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• Is Shin Buddhism the same as Christianity?.
• In meeting the Buddhists of China and Japan, the missionaries saw many things that reminded them of Christianity. ...
• They decided that Satan had invented a counterfeit Christianity to lead people astray and to keep them from following the true Christian teachings. ... After this discovery, some Westerners came to believe that the similarities between Buddhism and Christianity were the result of the influence of Nestorian Christians.
• Both Christianity and Shin Buddhism insist that mankind is absolutely depraved. ...
• Traditional Christianity believes man is filled with Original Sin as a result of Adam's transgression in Eden. ...
• Shin and Christianity, then, are entirely different in their concept of man's depravity. Christianity bases man's depravity upon his disobedience to God's commands, and this results in damnation for man's soul. ...
• Both Christianity and Shin find salvation from man's depraved condition through Faith. ...
• Sometimes people think they see a great similarity in the object of worship in Christianity and Shin. ...
• Christianity has had similar theological discussions. ...
• Here, too, we see a great difference between Shin and Christianity. Christianity worships a personal, creator God. ...
• Christianity and Shin are both said to be other-worldly. ...
• It is, therefore, not correct to say that the Pure Realm, which is itself Nirvana, is similar to the Heaven of orthodox Christianity.
• A more apparent similarity, however, is seen in the concept of the clergy in Shin and in Christianity. ...

• Christianity - Jesus' religion .
• Essential Books on Christianity.
•   Much of the Protestant fundamentalist movement in America has become a branch of Christianity that for the most part no longer understands itself, while at the same time thinking that it represents all true Christianity. ...
• To the degree that Christianity has been allowed to become a book-religion, it has forgotten that with the Gospels, the old “age of the letter” has passed, and the “age of the spirit” has come (St. ...
• Christianity, in America at least, has become associated too much with a lifeless type of moralism, and issues of politics and legislation. ...   And Christianity has become largely understood, even by Christians, as a faith against everything else:  against "the world" and worldliness, against other religions, even against the self. ... Suzuki expressed some amusement about this aspect of Christianity. ...
• There is no real way to practice a Christianity that has become destitute of its deeper, or mystical, element. ...   Also, the World Community for Christian Meditation has opened for many the practice of Christian meditation and the work of John Main, OSB, and plays a beautiful role in the dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity. ...
•   But in becoming the religion about Jesus instead of the religion of Jesus, Christianity separated itself from the basic insight of its master, and regarded him as a bizarre deus ex machina in the plot of history. ...   Christianity thus became an impossible religion which institutionalized guilt in failing to be Christlike as a virtue.
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• Christianity.
• Christianity is a major religion, stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of God) in the 1st century AD. ... Its largest groups are the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox churches, and the Protestant churches; in addition to these churches there are several independent churches of Eastern Christianity as well as numerous sects throughout the world. ...
• This is followed by an examination of several intellectual manifestations of Christianity. Finally, the position of Christianity in the world, the relations among its divisions and denominations, its missionary outreach to other peoples, and its relations with other world religions are discussed. ...
• The essence and identity of Christianity .
• At the very least, Christianity is the faith tradition that focuses on the figure of Jesus Christ. ... That tradition, viewed as a system of belief and behaviour, leads people to see Christianity as one of the world religions, alongside Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and others. ...
• As a tradition, Christianity is more than a system of religious belief. ... Christianity is thus both a living tradition of faith and the culture that the faith leaves behind as a kind of deposit. The agent of Christianity is the church, the community of people who make up the body of believers. Christianity may incorporate, along with such believers, their doctrines, customs, and historical episodes. ...
• To say that Christianity "focuses" on Jesus Christ is to say that, whatever else it comprehends, somehow it brings these realities together in reference to an ancient historic figure. ...
• Christianity addresses the historical figure of Jesus Christ against the background of, and while seeking to remain faithful to, the experience of one God. ...
• To monotheism as an element of the faith tradition of Christianity one may add that, with rare exceptions, Christianity refers to a plan of salvation or redemption. ... Christianity is based on a particular experience or scheme directed to the act of saving--that is, of bringing or "buying back," which is part of what redemption means, these creatures of God to their source in God. ... The term is itself of Greek origin and thus represents only one part of the tradition, one element in the terms that have gone into making up Christianity. ...

