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• Jesus, name above all names: Revealing the heart of Christianity.
• God's Genius challenges both scholars and laymen to rethink their concepts of Church and Christianity. ...
• 95 Mere Christianity.

• The Great Apostasy is a term of opprobrium used by some religious groups to allege a general fallen state of traditional Christianity, or especially of Catholicism and (often merely by implication) Eastern Orthodoxy: that it is not representative of the faith founded by Jesus Christ through his twelve Apostles. ...
• Some groups see themselves as uniquely the restoration of original Christianity. In their case, the term, Great Apostasy, is used more technically than above, directed in a sweeping way over all of so-called Christianity beyond their group, indicating that true Christianity has not been preserved, but is restored in themselves. These various groups differ as to exactly when the Great Apostasy took place and what the exact errors or changes were, however all of them make a similar claim that true Christianity was generally lost until it was disclosed again in themselves. ... The term may sometimes be used in this sense by other groups claiming their unique authority as representing Christianity in its original purity over against the devastation of the truth in so-called Christianity, or in the Catholic churches in particular. ...
• The succession of persecutions after a couple hundred years was so successful that near the end of the 3rd century under the reign of the Roman Emperor Diocletian, monuments were erected memorializing the extinction of Christianity. ...
• Latter-day Saints conclude that what survived the persecutions was not the Church of Jesus Christ but merely a fragment of what Jesus had established; that is, Christianity continued but not in its original form. ...
• Thus, Latter-day Saints refer to the restitution of all things mentioned in Acts 3:20-21 and claim that a restoration of all the original and primary doctrines and ordinances of Christianity was needed and happened through Joseph Smith. ...
• In sympathy with this assessment, the modern philosopher Jacques Ellul, in his book "Anarchy and Christianity", mentions a dramatic shift in AD 313, at the Council of Elvira. ... With this, Ellul sees the end of the original anti-statist, anti-militarist, anarchist Christianity. ...
• According to this view, these verses foretold the rise of errors, among which they count the veneration of relics, saints and the Blessed Virgin Mary, importing polytheism, idolatry, and fetishism into Christianity; these are the "seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. ...
• This variety, and toleration of greater and greater differences in belief, has resulted in further deviations from historic Christianity. ...
• Again, while it is always difficult to discern which elements of culture are compatible with Christianity or can be redeemed and which must be abandoned, Protestants continue to grapple with the same issues today, especially in missions work when they attempt to bring the Gospel to cultures that haven't heard it before. ...

• Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism and Christianity all developed millennia before the existence of the scientific method, followed by Islam about a thousand years prior to the modern era; their classical works show an appreciation of the natural world, but express little or no interest in any systematic investigation of it for its own sake. ...
• In the Medieval era some leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, undertook a project of synthesis between religion, philosophy, and natural sciences. ...
• In Christianity, for instance, to bolster the authority of religion over philosophy and science, which had been eroded by the autonomy of the monasteries, and the rivalry of the universities, the Church reacted against the conflict between scholarship and religious certainty, by giving more explicit sanction to officially correct views of nature and scripture. ...
• Hugh Ross is a website by a former research fellow at Caltech who believes that science and Christianity are reconcilable. ...

• The various denominations of Christianity are not in complete agreement on the canon of the Christian Bible. ... In Protestant Christianity, these books are called the Apocrypha, and are rejected as non-canonical. ...
• The Ethiopian church adds several other books, not accepted by the rest of Christianity, such as the Book of Jubilees and Book of Enoch, to the Old Testament. ...
• Christianity .

• Talk:Christianity and Jewish prophecy.
• Many faiths have scriptures which contain prophecies, not just Christianity. And even within Christianity not all prophecies are about the coming of Jesus. ...
• The article can explain what historians believe these verses originally meant in their original historical context (the Anchor Bible series is a good source of info on this); it can then show how Judaism interpreted these verses, how Christianity interpreted these verses, and offer explanations of why these views differ. ...

