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• Christianity .
• In The Gnostic Gospels, author Elaine Pagels suggests that Christianity could have developed quite differently if Gnostic texts had become part of the Christian canon. ...
• In Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas Pagels, best know for her National Book Award-winning The Gnostic Gospels, wrestles with her own faith as she struggles to understand when--and why--Christianity became associated almost exclusively with the ideas codified in the fourth-century N.
• Psychologists and inspirational speakers Cloud and Townsend show readers how to set reasonable boundaries in order to follow the true path of Christianity. ...
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• In Christianity, Sabellianism (also known as modalism) is the second-century belief that the three persons of the Trinity are merely different modes or aspects of God, rather than three distinct persons. ...
• Today, Sabellianism is rejected by most types of Christianity. ...

• Since Buddhism in China is well addressed and documented on the internet, it is our intention to focus on another religion in China, namely, Christianity. Christianity was introduced into China as early as the 5th century. ... Since the Communist took power in 1949, Christianity have been growing steadily against the oppressions of the government. ...
• History of Christianity.
• Christianity and Chinese writing Comparing Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.
• How to Identify Cults from Christianity.

• Thursday, 6 September, 2001, 12:11 GMT 13:11 UK Christianity 'almost vanquished in UK'.
• Christianity has been "all but eliminated" as a source of moral guidance in people's lives, according to the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. ...
• "In our countries in Britain today, especially in England and Wales, that Christianity, as a sort of backdrop to people's lives and moral decisions - and to the government, the social life of the country - has now almost been vanquished," the Archbishop said. ...
• Is Christianity still relevant in today's society?.

• " The principle was as old as state Christianity, established in Armenia and in the Roman Empire by Emperor Constantine. ...
• In Visigothic Spain, the rulers and the bishops they appointed were Arians, while most of the population had converted to Catholic Christianity in the 4th century. ...

• The term theology originated in Christianity, but it can also be used to refer to the study of the beliefs of any other religion or to the contrasting of different religions, a field more usually termed "comparative religion. ...
• In Eastern Christianity, there is more emphasis on prayer than on intellectual thought and study as a means to learn about God. ...
• In Christianity all of the above subjects are covered, as well as these: .

• In 409 or 410 Synesius, whose Christianity had until then been by no means very pronounced, was popularly chosen to be bishop of Ptolemais, and, after long hesitation on personal and doctrinal grounds, he ultimately accepted the office thus thrust upon him, being consecrated by Theopbilus at Alexandria. ...
• His many-sided activity, as shown especially in his letters, and his loosely mediating position between Neoplatonism and Christianity, make him a subject of fascinating interest. ...

• Images from around the globe as two of the world's major religions, Judaism and Christianity, celebrate important holidays .
• com follows John Paul II on his historic tour of Christianity's holiest sites .
• Christianity: The Servant Church.
• Admission to the priesthood is just one prickly issue raised by feminism, as gender equality becomes the most vexing thorn in the side of Christianity.
• Christianity may be headed for extinction in the lands of its birth.
• The quest to evangelize China for Christianity has received a secret boost — from American tourists.
• A new book claims that Christianity, not just bad Christians, is to blame for persecution of the Jews.

• The Baltic peoples continued to resist conversion to Christianity, and after defeat by pagan forces in 1260, Mindaugas renounced Christianity. ...

• Christianity .
• Christianity started as a Messianic orientation in Judaism, which in this encyclopaedia is called Jesus-Judaism. ...
• Christianity is a religion based upon the belief that the Bible contains a divine message and that Jesus (dead between 25 and 40 CE) represents a change in the relationship between man and God. ...
• As Christianity sees it, the Old Testament contains the promise of a Jesus as the Messiah. ...
• The actual understanding of Messiah was, however, is different in Christianity. ...
• The third group of myths belong to the period when Christianity had established itself as a religion. ...
• There are also many myths about ascetics, men or women who devoted themselves entirely to Christianity, and sometimes moved to inhospitable places, like into the desert, and who still managed to survive. ...
• There are many holy places for Christianity in Middle East. ...
• This develops into an important centre for the development of eastern Orthodox Christianity. ...
• For a period deep into the 20th century, Christianity becomes the politically dominant (if not largest) religion for this region. There was minimal persecution from Christian side, and very few conversions from Islam to Christianity.

