationalist skepticism to fervent Christian faith, and applied his ... New York City and Boston. By now wealthy Christian laymen were in his support ...24 KB (3,726 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- Helmut Richard Niebuhr (1894 – 1962) was an American Christian ethicist ... Hulda was for many years a professor of Christian education at McCormick ...24 KB (3,589 words) - 18:47, 29 July 2023
- especially and primarily within the Christian faith. The "Ecumenical ... of Roman Emperors to clarify matters of Christian theology and doctrine. ...23 KB (3,375 words) - 18:04, 12 February 2024
- ==Precursors to Christian sacraments== and celebration. In the subsequent Christian celebration of the Eucharist ...20 KB (3,310 words) - 20:37, 17 April 2023
- In ecclesiology, the Christian Church is what different Christian ... does not refer to a particular Christian denomination, but includes all ...73 KB (10,603 words) - 12:23, 7 May 2024
- Protestantism encompasses forms of Christian faith and practice that ... exist within each group, and not every denomination fits neatly into these ...23 KB (3,274 words) - 08:17, 2 December 2022
- of Discipleship have become classics of Christian literature, criticizing ... The theological and political reasons behind his shift from Christian ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 14:34, 29 January 2024
- charged with heresy by opponents in the denomination, a case settled when Fosdick ... Allee" in 1959 in the presence of Christian Herter, Dulles' successor ...14 KB (1,941 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- {{Infobox Christian denomination |name = The Salvation Army ... The Salvation Army is a Christian church and international charitable ...30 KB (4,473 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- Reform Judaism today is the largest U.S. Jewish denomination. It does ... Judaism as the most popular Jewish denomination. Many Reform congregations ...19 KB (2,867 words) - 03:01, 8 December 2022
- psalms and paraphrases, supplemented by Christian music. The typical service ... both believing adults and the children of Christian families. Communion in ...20 KB (2,987 words) - 22:00, 10 December 2023
- "Ivy League" appeared in the Christian Science Monitor on February ... with, and promotion by, a religious denomination. All of the schools in ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
- Christianity of the New Testament. The Christian Church, Disciples of Christ ... of Primitive Methodism as a denomination in 1811, a series of 17 ...15 KB (2,238 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- is the largest and most well-known denomination within the Latter Day ... him not to affiliate himself with any denomination.Pearl of Great Price, ...28 KB (4,522 words) - 21:59, 10 December 2023
- were thus brought more securely into the Christian fold. ... Holy Week and the season of Lent, depending on denomination and local ...19 KB (2,974 words) - 20:02, 25 October 2022
- following soon after the first Protestant Christian missionary in Korea, Presbyterian ... denominations in Korea. By 2000, the denomination had more than five thousand ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 13:51, 8 February 2022
- blanket statement to circumscribe all non-Christian (or, more broadly, non ... figuring as the sixth largest non-Christian denomination in the U.S., after ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named ... have won international distinction among Christian denominations in disaster ...44 KB (6,423 words) - 10:32, 10 March 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,820 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
