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| | Christian Identity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Christian Identity believers reject the beliefs of most modern orthodox Christian denominations, and claim that modern Christian Churches are teaching a heresy: the belief that God's promises to Israel (through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) have been expanded to create a spiritual people of "Israel," which consitutes the Christian "Church". | | | Christian Identity adherents believe that God will use what they believe is the Chosen Race as his weapons to battle the forces of evil. | | | Christian Identity believes in the inevitability of the end of the world and the Second Coming of Christ. |
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| | Arab Christians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Arab Christians are people who are ethnically Arab or culturally and linguistically arabized and who follow the religion of Christianity. | | | The majority of Christian Arabs live in the Middle East where, although Islam is undoubtedly the preponderant religion, significant religious minorities exist in a number of countries. | | | The use of the term Allah in Arab Christian churches predates its use in Islam by several centuries. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Christian movements |
| | Christian movements are theological, political, or philosophical intepretations of Christianity that are not generally represented by a specific church, sect, or denomination. | | | The Holy Spirit Within Christianity, the doctrine of the Trinity states that God is a single Being who exists, simultaneously and eternally, as a communion of three persons (personae, prosopa): Father (the Source, the Eternal Majesty); the Son (the eternal Logos or Word, incarnate as Jesus of Nazareth); and the Holy Spirit. | | | In Christian theology, One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church is a phrase describing the nature of the Christian community and/or Christian Church, in the various meanings it has. |
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| | Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Christianity is a monotheistic religion centered on the life, teachings, and actions of Jesus of Nazareth, known by Christians as Jesus Christ, as recounted in the New Testament. | | | Christianity is considered an Abrahamic religion, along with Judaism and Islam. | | | Christians believe that Jesus is both fully God (divine) and fully human. |
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| | BIGpedia - Christianity - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | Crucial beliefs in Christian teaching are Jesus' incarnation, atonement, crucifixion, and resurrection from the dead to redeem humankind from sin and death; and the belief that the New Testament is a part of the Bible. | | | Most Christians believe that Jesus is the son of God and the Messiah of the Jews as prophesied in the Old Testament (or Hebrew Bible). | | | Christianity is an Abrahamic religion based on the life, teachings, death by crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth as described in the New Testament. |
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Judeo-Christian tradition - Encyclopedia Article |
| | Then again there are Christians that see the Christian religion as a revolt, rather than descendant from Judaism and disdain the Old Testament while fully embracing the New Testament. | | | Generally speaking, most Protestant Christians still believe that Jews must ultimately accept that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah and the incarnation of God, and that Jesus is the only correct way to have a relationship with God in order to reach heaven. | | | However, many Christians are anxious to point out that their religion ultimately sprang from Judaism, and some of these wish to reclaim their roots in the Biblical, pre-Christian practice of Judaism. |
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| | Christian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Other denominations (The Church of Christ, International Churches of Christ, and the Independent Christian Churches) teach that the definition of a Christian is someone who has been baptized as a repenting adult “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”– (Matthew 28:19). | | | The universal church traditions generally espouse that the Church includes all who are baptized into her common faith, including the doctrines of the trinity, forgiveness of sins through the sacrificial action of Christ, and the resurrection of the body. | | | Church is taken by some to refer to a single, universal community, although others contend that the doctrine of the universal church was not established until later. |
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| | Judeo-Christian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Abrahamic religions — an umbrella term used to refer to the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as well as smaller, related religions such as Baha'i Faith and Samaritans. | | | One of the most significant early Christian preachers, Paul of Tarsus, himself a Jew and a Roman citizen, made a point of preaching to the gentiles of the Roman Empire, contributing to the religion's spread. | | | Christianity dropped some fundamental Jewish practices, among them the Jewish covenant on male circumcision, keeping of Sabbath, and the keeping of kashrut (in general, only general ethics of the Written Torah of Judaism transferred into Christianity; most of the Law and traditions of the Oral Torah did not). |
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| | Christian Science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Christian Science is a teaching regarding the efficacy of spiritual healing according to the interpretation of the Bible by Mary Baker Eddy, in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. | | | Adherents of Christian Science cite the Bible (Mark 16: 17-18) as an indication that belief in God should be demonstrated in healing. | | | Christian Science was elaborated by a female thinker--Mary Baker Eddy--who rejected the "coldness" of traditional philosophy and emphasized the importance of love (in the sense of agape) as well as abstract thought, and indeed the desirability of the integration of the two. |