• "Christianity".
• "In Christianity the world is sanctified, while evil, sin and death are conquered. ...
• Saturday evening September 8, 1990, Fr Alexander Men delivered a talk on Christianity as part of a series of talks on world faiths. ...
• So we come to the end of our journey through the ages and world views, and arrive at the summit, to that bright mountain glacier in which the sun is reflected, and which we call Christianity. ...
• While Christianity arose as a challenge to many philosophical and religious systems, it at the same time fulfilled the expectations of the majority of them. ...
• As the passion for salvation and deliverance from evil permeates Buddhism (the Buddha said that as the waters of the sea were saturated with salt, so too his teaching--dharma--was permeated with the idea of salvation), so the thirst for, and indeed promise of, salvation is inherent in Christianity. Similarly, in Christianity one finds, as in Islam, absolute devotion to a God who is sovereign ruler of the cosmos and man's destiny, and the notion in Chinese thought that heaven ("T'ien") provides man with a compass in life, even in its details and various traditional nuances. Even the Brahman belief in diverse manifestations of the Divine, or the notion in pantheism that God is in all, and that He, like a mysterious force, permeates every drop, every atom of the universe (although it does not restrict the work of God to this all-encompassing presence), are to be found in Christianity. ...
• It would be a mistake, however, to perceive Christianity as an eclectic world view of sorts which simply gathered together all elements of former belief systems. ...
• I should immediately draw your attention to the fact that Jesus Christ did not teach Christianity as some sort of concept. ...
• This sign can be found in every current of Christianity, in all churches and denominations. ...
• Only near-sighted people can suppose that Christianity has seen its time. Christianity has only taken its first, I would say timid, steps in human history. ... The gospel arrow is aimed towards eternity, and that which we call Christian history is in many ways a series of clumsy and unsuccessful attempts to bring Christianity about. ...
• Christianity is not a new ethical system, but a new life which brings humanity into direct contact with God through a new union or covenant. ...
• Herein lies the center and axis of Christianity.

• Virtual Christianity.
• Virtual Christianity is an extensive collection, with brief commentary, of key resource pages devoted to christianity and study of the Bible. ...
• Sub-Pages of Virtual Christianity.
• Virtual Christianity - this page, also in frames interface. ...
• Virtual Christianity: Bibles - A comprehensive list of on-line Bibles, in English and other languages both ancient and modern. ...
• Virtual Christianity: Software - Links to downloadable software. ...
• Virtual Christianity: What's New - For a list of the changes to Virtual Christianity. ...
• Any reasonable site will be included in this Referer Links page if they have a link to the Virtual Christianity site that has been used at least once in the last two months. ...
• Web Search Engine Sub-Page Resource Lists of Christianity.
• This section contains Christianity Resource Lists that are sub-pages of Web Search Sites. ... They are great starting points for exploring Christianity on the Internet.
• EINet Galaxy Christianity page - see also EINet Galaxy Religious Literature page. ...
• Other Resource Lists of Christianity.
• Here are some additional places to explore Christianity on the Internet. ...
• Highlights a rather broad array of links loosely relating to christianity. ...
• Categories include Evidence for Christianity, Bibles, Biblical Languages, Biblical Manuscripts/Texts, Biblical Archaeology, Bible Studies, General Indexes/Search Engines, Church History, Religions and Denominations, and International churches of Christ.