• Christianity and anti-Semitism.
• Some historians and many Jews hold that for most of its history, most of Christianity was openly anti-Semitic and that the severity, type and extent of this anti-Semitism have varied much over time; the earliest form was theological anti-Judaism. ...
• 11 Current attempts to convert Jews to Christianity.
• Christianity began as a branch of Judaism. ...
• It is evident that Paul saw himself as a Jew, but other Jews rejected this abstract universalism; after Paul's death, Christianity emerged as a separate religion, and Pauline Christianity emerged as the dominant form of Christianity, especially after Paul, James and the other apostles agreed on a compromise set of requirements (Acts 15). ...
• Arguments by Jesus and his disciples against the Pharisees were almost certainly examples of disputes among Jews and internal to Judaism that were common at the time (Lutheran Pastor John Stendahl has pointed out that "Christianity begins as a kind of Judaism, and we must recognize that words spoken in a family conflict are inappropriately appropriated by those outside the family. ...
• At the same time that the Pharisees came to represent Judaism as a whole, Christianity came to seek, and attract, more non-Jewish converts than Jewish converts. Within a hundred years or so the majority of Christians were non-Jews without any significant knowledge of Judaism (although until about 1000, there was an active Jewish component of Christianity). ...
• These scholars observe that the portrait of the Pharisees in the Gospels is strikingly different from that provided in Rabbinic sources, and suggest that New Testament Pharisees are a caricature and literary foil for Christianity. ... " But once Christianity was established as the religion of the Empire, and Christians enjoyed political domination over Europe, this caricature could be used to incite or justify oppression of Jews. ...
• These writings were directed at Christians who were being proselytized by Jews and who Ephraim feared were slipping back into the religion of Judaism; thus he portrayed the Jews as enemies of Christianity, like Satan, to emphasize the contrast between the two religions, namely, that Christianity was Godly and true and Judaism was Satanic and false. ...
• In his Dialog of Justin, Philosopher and Martyr, with Trypho, a Jew, the Christian scholar Justin Martyr advanced arguments for the truth of Christianity and wrote to his imaginary Jewish opponent: "You think that these words refer to the stranger and the proselytes, but in fact they refer to us who have been illumined by Jesus. ...
• Martin Luther, founder of Protestant Christianity, was at first very friendly towards the Jews, believing that the evils of Catholicism had prevented their conversion to Christianity. When he discovered that Jews did not find the Protestant form of Christianity any more congenial, he became very hostile to them instead and preached, in his book On the Jews and their Lies, that they were "venomous beasts, vipers, disgusting scum, canders, devils incarnate. ...
• Many of these quotes turn out to be partly or completely fabricated by people seeking to discredit Christianity. ...
• All Jews in their territory were compelled to convert to Christianity or flee the country. ...

• The Christian cross is a familiar religious symbol of most Christianity. ...
• During the first three centuries of Christianity, the cross was rare in Christian iconography, although descriptions of it are found in Christian writings from the early 2nd century onwards. ...
• In Christianity, the cross represents Christ's victory over death and sin, since it is believed that through His death he conquered death itself. ...
• (Cruciform symbols do antedate Christianity; see cross for more information. ...