• " The only content is a basic review of the differences between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, which, in my opinion, should either be a seperate page or should not exist at all. ...
• If you want to argue that Christianity is false, do so on Usenet; if you want to present prominent, common, well-documented arguments against Christianity (as opposed to your own idiosyncratic arguments--in all likelihood, you, dear reader, are not a religious scholar of note), there is certainly a place for that here. ...
• I have traded 'Christian sects' for 'branches of Christianity'. ...
• Religions: Buddhism -- Caodaism -- Christianity -- Demonolatry -- Druzism -- Hinduism -- Islam -- Jainism -- Judaism -- Mandaeanism -- Manichaeism -- Paganism -- Process Church of the Final Judgement -- Santeria -- Satanism -- Scientology -- Shamanism -- Shinto -- Sikhism -- Taoism -- Voudun -- Yezidis -- Zoarastrianism .
• com of religions over 1 million adherents today: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Nonreligious, Buddhism, Chinese traditional religion (Confucianism, Taoism), Sikhism, Judaism, Baha'i, Jainism, Shinto, Cao Dai, Tenrikyo, Neo-Paganism .
• a minority religious group holding beliefs regarded as unorthodox or spurious; sect" Merriam-Webster; cult; 4 If going with 4a, the question is then: Who calls the shots? Who says what is orthodox or not? In the case of Christianity, non-biblical doctrines are usually enough to get you into the cult category, but that includes a lot of major denominations -- thus 4b is probably the most used, since it implies a splinter group, or a minority. ...
• I've removed a reference to Orthodox Christianity in the last paragraph, where an ecclesiology was attributed to it that it does not in fact possess, but as I'm not a regular contributor here I'm unwilling to introduce the more drastic edit I think is called for. ...
• Many religions (such as Catholic Christianity, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Judaism, Islam) teach not only that their followers should accept a given set of doctrines as true, but also that these doctrines have never changed, and never will change. ...
• Christianity is the only religion where God sent His Son to "pay the price" into heaven. ...
• Christianity is the only religion where God says, I'll send my Son to die for you to get into heaven. ...
• As does Christianity, of course. But I take your point that Christianity has God playing a particularly active role. ...
• Well, I think what you wrote in the article needs a slight rewording - most religions have God "reaching out" to humanity in some sense, it's just that in Christianity this is in a very strong sense. ...
• I do feel that with the article as it stands, that bit looks like an attempt to promote Christianity above other religions, which is a problem. I mean, this may be something special to Christianity, but other religions could say they too are special in other ways. So this particular thing that's special about Christianity probably shouldn't be promoted in the article in this way. ...

• The Epistle of Mathetes (Believer/Disciple) to Diognetus: This Apologetic treatise? written perhaps ca 200, presents a rational defense of Christianity and shows the folly of idolatry. ...
• The Writings of Tertullian: Our earliest extensively preserved Latin Christian author 140-230 , who aligned himself around 207 with the "Montanist" Christian movement that was considered "heretical" by the representatives of emerging mainstream Christianity. ...
• Lost Books of Early Christianity (R. ...

• Christianity.
• Christianity: Simple Truth.
• Christianity rises to the top when you earnestly investigate the other theories, philosophies, movements and religions of the world. Yes, as hard as it is to hear in our pluralistic world community, Christianity is different than all the others. That may sound terribly dogmatic and narrow-minded, but the simple truth is that Christianity is the only true religion. ...
• Christianity: Why Believe It’s the Only Way.
• Christianity is not based upon evidence. ...
• Christians do not go around saying Christianity is the only way because they are arrogant, stupid or judgmental. ...
• Christianity: Not Religion – A Relationship .
• Christianity is not really a religion; it is a relationship with God. ... Christianity is not about ornate buildings, flamboyant preachers, or traditional rituals. Christianity is about truly accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior. ...
• Why Christianity?.
• History of Christianity.
• Beginning of Christianity.

• 1 Panentheism in Christianity.
• Panentheism in Christianity .
• Panentheism has only recently been introduced to Christianity via process theology. ...

• ChristianITy : Jesus is Lord. ...
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• Question: Christianity (and Islam?) believe in the existence a force that is opposed to God ("the Devil"). ...
• In fact, that is one of the main reason that people left Christianity to create Unitarian-Universalism. ...
• What you reder to is the province of academic ivory tower theoology, which is fine, but is not representative of real-world Christianity in any statistically meaningful sense. ...
• I understand that Muslims and Jews may look at the doctrine of the trinity and see three separate gods, and therefor claim that Christianity is polytheistic. ...
• The three main Western religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, are monotheistic. ...
• They are trying to legally find a way to hold onto their beliefs, without condemning Christianity. ...
• The following was removed - The Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) traditionally subscribed to exclusive monotheism, though an increasing number of adherents of these religions today subscribe to the inclusive monotheist view. ...

• The 'offensiveness' of Christianity.
• There is an intrinsic bias in our popular culture against Christianity, and it's getting worse. ...
• Their constant barrages against Christian religious freedom and Christianity itself dispel that myth outright. ...
• It represents an increasingly common attitude in the culture that Christianity, on its face, is offensive. ...
• Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging Political War Against Christianity.