• OF CHRISTIANITY.
• His writings, along with those of the author(s) of the Gospel of John, provided much of the theological foundation for what has been called Pauline Christianity, a movement that he spread throughout the northern and eastern Mediterranean basin. ... After the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman Army in 70 CE, the Jewish Christian movement was largely dissipated, leaving Pauline Christianity as the dominant group. ...
• The Roman Empire recognized Pauline Christianity as a valid religion in 313 CE. ...
• Current status of Christianity: .
• Christianity in North America is a severely divided faith, consisting of  over 1,000 denominations, which are often categorized into conservative, mainline and liberal wings:.
• They tend to look upon Christianity as a living relationship with their Savior.  Many regard other religions as lacking truth; they believe that truth is found exclusively in Christianity.
• Some say that we are a stealth Islamic, Satanic, Scientology or Mormon group trying to undermine Christianity. ...
• Our essays describe the wide diversity within Christianity. ...
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• --> Christianity Quotes From Wisdom Quotes: Quotations to inspire and challenge - by Jone Johnson Lewis | Wisdom Quotes - Home Page | More Quote Categories | Back to Previous Page | Christianity Quotations .
• Quotes in this category are meant to challenge and inspire a Christianity more true to its own ideals. ...
• To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.
• Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts - the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
• If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?.
• Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. ...
• Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects? Memorial and Remonstrance.
• Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the State, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars.
• Christianity has been buried inside the walls of churches and secured with the shackles of dogmatism. ...
• Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
• He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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• Christianity.
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• Christianity is the religion centered on the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, a wandering Jewish teacher who lived in Palestine in the early first century. Early Christianity focused on Jesus' unique understanding of God and the Jewish historical faith. ... Although Roman emperors persecuted Christians for several generations, Christianity eventually came to be the reigning religion of the Roman Empire. ...
• Christianity has been the dominant religious worldview of the Western world for nearly 2000 years, despite the Crusades, the Reformation, the Counter Reformation, and denominational fractures. Although other religions, like Islam, are challenging Christianity's dominance, it remains the largest religion in the world with nearly 2. ... Today there are three main divisions of Christianity—Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox. ...

• Based on the life, death, and coming to life again of this man Jesus--also called the Christ--there has developed the world's largest religion, Christianity. ... (For explanation of these divisions within Christianity see "A Short History" below. ...
• With all the differences in beliefs in the many denominations of Christianity, it is impossible to set out one list of teachings that apply to all Christians everywhere. ... No one has ever succeeded in distilling an "essence of Christianity. ...
• (For explanation of these divisions within Christianity see "A Short History" below. ...
• With all the differences in beliefs in the many denominations of Christianity, it is impossible to set out one list of teachings that apply to all Christians everywhere. ... No one has ever succeeded in distilling an "essence of Christianity. ...
• In its worship life, Christianity borrowed greatly from Jewish forms. ...
• The history of Christianity is filled with conflict, controversy, and division. ...
• Christianity became established in nearly all parts of the Roman Empire and in the Middle East during the first two centuries. ... Worst of all was the attempt by the Emperor Diocletian (284-305) to extinguish Christianity altogether. ... In 380, Theodosius I made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.
• FURTHER RESOURCES FOR CHRISTIANITY.
• Christianity in East and West (Sugden, 1981). ... The Rise of Christianity (Fortress, 1984). ... A History of Christianity (Atheneum, 1976). ... Mere Christianity (Macmillan, 1964). ... Christianity in the New World (Winston Press, 1984). ...

•   Families of  Religions  CHRISTIANITY .
• Introduction to Christianity A series of essays that come from a Reformed tradition North American source. ...
• Exploring Christianity  A worthy effort by some folks in New Zealand to put into words the basics about Christianity. ...

• Christianity.
• The Greatest "Shame" and "Glory" of Christianity.
•     Christianity        .
• The Greatest "Shame" and "Glory" of Christianity:.
•    There are over 700 "denominations" and "Branches", and it is the greatest "shame" and "glory" of Christianity:.
• The Dark Side of Christianity.
• Christianity  Judaism  Islam   Hinduism   Buddhism   Sikhism  Taoism  Confucianism   Shinto   .

• Christianity for the Third Millennium, Inc.
• Christianity in its traditional forms appears to many to be a dying religion. ...
• Christianity for the Third Millennium, Inc. ...
• In defending Christianity, too often these groups set themselves against the knowledge revolution from Galileo to Darwin to Einstein that has eroded the confidence that once undergirded the traditional Christian understanding of life.
• Christianity for the Third Millennium, Inc. ...
• We believe that the ultimate task of Christianity is not to give religious security but to seek God's truth even when that is an uncomfortable truth.
• We seek to call the church into a new Reformation, one that will recast the essential experience that underlies the perceived truth of Christianity into the words and concepts of a new century and its emerging consciousness.
• Christianity for the Third Millennium will seek to call this new paradigm of what the church means into being from among all branches of Christianity, indeed from among all the seekers of the truth of God in all the religious systems of the world. ...
• Christianity for the Third Millennium has been incorporated as a not-profit tax-free organization under the laws of the State of New Jersey. ...