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| | Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Christianity is a monotheistic religion centered on the life, teachings, and actions of Jesus of Nazareth, known by Christians as Jesus Christ, as recounted in the New Testament. | | | Christianity is considered an Abrahamic religion, along with Judaism and Islam. | | | Western Christianity in the Middle Ages was characterized by cooperation and conflict between the secular rulers and the Church under the Pope, and by the development of scholastic theology and philosophy. |
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| | Christian view of marriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Christian marriage is seen by Saint Paul (especially Ephesians chapter 5) as paralleling the relationship between Christ and the Church, a theological view which is a development of the Old Testament view that saw a parallel between marriage and the relationship between God and Israel. | | | The wife's submission is seen in the context of Paul's injunction (in Ephesians 5:21) for all Christians to submit to one another. | | | In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("LDS Church"; see also Mormon), "Eternal Marriage" is a sacred covenant between a man, a woman and God performed by a priesthood authority in the temples of the Church. |
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| | Christian materialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | According to the Christian Existential Humanism: "Christian Materialism quietly emerged from the earlier 'fundamentalist' movement in the late twentieth century, in a bold takeover that went largely unnoticed outside the religious community. | | | And being a Christian means going to church, taking part in sacred ceremonies, being taken up with ecclesiastical matters, in a kind of segregated world, which is considered to be the ante-chamber of heaven, while the ordinary world follows its own separate path." | | | Escriva criticized those who "have tried to present the Christian way of life as something exclusively spiritual, proper to pure, extraordinary people, who remain aloof from the contemptible things of this world, or at most tolerate them as something necessarily attached to the spirit, while we live on this earth. |
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| | Theosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Theosophy is a body of belief which holds that all religions are attempts by man to ascertain "the Divine", and as such each religion has a portion of the truth. | | | Adherents of Theosophy maintain that it is a "body of truth" that forms the basis of all religions. | | | Theosophy is similar to the beliefs of the Hindu Arya Samaj sect concerning Karma, Dharma, and Cosmogony. |
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| | Not all Christian sects believe in existence apart from the body, which they regard to be a purely extra-biblical notion borrowed from the non-Christian philosophies and religions. | | | From a Christian point of view, this aforementioned proposed denial of the possibility of afterlife may be interpreted in a different manner: One might see it as a distinction between the "dead" and the "resurrected dead", rather than a denial of the afterlife. | | | Some Christian groups or sects teach that death and suffering caused by disease are in principle eliminated, and place the blame for their continuation in the human community on lack of faith or unbiblical diet or health practices. |
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| | Christian symbolism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Christian symbolism is the use of actions or objects to represent the truths of the Christian faith, either as a reminder of those truths or as a way of spiritually connecting with the underlying truth or act. | | | The most important symbols in the Christian church are the sacraments. | | | To focus on one stream of the development of this late Christian symbol, the Christmas tree symbolizes, in part, the promised "Branch", the Messiah, who must be the "Root of Jesse", the descendant prefigured by Jesse's royal son, David. |
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| | Christian denomination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Since Christianity is the largest religion in the world (making approximately one-third of the population), it is necessary to understand the various faith traditions in terms of commonalities and differences between tradition, theology, church government, doctrine, language, and so on. | | | In addition, Christianity has partly inspired other religions, like early Islam and later Bahá'í, whose adherents do not consider themselves Christians but do consider Jesus to be a prophet and the Messiah (Anointed one) promised in the Old Testament, and, in the case of Bahá'í, the Son of God. | | | Christian anarchists believe that the original teachings of Jesus were corrupted by Judaism and Roman Statism, and that earthly authority such as government, or indeed the established church, do not and should not have power over them. |
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| | The Easter Page -- Traditions, History, and Dates of Easter |
| | To save lives, the missionaries cleverly decided to spread their religious message slowly throughout the populations by allowing them to continue to celebrate pagan feasts, but to do so in a Christian manner. | | | As with almost all "Christian" holidays, Easter has been secularized and commercialized. | | | When the second-century Christian missionaries encountered the tribes of the north with their pagan celebrations, they attempted to convert them to Christianity. |
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| | Demonology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In Christian tradition, demons are fallen angels, so demonology could be considered a branch of angelology. | | | The most extensive exposition of Christian demonology are Heinrich Kramer's Malleus Maleficarum—once thought to have been co-written by Jacob Sprenger— and Nicholas Remy's Demonolatry, both assuming the reality of witchcraft and its capability of posing a threat to the Roman Catholic church. | | | In Hellenistic Demonology, or Tartaric Demonology, some consider any attempt to seek boons from the gods and supernatural entities bound to the realm of Tartarus, or the Tartarian Abode, to be demonology. |