• A Christianity Today editorial posted 03/09/2004.
• Christian History Corner: Is Christianity Oppressive to Women?.
• A Christianity Today editorial posted 03/03/2004.
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• In ancient Greece, and in the Judeo-Christian context, especially later on when Christianity became the backdrop of European thinkers, a distinct line was drawn between metaphysics and religion. ...
• The organization, structures and denominations of Christianity came into being after his death. ...
• One example is found in pre-Reformation Christianity, when 'Indulgences' (excusal of sin) were for sale, and corruption was endemic in Church appointments. ...
• In the late 19th century and throughout most of the 20th century, religion, especially Christianity, has suffered a great deal of damage, both to its reputation, its power, and its membership. ...
• For example, Stark, who claims to be an agnostic, hypothesizes that, before Christianity became established as the state religion of Constantinople, Christianity grew rapidly because it provided a practical framework within which non-family members would provide help to other people in the community in a barter system of mutual assistance. ...
• While some practitioners of the Abrahamic faiths or "people of the Book" (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) each worship one all-powerful God, each of these religions has different beliefs. ...
• Examples of monotheisms include: Judaism, Sikhism, Christianity, Islam and the Bahá'í Faith. ...
• Usually, each deity is considered a separate entity (as opposed, for instance, to Christianity which considers the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as one). ...
• The historical or legendary founders of some of the major world religions include Abraham and Moses (Judaism), Zoroaster (Zoroastrianism), Siddartha Gautama (Buddhism), Jesus Christ (Christianity), Muhammad (Islam), and Bahá'u'lláh (Bahá'í). ...
• Later religious viewpoints, such as Christianity and Islam, point to a myriad of archeological evidence (i. ...
• Christianity is noted for the founding of many major universities, the creation of hospitals, the giving of food and medical supplies, and the creation of orphanages and schools, to name a few. ...
• Christianity claims to be monotheistic, although some writers find this idea problematic since Christian doctrine has developed a notion of God as one essence in three persons (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), explained in the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. ...

• Christianity and Civilization.
• Now let me come by a very easy transition to what is my subject in this essay --the relation between Christianity and civilization. ...
• One of the oldest and most persistent views is that Christianity was the destroyer of the civilization within whose framework it grew up. That was, I suppose, the view of the Emperor Marcus, as far as he was aware of the presence of Christianity in his world. ... He starts you there, and at the end of the long story he says "I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion," meaning that it was Christianity as well as barbarism which overthrew the civilization for which the Antonines stood.
• Evidently, if you take that view, Christianity rises as the empire sinks, and the rise of Christianity is the fall of civilization. ... It was not even the philosophies which preceded Christianity that were responsible for the death of the ancient Graeco-Roman civilization. ... And the rise of the philosophies, and the subsequent rise of the religions out of which Christianity emerged as the final successor of them all, was something that happened after the Graeco-Roman civilization had already put itself to death. ...
• I am going, in the course of this essay, to challenge that thesis; at the moment I merely want to point out that Frazer is at the same time putting Gibbon's thesis and stating it in explicit terms; and on this point I would give Frazer the answer that I have already ventured to give to Gibbon: that Christianity was not the destroyer of the ancient Greek civilization, because that civilization had decayed from inherent defects of its own before Christianity arose. But I would agree with Frazer, and would ask you to agree with me, that the tide of Christianity has been ebbing and that our post-Christian Western secular civilization that has emerged is a civilization of the same order as the pre-Christian Graeco-Roman civilization. This observation opens up a second possible view of the relation between Christianity and civilization --not the same view in which Christianity appears in the role of civilization's humble servant.
• According to this second possible view, Christianity is, as it were, the egg, grub and chrysalis between butterfly and butterfly. Christianity is a transitional thing which bridges the gap between one civilization and another, and I confess that I myself held this rather patronizing view for many years. ... Civilization is a species of being which seeks to reproduce itself, and Christianity has had a useful but a subordinate role in bringing two new secular civilizations to birth after the death of their predecessor. ... And you look at the role of Christianity in the interval and conclude that Christianity is a kind of chrysalis which has held and preserved the hidden germs of life until these have been able to break out again into a new growth of secular civilization. That is an alternative view to the theory of Christianity being the destoyer of the ancient Graeco-Roman civilization; and, if one looks abroad through the history of civilizations, one can see other cases which seem to conform to the same pattern.