• Early Christianity and Mormonism Page.
• Early Christianity/Mormonism Articles .
• This page is dedicated to the comparison of Early Christianity and Mormonism (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). ...
• However, the historical study of early Christianity was really in its infancy at the time Smith claimed to receive his revelations, so merely copying what was known about the early Church at that time to set up his own church would have been pointless. ...
• It's Here! My new book, Restoring the Ancient Church: Joseph Smith and Early Christianity, is now available for purchase. ...
• "I have been interested in the comparison of Mormonism and early Christianity for many years, and I've been waiting for a book like this for just as long. ...
• "Studying early Christianity has clarified my understanding of the apostasy and deepened my appreciation for the latter-day restoration. ...
• Early Christianity/Mormonism Articles .
• Shows how Christological controversies in early Christianity shaped the present form of the New Testament canon. ...
• The Nature of God and the Origin and Destiny of Man - This is a 10 page essay showing that various LDS beliefs about the nature of God and the nature of mankind show up in the earliest forms of Christianity, while the corresponding doctrines in mainstream Christianity were later developments based on the wholesale adoption of pagan Greek philosophical tenets. ...
• "Orthodox" Christian Esoteric Rites - Find out what these esoteric rites were like in the "orthodox" branches of early Christianity. ...
• Gnostic Christian Esoteric Rites - Such rituals also survived for a time in various branches of "gnostic" Christianity. ...
• The Word of Wisdom in Early Christianity? - A reader asked whether anything resembling the Word of Wisdom be found in early Christianity. ...
• Discusses polygamy, the esoteric teaching of early Christianity vs. ...
• Early Christianity and Mormonism .
• Michael Griffith's "Real Issues" Homepage - His LDS information page has some articles about Mormonism and early Christianity. ...

•   Christianity In Japan.
• 1612 Shogunate issues directives aimed at restricting Christianity .
• 1614   Ban on Christianity extended nationwide. ...
• 1629   Fumie for testing beleif in Christianity begins in Nagasaki .
• Christianity was introduced into Japan in the middle of the 16th century. ... When relations with the west were restored in the middle of the 19th century, Christianity was reintroduced and has continued to exist in Japan with varying fortunes. ...
• By this time Christianity had attracted the attention of National figures. ...
• More significantly, the shogunate was on the alert for any coalition of disaffected elements that might threaten its hegemony, and Christianity was viewed as a possible catalyst. ...
• Missionary teacher in the Meiji period( 1868-1912) were often regarded as representatives of a superior civilization, and Christianity was popularly identified with the West. This tendency was opposed by Uchimura Kanzo the founder of Mukyokai or Nonchurch Christianity. In his later years Uchimura refused to be identified with any particular church insisting on the need for a " Japanese Christianity" untainted by western influences. ...
• The churches have also sponsored a variety of social and medical projects, such as hospitals sanatoriums, leprosariums, and orphanages; the popular image of Christianity is often associated with such work. ...
• The social upheaval and disillusionment caused by the nation's defeat prompted many Japanese to turn to Christianity to find some meaning in their lives. ... Christianity Today.
• At present Christianity in Japan is characterized by unobtrusive activity, with emphasis still placed on education as a means of spreading the gospel message. ...
• In popular estimation Christianity is still regarded as a " foreign" creed, preaching admirable ideal but unsuitable for ordinary Japanese. ... Apart from the Nagasaki region Christianity has yet to make any appreciable impact on rural communities; it draws it's strength from the urban, professional classes. ...

• Volume XXVIII, Number 2 (Winter 1998: Special Issue on Christianity and Environmentalism) Table of Contents .
• Volume XXVI, Number 4 (Summer 1997: Theme Issue on Christianity and Homosexuality) Table of Contents .
• Volume XXVI, Number 2 (Winter 1996: Special Issue on Christianity and Postmodernity) Table of Contents .
• Volume XXV, Number 4 (June 1996: Theme Issue on Christianity and Multiculturalism) Table of Contents .
• Volume XXIV, Number 2 (December 1994: Theme Issue on Christianity and Economics) .