• How Christianity's mind-control system destroyed Jesus' .
• Origins of Christianity, Shroud of Turin, Stonehenge, astronomy, and of the sacred geometry of temple, synagogue, and cathedral construction. ...
• Students of Christianity will learn the origin of the Christ vision, as distinguished from the Jesus history. Christian lay persons will learn what academicians and seminary-educated clergy always have known about the Christ Story, which is that a bright line must be drawn between the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith before Christian fundamentalists, and other biblical literalists, can abandon exoteric Christianity's "believe and obey" dogmas, and can enjoy the spiritual growth offered by esoteric Christianity. ...
• Too much? Not enough? Answer those questions for yourself, or allow your clergy-person to answer them for you, remembering that the Jesus of history promised you spiritual freedom (John 8:32) rather than bondage to the Christian Church's "believe and obey" system of mind-control!The book titled Jesus Silenced, and subtitled How Christianity's mind-control system destroyed Jesus' promise of spiritual freedom, will be available at this Web Site. ... In the meantime, you can read Appendix One from that book to compare twenty-first-century Christian fundamentalism with the pre-Nicaean Christianity of the second century CE.
• Persons who read Jesus Silenced or the author's other writings will understand why a former Southern Baptist minister once commented that exoteric Christianity, nowadays called Christian fundamentalism or literalism, as distinguished from esoteric or visionary Christianity, is the longest-continuing and most destructive fraud ever perpetrated upon humanity in general and women in particular.
• You are a brave soul to be reading about matters known only to a few academicians through the existence of institutionalized Christianity. Why brave? Because institutionalized Christianity remains to this day a terrorist organization, having replaced torture chambers and firings at the stake with firings from one job and with threats of perpetual fiery tortures in Dante's fictional "Hell. ...
• The academic paper which may be read in its entirety, complete with endnotes, by clicking on the hyperlink Hildegard von Bingen, addresses, primarily the Shekinah symbol for God as it appears in Judaism, in Christianity, and in the ancient mathematical astronomy of Stonehenge, matters known to Hildegard because her abbey was an Irish foundation instead of a Roman foundation. ...
• org Celtic Christianity.

• EXPLORING CHRISTIANITY.
• What is Christianity?.
• WHY CHRISTIANITY? .
• Six distinctive truths of Christianity: the character of its founder, its analysis of our real problems, the answer of the Cross, the means by which we receive forgiveness, the victory over evil already won and the kind of commitment required of its members. ...
• Covers the history of early technology and worldviews, the Christian foundations of modern science, the history of the debate on the age of the universe and evolution, seven ways in which Genesis 1 is interpreted by evangelicals, God's three greatest acts of creation, the place of humans in the universe, the need of science and Christianity for each other and the nature of God's creative activity. ...
• A comparison of four differing major worldviews; Atheism, Eastern Religions, Postmodernism and Christianity. ...

• What is Christianity?.
• Christianity is a relationship with Jesus .
• Christianity is the result of being born again .
• Christianity is a world wide faith. ...
• Christianity is based on the Bible. ...
• Some myths about Christianity .

• home postgraduate centre for the study of christianity in the non-western world.
• World Christianity : Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World.
• The Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World (CSCNWW) exists to advance scholarship, through research, teaching and publication, in Christianity outside the western hemisphere. As an integral part of the School of Divinity (New College) of the University of Edinburgh, CSCNWW seeks to promote interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to the study of Christianity and Christian theology. ...
• MTh/MSc/Dip in the Study of Non-Western Christianity (SNWC) .
• African Christianity Bibliography .
• With this double focus, CSCNWW is committed to maintaining the highest quality research and teaching on specific thematic issues in contemporary Christianity. ...
• Christianity and culture; .
• Christianity and religious pluralism (with special attention to indigenous religions and Islam); .
• Christianity, liberation and development; .
• In support of research and teaching in these areas, CSCNWW has an extensive research collection of published and unpublished materials relating to the study of world Christianity. ...
• Two taught Master of Theology (MTh) degrees are offered: one in the Study of Non-Western Christianity (SNWC), the other in Theology, Culture and Development (TCAD). ...
• All SPG students are expected to be familiar with aspects of Christianity in Africa, Asia and Latin America prior to re-registration for MPhil or PhD. ...
• MTh/MSc/Diploma in Non-Western Christianity (NWC) .
• post-colonial methods for the study of Christianity as a global religion .
• indigenous forms and expressions of Christianity .