• Interviews: "Christianity's New Center" (September 12, 2002) .
• Philip Jenkins, the author of "The Next Christianity" in the October Atlantic, argues that most Americans and Europeans are blind to Christianity's real future. ...
• The Next Christianity .
• Around the globe Christianity is growing and mutating in ways that observers in the West tend not to see. Tumultuous conflicts within Christianity will leave a mark deeper than Islam's on the century ahead.
• Christianity as a whole is both growing and mutating in ways that observers in the West tend not to see. ... But in its variety and vitality, in its global reach, in its association with the world's fastest-growing societies, in its shifting centers of gravity, in the way its values and practices vary from place to place—in these and other ways it is Christianity that will leave the deepest mark on the twenty-first century. ...
• It was a far-reaching social movement that sought to return to the original sources of Christianity. ...
• Worldwide, Christianity is actually moving toward supernaturalism and neo-orthodoxy, and in many ways toward the ancient world view expressed in the New Testament: a vision of Jesus as the embodiment of divine power, who overcomes the evil forces that inflict calamity and sickness upon the human race. In the global South (the areas that we often think of primarily as the Third World) huge and growing Christian populations—currently 480 million in Latin America, 360 million in Africa, and 313 million in Asia, compared with 260 million in North America—now make up what the Catholic scholar Walbert Buhlmann has called the Third Church, a form of Christianity as distinct as Protestantism or Orthodoxy, and one that is likely to become dominant in the faith. ...
• Although Northern governments are still struggling to come to terms with the notion that Islam might provide a powerful and threatening supranational ideology, few seem to realize the potential political role of ascendant Southern Christianity. ...
• The changes that Catholic and other reformers today are trying to inspire in North America and Europe (and that seem essential if Christianity is to be preserved as a modern, relevant force on those continents) run utterly contrary to the dominant cultural movements in the rest of the Christian world, which look very much like the Counter-Reformation. ...
• 6 billion (making Christianity by far the world's largest faith). ...
• These figures actually understate the Southern predominance within Catholicism, and within world Christianity more generally, because they fail to take account of Southern emigrants to Europe and North America. ...
• he demographic changes within Christianity have many implications for theology and religious practice, and for global society and politics. The most significant point is that in terms of both theology and moral teaching, Southern Christianity is more conservative than the Northern—especially the American—version. ... The liberal Catholic writer James Carroll has complained that "world Christianity is falling increasingly under the sway of anti-intellectual fundamentalism. ...

• zen Christianity.
• zen Christianity.
• zen Christianity.
• My own starting point is as a lifelong church-going Anglican Christian who has come to find the usual explanations of Christianity unreal. ...
• But for me it's just what I really think - it's a re-imagining of Christianity that makes more sense. What's needed, or at least what I want, is a minimal definition of Christianity. ...
• zen Christianity.
• zen Christianity.
• There is not intended to be any specific relationship with Zen Buddhism, except insofar as zen Christianity is to Christianity what Zen Buddhism is to Buddhism. Everything in zen Christianity is to be justified as an interpretation of Christianity rather than because it may be seen in Zen Buddhism. ...
• However, it's clear that zazen, the meditation style used by Zen Buddhism, can be used in Christianity, and is relevant here at least for individual spiritual progress. ...
• zen Christianity.
• Makes Zen Buddhism real in a very similar way to how I'm finding Christianity to be real i. ...
• Western Catholic Reporter Thomas Merton linked Zen and Christianity - Canadian prof says monk remained orthodox while embracing Eastern religion; .
• zen Christianity.
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• The Wittgenstein family had converted to Christianity three generations ago on the paternal side and two generations ago on the maternal side; nonetheless they were of mainly Jewish descent and under the Nuremberg laws were initially classed as Jews. ...

• For an excellent introduction to Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, Christianity, and Judaism, Huston Smith's "The World's Religions" is highly recommended.
• Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baha'i faith all originated with a divine covenant between the God of the ancient Israelites and Abraham around 2000 BCE. ...
• Christianity - 30+ CE.
• Christianity started out as a breakaway sect of Judaism nearly 2000 years ago. ...
• Since Christianity and Judaism share the same history up to the time of Jesus Christ, they are very similar in many of their core beliefs. ...
• There are a multitude of forms of Christianity which have developed either because of disagreements on dogma, adaptation to different cultures, or simply personal taste. For this reason there can be a great difference between the various forms of Christianity they may seem like different religions to some people.
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• Sacred Texts of Christianity - Christian sacred texts available for free online viewing at sacred-texts. ...
• Christianity at OCRT - Articles on Christianity at the web site of the Ontario Consultants for Religious Tolerance. ...