• Christianity outstripping Islam worldwide.
• 11 is that Islam is growing so rapidly it soon will become the world's largest religion, overtaking Christianity in just a couple of decades.
• " But a new book about Christianity in the Third World says Huntington and others are missing the global demographic picture.
• ___Islam is indeed expanding as Christianity loses its force in the Western world, particularly Europe, says historian and religious studies scholar Philip Jenkins, author of "The Next Christendom. ...
• 11 commentaries have overlooked the dramatic upsurge of Christianity in places like Africa.
• But he sees Islam as facing off in the future not primarily with Western Christianity, but with Christian countries in the developing world.
• Based on these trends, he sees Christianity keeping its massive lead in the foreseeable future. ...
• ___"Everyone knows--quote, unquote--that Christianity was taken to places like Africa by missionaries and then presumably when imperialism ended, then Christianity died with it. ...
• ___It might be more accurate to say southern hemisphere Christianity came into its own only after Western colonial powers packed up and left in the 1950s and 1960s.
• It's after the Roman Empire falls that Christianity really takes off big time in Europe. ... It's after the British, the French and the Belgians leave that Christianity takes off. ...

• True, but let's make sure we explain why the Romans felt that the persecution was valid -- Christianity was considered a threat to Rome because the refusal to honor (not believe in) the Roman gods could bring the wrath of the gods down upon Rome. ...
• There was also at least one case, I think in Ephesus, recorded in which the statue makers or silversmiths saw Christianity as an economic threat, and therefore tried to get the authorities to arrest the leading Christians on trumped up charges. ...
• Conflicts within mainline Protestant denominations Forces of Schism within Christianity .
• I do think you are raising a more profound question, what is the difference between disagreeing and attacking? Can I disagree with Christianity/Christians without "persecuting" them? I think so, and I think we can establish criteria for telling the difference. ...
• Augustine's writings have always been viewed with skepticism by Eastern Christianity, and Tertullian ended his life formally denounced as a heretic, an adherent of Montanism. ...
• I really don't think those arguments are a special pleading when used by Eastern Christianity, because those two haven't been particularly influential in the East. ...
• But, in their Christian sense, the remarks are not in the slightest contrary to Eastern Christianity, or peculiar to the West: even if the authors of them are not equally admired in the East and the West. ...
• Mightn't the subject be worthy of a separate article? It's a complex topic, and what's there right now doesn't really do it justice: persecution of Christians was (at first) only a small part of the Romans' persecution of other "detestable superstitions" (as Tacitus called Christianity), including Manicheaism and some of the weirder Hellenistic mystery cults. ...
• Such action is consistent with how Christians are treated by Muslims in Egypt, where they are regularly imprisoned simply for practicing Christianity. What other "multi-cultural societies" in the region are suffering without mention? Regardless, if Christians are being targeted primarily because they are Christians or because they are trying to practice Christianity, then the accounts should remain. ...
• " while "Christian persecutions" (to give another example) can be understood as something sanctioned by Christianity. ...

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• Pilot reportedly promoted Christianity on flight.
• Christianity.
• Kincaid said the pilot, whose name was not released, reportedly asked Christian passengers to raise their hands before suggesting that the other passengers should discuss Christianity with those passengers. ...