• Christianity? What is it? What is Christianity not?.
• Ever wondered what is Christianity? Here are some ideas from scripture. ...
• Christianity is not just something we do, but something Jesus did for us.
• Christianity is not intended to make us better people; Jesus makes us new people.
• Christianity is not just pie in the sky when you die, it is the kingdom of heaven in our hearts.
• Christianity is not a Sunday affair. ...
• Christianity is not a heavy burden, Jesus' burden is light.
• Christianity is not just a way of life to be practised - it is a gift of life to be nurtured. ...
• Christianity is not earned through good works. ...
• Christianity is not a new start in life. ...
• Christianity is not western or eastern, It from above, through Jesus in heaven above.
• Christianity is not about "arriving" it's about "journeying" with Jesus.
• Christianity is not simply a lifestyle, It is living and dying for Jesus.
• Christianity is not a culture, Christianity is transcultural.
• Christianity is not a philosophy or outlook on life, its looking to a living Jesus.
• Christianity is not brain-washing, but the washing away of sins in Jesus blood.

•   About > Religion & Spirituality > Agnosticism/Atheism > About Christianity .
• About Christianity.
• About Christianity & Christians.
• Christianity is one of the most popular religions in the world. ... Here you can learn about various Christian groups, the Bible, Christian history, critiques of Christianity, the Religious Right, extremist Christians, recovery from Christianity, Jesus and much more.
• Christianity FAQ.
• This Christianity FAQ will cover a wide variety of information about Christianity and Christians: history, theology, theologians, beliefs, denominations, traditions and more.
• Read about important concepts necessary for understanding Christianity, Christian doctrines and the basic beliefs of various Christian groups. ... Neither apologetics nor critiques of Christianity can occur without an accurate understanding of Christian terminology.
• To learn about Christianity, it is also important to learn about some of the people who have played important roles in the development of Christian beliefs and Christian institutions. ...
• Collecting the holy scriptures of Christianity and Judaism, the Bible has become a central text in Wester history, culture, and rleigion Here youcan find detailed, indexed information about the Bible, including: history, authorship, contradictions, alleged Bible Codes, prophecies, critiques and more.
• Christianity and Mythology.
• Christianity and History.
• Without the figure of Jesus, Christianity doesn't make much sense - but who was he and what did he really have to say? Here you can find material on questions of Jesus' historicity, ethics, alleged resurrection and more.
• Many people regard Christianity as a religion of love, peace, and tolerance - but that isn't always the case. ... Learn about the extremists and extremism of Christianity.

• The EARLY SOURCES of CHRISTIANITY The fresco is "Transfiguration", (1440-41) by Fra Angelico. ...
• he purpose of this site is to provide a variety of source material on early Christianity. Though more and more books are dealing with Early Christianity, they all have their own biases. ... In my attempts to study the development of Christianity, finding the actual source material was often a problem. ...
• I recommend two books for aids in studying early Christianity: (1) "The Complete Gospels"(1992) Robert J. ...
• I am certain of only one thing as the result of my studies: Early Christianity was not a monolithic apostolic force. ...
• Because of the confusing and conflicting variety of teachings, Constantine started the system of Church Councils that eventually lead to the "standardization" of Christianity. ...
• Another important source of information about early Christianity is the Didache. ... The Didache is a First Century text and appears to reflect the traditions that developed into Christianity as we know it today. ...
• Non-Canonical and Early Christianity Related Links .