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| | Christian philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As with any fusion of religion and philosophy, the attempt is difficult because classical philosophers start with no preconditions for which conclusions they must reach in their investigation, while classical religious believers have a set of religious principles of faith that they hold one must believe. | | | Jesus: The life and teachings of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels form the basis of Christianity. | | | The problem of philosophy arises for them as something other than a task given by God in Christ to humanity, and so theirs is the problem of reconciling their activity as a deontological imperative insofar as they deny that philosophy is inherent in the creational ensemble as one task-activity among the many given by God. |
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| | Meditation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Some types of Christian prayer, such as the rosary, Adoration (focusing on the eucharist) in Catholicism or the hesychasm in Eastern Orthodoxy, may be compared to the form of Eastern meditation that focuses on an individual object, but these comparisons often overlook the importance of prayer in these rituals. | | | Transcendental Meditation is a modern form of meditation invented by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, an Indian spiritual teacher. | | | But some meditative traditions, such as yoga or tantra, are common to several religions or occur outside religious contexts. |
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| | Christianity - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | Most Christians believe that Jesus is the son of God and the Messiah of the Jews as prophesied in the Old Testament (or Hebrew Bible). | | | Crucial beliefs in Christian teaching are Jesus' incarnation, atonement, crucifixion, and resurrection from the dead to redeem humankind from sin and death; and the belief that the New Testament is a part of the Bible. | | | Christianity is an Abrahamic religion based on the life, teachings, death by crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth as described in the New Testament. |
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| | Christian anarchism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Christian anarchism is the belief that there is only one source of authority to which Christians are ultimately answerable, the authority of God as embodied in the teachings of Jesus. | | | Some Christian anarchists have held a critical or non-inspired view of the Bible, and base their beliefs on what they think are the principles the historical Jesus promoted, not necessitating compatibility with the every passage of the Christian Bible. | | | The Doukhobors ("Spirit Wrestlers") are a radical Christian sect that maintain a belief in pacifism and a communal lifestyle, while rejecting secular government, the Bible, and the divinity of Jesus. |
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| | Christianity Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament writings of his early followers. | | | Since Christianity is the largest religion in the world (making approximately one-third of the population), it is necessary to understand the various faith traditions in terms of commonalities and differences between tradition, theology, church government, doctrine, language, and so on. | | | Christian movements Christian movements are theological, political, or philosophical intepretations of Christianity that are not generally represented by a specific church, sect, or denomination. |
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| | Since Christianity is the largest religion in the world (making approximately one-third of the population), it is necessary to understand the various faith traditions in terms of commonalities and differences between tradition, theology, church government, doctrine, language, and so on. | | | The Christian doctrine of the Trinity states that God is a single being who exists, simultaneously and eternally, as a communion of three Persons: the Father, the Son (the eternal Logos, incarnate as Jesus of Nazareth), and the Holy Spirit. | | | Christian movements are theological, political, or philosophical intepretations of Christianity that are not generally represented by a specific church, sect, or denomination. |
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| | Maronite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Even though they are considered Arab Christians, ethnically speaking, they are mainly Syriac-Aramaeans with a mix of Phoenician, Crusader, and Greeks. | | | This article is part of the Eastern Christianity Portal - Learn more about Eastern Christianity | | | Maronites (Marunoye ܐܶܝܢܘܪܡ in Syriac, Mâruniyya مارونية in Arabic) are members of an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Pope of the Roman Church. |
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| | Christian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | For the major Christian denominations, the only requirement to be a Christian is to believe in Jesus as the Son of God. | | | Other denominations (The Church of Christ, International Churches of Christ, and the Independent Christian Churches) teach that the definition of a Christian is someone who has been baptized as a repenting adult “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”– (Matthew 28:19). | | | New Christian denominations and other organizations are usually the result of these self interperated renewal movements that seek to bring back some aspect of the Christian faith but lack in the fullness through misguidance of freethought. |
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| | The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools is a society of male religious approved by the Church, but not taking Holy orders, and having for its object the personal sanctification of its members and the Christian education of youth, especially of the children of artisans and the poor. | | | For the Church of France this was the spring of a new era; for the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools it was a resurrection. | | | The spirit of the institute, infused by the example and teachings of its founder and fostered by the exercises of the religious life, is a spirit of faith and of zeal. |
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