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| | AllRefer.com - World Council of Churches (Protestant Denominations) - Encyclopedia |
 | | The Roman Catholic Church is not a member of the council but sends delegated observers to its assemblies; it has full membership on the council's Commission of Faith and Order and on its Joint Working Group. | | | At Amsterdam there were 147 Christian churches from 44 countries; today there are 341 member churches from over 100 countries. | | | World Council of Churches, an international, interdenominational organization of most major Protestant, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox Christian churches; founded in Amsterdam in 1948, its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. |
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| | ipedia.com: Protestantism Article |
| | Protestants often refer to specific Protestant churches and groups as denominations to imply that they are differently named parts of the whole church. | | | Liberalism is a label for various attempts to accommodate the doctrine and practice, especially of the main branches of the Protestant churches, to the principles of the Enlightenment. | | | Protestants are also less fond of hierarchy, having relentlessly attacked the priestly cast and the Holy See's authority, and thus are closely associated with the local control and political democratization during the 16th and 17th century. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/protestantism.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Protestantism |
| | The Catholic Church of the twentieth century is vastly in advance of that of the sixteenth. | | | HANFORD AND KERSHAW (1849); BAUDRILLART, The Catholic Church, the Renaissance and Protestantism, tr. | | | The lay episcopacy which the princes assumed well-nigh reduced the medieval Church to a state of abject vassalage, the secular clergy to ignorance and worldliness, the peasant to bondage and often to misery. |
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| | PROTESTANT CHURCHES: Lutheran Communion. (from Religion) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | A strong Lutheran church throughout the centuries, it was influenced in the 17th and 18th centuries by Pietism, the Lutheran-based movement that emphasized personal religious experience and reform. | | | In 1534 the Christian church in England separated itself from the jurisdiction of the pope in Rome, and Parliament named King Henry VIII “the only supreme head of the Church of England.&; This change established a new denomination that became the mother church for many other regional and national church bodies. | | | Pastors who had accepted the Lutheran faith were established in Oldenburg during the Protestant Reformation in Germany, and in 1573 an order for church government and the Lutheran confessions were accepted for the church. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-232893
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| | Adherents.com |
| | Membership: In 1988 the Church reported 5,219 members, 27 churches... | | | Founded as a separate denomination of Reformed churches in 1924... | | | "The Protestant Reformed Churches in America are a denomination of 27 churches and almost 6000 members in the US and Canada. |
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| | WHAT THE PROTESTANT CHURCHES ARE SAYING ABOUT JEWS AND JUDAISM |
| | We affirm that the church, elected in Jesus Christ, has been engrafted into the people of God established by the covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. | | | Mainline churches are beginning to see that as untrue. | | | In giving the Jewish people an opportunity for an independent existence and a rejuvenation of [their] spirit, it is evidence God has not terminated His Covenant with the people, indeed that He is their faithful Lord. |
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http://www.j-cinstitute.org/Articles/Blewett_Saying.htm
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| | Jesus - Protestant |
| | The Protestant Reformed Churches are Reformed, Calvinistic Churches which maintain the doctrines of... | | | Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints | | | For genealogy questions and information regarding ancestors who were of the Protestant faith, such... |
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