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• Grace is a concept of central importance in the theology of Christianity. ...
• 6 Grace in Western Christianity.
• 8 Grace in Eastern Christianity.
• Indeed, some denominations of Christianity paraphrase grace as "God's Rewards At Christ's Expense" to represent this. ...
• To simplify greatly, these changes took the church from a period where the persecution of Christians was an ever-present threat, to a time when the Emperor Constantine ended all persecutions of Christianity and made its practice legal. ...
• The history of Christianity at this point is of a remarkable reversal of fortune. ...
• This, too, affected the fortunes of Christianity as an institution. ...
• Grace in Western Christianity.
• To some this might suggest that his commitment to Christianity was lukewarm; in an attempt to rebut this suggestion, a contrary suggestion was made. ...
• Rather than God's property to be offered at His sole discretion, in Western Christianity at least, grace had become a sort of spiritual currency, and the Church was its banker. ...
• In the fifth century, a debate that affected the understanding of grace in Western Christianity, and that was to have long reaching effects on subsequent developments in the doctrine, took place between Pelagius and St Augustine of Hippo. ...
• Grace in Eastern Christianity .
• In Eastern Christianity, grace is not some external "thing" or "force" that can be somehow quantified or doled out, but rather an attribute of God, or a description of how God acts in forgiving and spiritually healing people. ...
• In folk practices of Christianity and other religions, a grace is a short prayer said before a meal to bless and give thanks for it. ...

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• Slavery and Christianity.
• How numerous the slaves were in Roman society when Christianity made its appearance, how hard was their lot, and how the competition of slave labour crushed free labour is notorious. It is the scope of this article to show what Christianity has done for slaves and against slavery, first in the Roman world, next in that society which was the result of the barbarian invasions, and lastly in the modern world. ...
• Christianity accepts society as it is, influencing it for its transformation through, and only through, individual souls. ...
• This language was understood by masters and by slaves who became converts to Christianity. ...
• Absolute religious equality, as proclaimed by Christianity, was therefore a novelty. ...
• Primitive Christianity did not attack slavery directly; but it acted as though slavery did not exist. ... 18, 20), that primitive Christianity had not even "an embryonic vision" of a society in which there should be no slavery, to say that the Fathers of the Church did not feel "the horror of slavery", is to display either strange ignorance or singular unfairness. ...
• Although the civil law on slavery still lagged behind the demands of Christianity ("The laws of Caesar are one thing, the laws of Christ another", St. ...
• The foregoing exposition of the subject is an answer to their materialistic conception of history, as showing that, if not the only, at least the principal, cause of that disappearance is Christianity acting through the authority of its teaching and the influence of its charity. ...

• In Western Christianity, Lent is the period preceding the Christian holy day of Easter. Eastern Christianity calls this period Great Lent, to distinguish it from the Winter Lent (or Advent) that precedes Christmas. The remainder of this article will discuss Lent as it is understood and practiced in Western Christianity, except when as noted. ...

• The Liberal Catholic Church is a form of Christianity based on theosophical ideas. ...

• The Trinity is a central doctrine of most branches of Christianity; it says that God is one God, existing in three distinct persons, usually referred to as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. ...
• The Apostles' Creed, for example, has been commonly used as a brief summation of Trinitarian Christian faith, to be professed by converts to Christianity when they receive baptism, and at other times in the liturgy of the church. ...
• Nevertheless, it is the language employed by all branches of Trinitarian Christianity. ...
• Lewis put it like this Mere Christianity "Our life comes to us moment by moment. ...
• Because Christianity converts cultures from within, the doctrinal formulas as they have developed bear the marks of the ages through which the church has passed. ...
• It was also the form of Christianity that had been adopted by northern tribes of Vandals, and it would have given Constantine an advantage in defense against them, if the council adopted the same faith. ...
• According to the teachings of orthodox Christianity, the three persons of the Holy Trinity are said to share one Divine Nature, thus preserving their belief in one God. ...
• It is alleged that, after the death of the apostles, these pagan beliefs began to invade Christianity. ...
• They suggest that Alexandrian theology, with its strong emphasis on the deity of Christ, was an intermediary between the Egyptian religious heritage and Christianity. ...
• As proof of this, critics of the doctrine are able to point to the widely acknowledged synthesis of Christianity with platonic philosophy, which is evident in Trinitarian formulas that appeared by the end of the third century. ...

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