• THE POLITICS OF CHRISTIANITY: A TALK WITH ELAINE PAGELS.
• The kind of Christianity that pervades the religious right in this country divides the world between the saved and the damned, between God's people and Satan's people, between good and evil. ...
• What I've learned through studying the Gospel of Thomas and the context of the politics of early Christianity, is that anyone who participates in Christian tradition without having learned anything about it—and that's most people who participate in it, because it's not taught in public or private schools for the most part—often think of their traditions as immutable, as if they've just come down from God.
• We now see that Christianity, like Judaism, like Islam, is enormously diverse in its beginning and could have turned out very differently from what we see now. ...
• "What I've learned through studying the Gospel of Thomas and the context of the politics of early Christianity," she says, "is that anyone who participates in Christian tradition without having learned anything about it, and that's most people who participate in it, because it's not taught in public or private schools for the most part—often think of their traditions as immutable, as if they've just come down from God. ...
• Beliefs are overrated in Christianity. ...
• She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University and has published widely on Gnosticism and early Christianity.
• THE POLITICS OF CHRISTIANITY (Elaine Pagels:) For those of us who study the beginning of Western civilization, the field has been transformed by several recent discoveries. ...
• We now see that Christianity, like Judaism, like Islam, is enormously diverse in its beginning and could have turned out very differently from what we see now. ...
• But this and many other forms of Christianity were suppressed—by certain Christian leaders—to consolidate an extraordinarily diverse movement, and to attempt to ensure its survival. ...
• And it's no accident—and no surprise, when you think about it—that Irenaeus' kind of Christianity—authoritative, simple, hierarchical—is what many Christians, including many politically minded Christians, still declare is the "only true Christianity" today. ...
• But now, given these discoveries, we are rewriting the history of Christianity—and the history of western culture as a whole. ...
• What we now see is that what orthodox Christianity teachers taught—that Jesus was somehow God in human form—was by no means what Jesus taught, although some of his earliest followers taught that—the apostle Paul, for example. ...
• This gospel, then, and many others in the same find, suggest a kind of egalitarian, "do it yourself" Christianity, which bishops like Irenaeus decided was antithetical to his project of building a single, authoritative, "catholic church," outside of which, he insisted, "there is no salvation. " And after Christianity became the official religion of the Holy Roman Empire, the emperor endorsed the bishops' authority, along with the first official creed—the "Nicene creed," hammered out at a meeting of bishops convened by Constantine—and the books in the New Testament canon as the sole authority for divine truth.
• For example, they love a saying from the fourteenth chapter:"Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, except through me:" this "proves" that every other religion—and every other form of Christianity—is worthless.

• The Ecole Initiative A hypertext encyclopedia of early Christianity in its early stages; University of Illinois at Evansville Christianity in Gaza The Ecole Initiative A Chronology of the Arian Controversy The Ecole Initiative Dates of New Testament books FTP site Docetism The Ecole Initiative Early Christian Timeline to 199 A. ... Guide to Early Christian Documents on the Internet Lost Books of Early Christianity Pliny, Letter 10. ...

• These movements attempted to transcend the divisions of Protestant denominationalism, and to restore Christianity according to its original pattern. ...
• Restorationism sought to renew the whole Christian church, on the pattern set forth in the New Testament, without regard to the creeds developed over time in Catholicism or Protestantism, which allegedly kept Christianity divided. ...
• The Great Apostasy is a term used to describe a general fallen state of traditional Christianity, that it is not a legitimate successor to the church founded by Jesus Christ. ... Thus, restorationists can be compared to one another in their conviction that there has been an apostasy, a departure from essential Christianity so extensive and disastrous as to render futile any plan to remodel Christianity on existing foundations; necessitating a complete reconstruction, a restoration. ...
• Of these movements, the most optimistic about the then-present state of Christianity was the Restoration Movement, now commonly called the Campbellites or, Stone-Campbell Churches. ... They brought together many Presbyterians, Methodists, and other Christians across a spectrum of Evangelical Christianity, at first with astounding success. ...
• Less optimistic about the state of Christianity was the Latter Day Saint movement (Mormonism). The Latter Day Saints sought, as the Campbellites did, to restore original Christianity: but they considered the Great Apostasy to be such a disastrous consequence that a new prophet and apostle was required in order to restore God's Kingdom on earth. ...
• Later, the Millerites arose with an even less optimistic view of the state of not only Christianity, but the future of world civilization. ...
• But together, these groups typify an epoch in history, as radical in its implications for Christianity as the Protestant Reformation had been, and are still the fastest growing Christian sects in the world. ...

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