Search results for "Christian denomination" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- is similar to some interpretations of the Christian Trinity such as Sabellianism ... This Trimurti concept is a tenet most strongly held in Hindu denomination ...22 KB (3,588 words) - 17:21, 2 May 2023
- a movie script and became a classic Christian testimony of the struggle ... His mother, a member of a pacifist Christian denomination, tried to convince ...23 KB (3,581 words) - 02:36, 24 July 2023
- in the person of Voltaire took an anti-Christian stance, opposing the "religion ... he delineated the progression of Christian doctrine through history ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 09:13, 28 January 2024
- observed by the Danish philologist Rasmus Christian Rask. Grimm's law ... Deutsche Mark note--the largest available denomination. ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 04:36, 22 November 2023
- the Latin name for England) describes the Christian denominations that follow ... become much more mainstream within the denomination over the last century ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- a Jew. (This contrasts with the Christian view that without adhering ... religious freedom. Today, no major Christian denomination calls for legal sanctions ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- 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 ...23 KB (3,753 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
- interpreted Bible as fundamental to Christian life and teaching. The ... and they did not form an independent denomination. However, they have since ...27 KB (4,004 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- Most Spiritualists were content to attend Christian churches. Unitarian and ... the appeal of religious movements such as Christian Science. It was at this ...26 KB (3,720 words) - 15:24, 27 April 2023
- tradition by joining the more liberal denomination of Unitarianism. However ... transience, is noted for being "un-Christian-like" for its time. ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Christian denomination that is best known for its teaching that Saturday, rather than Sunday, is the Sabbath ...48 KB (7,327 words) - 10:10, 26 January 2023
- the population practice Christianity or Christian beliefs blended with traditional ... The largest Christian denomination is Methodist. Foreign missionary ...23 KB (3,221 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- 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 ...30 KB (4,716 words) - 23:04, 8 April 2021
- 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 ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- changes such as a comprehensively revised Christian Liturgy, a Church renewal ... Protestant organizations honored him as a Christian reformer. Both Anglican ...21 KB (3,268 words) - 04:45, 3 May 2024
- The Government of Indonesia officially recognizes the two main Christian ... entire villages belong to a distinct denomination, such as Seventh Day Adventist ...26 KB (3,688 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- The Shakers are a Christian sect, an offshoot of the Religious Society ... but refused to recognize it as a Christian institution since the second ...23 KB (3,664 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
- it as a modern innovation derived from Christian categories. Many Orthodox ... time. However, understood as a major denomination within modern religion ...17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
- the Tanakh (and Christian Old Testament), which celebrates and interprets ... tendency became especially common among Christian commentators (many of whom ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 01:14, 4 February 2023
- 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 ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