• King is Professor of New Testament Studies and the History of Ancient Christianity at Harvard University in the Divinity School. She has published widely in the areas of Gnosticism, ancient Christianity, and Women's Studies. ...
• In the last twenty years, the history of women in ancient Christianity has been almost completely revised. ... Now we are learning more of the many women who contributed to the formation of Christianity in its earliest years. ...
• Chief among these is Mary Magdalene, a woman infamous in Western Christianity as an adulteress and repentant whore. ...
• These groups did not own church buildings but met in homes, no doubt due in part to the fact that Christianity was not legal in the Roman world of its day and in part because of the enormous expense to such fledgling societies. ...
• In a situation where Romans sought to use their violence against her body as a witness to their power and justice, and where the Christian editor of her story sought to turn her death into a witness to the truth of Christianity, her own writing lets us see the human being caught up in these political struggles. ...
• These elements also provide an important location for discussing some aspects of early Christian women's spiritual lives: their exercise of leadership, their ideals, their attraction to Christianity, and what gave meaning to their self-identity as Christians.
• Every variety of ancient Christianity that advocated the legitimacy of women's leadership was eventually declared heretical, and evidence of women's early leadership roles was erased or suppressed.
• " Plus, more commentary from Biblical Scholars on the role of women in early Christianity. ...
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• 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.
• There's an assumption that Christianity's worldwide influence is waning, as Islam's influence—especially in the political sphere—grows. ... In his article in the October Atlantic, "The Next Christianity," (and in his recent book, The Next Christendom), Jenkins argues that Americans are all but unaware of what is one of the most important shifts of the twentieth century—the explosive growth of Christianity in the Southern Hemisphere.
• The Christianity practiced in Africa, Latin America, and Asia tends to be much more rigidly conservative and traditional than that of the North, and its practitioners are often guided by a strong belief in the power of the supernatural to directly shape their lives. ... The places where Christianity is spreading and mutating are also places where the population levels are rising quickly—and, if Jenkins's predictions hold true—will continue to rise throughout the next century. ...
• That demographic future puts Christianity on a collision course with Islam. ...
• For someone who isn't familiar with Christianity as it's practiced in the Southern Hemisphere, how would you define it? In general terms, how does it differ from the ways that Christianity tends to be practiced in the North? .
• In many parts of the global South, Christianity is a much newer religion than it is in Europe or North America. ... Of course, Christianity has been in South America for a long time, but the kind of Pentecostal and Protestant Christianity that's come in over the last fifty years is obviously a newer kind of experience. So in some cases these are families that are discovering the Bible and Christianity for the first time, and it seems to be a new and rather intoxicating experience.
• It's sometimes called Charismatic Christianity, and often involves a belief in trances, visions, and dreams. Pentecostal Christianity also has an impact on the edges of Catholicism—these are ideas that make sense across the denominational boundaries.
• What is it about Christianity that makes it so adaptable to new conditions and new places? Is Christianity more adaptable than, say, Islam or Hinduism or Buddhism?.
• The great competitors are Christianity and Islam—no other religion comes close. ... Christianity operates in a different way, which is that it validates all languages as ones in which you can transmit the scriptures. I think that may be why Christianity is ahead, because by translating, by always putting the scriptures into new languages, it encourages literacy, it encourages the vernacular. ...

• Mormonism and Christianity.
• Mormonism has had an uneasy relationship with traditional Christianity from the day circa 1820 when Joseph Smith Jr. ...
• By 1830, Smith had also claimed to receive visits from angels who gave him new scripture (The Book of Mormon) and the sole priesthood authority on earth, restoring the "true" Christianity of the early Church. ...
• At times this conflict turned violent, complicating the relationship that Mormons have with traditional Christianity. ...
• However, as Mormonism from its beginning rejected the traditional churches, including all their sacraments, history, creeds, and debates, so various Christian churches and movements have adopted stances of regarding Mormonism as a heretical or apostate form of Christianity, a departure from the Christian faith, or more pejoratively, a cult. ...
• As the movement has grown and gained worldwide fame, some denominations within the movement, such as the Community of Christ, have attempted to respond to charges through extensive ecumenical efforts, including engagement in dialog with Christianity and sometimes even relinquishing their earlier doctrines and practices. ...
• 4 History of Latter Day Saint Dialogue with Mainstream Christianity.
• 1 Early Latter Day Saint Antagonism Toward Christianity.
• It is currently common to hear Mormonism accused of believing in "a different Jesus" than traditional Christianity. ... But many of the Christian creeds have enjoyed a general consensus among Christians for many centuries, and for those who believe what they teach, they have come to represent a litmus test for recognizing genuine and false Christianity. ...
• In Mormonism, like in traditional Christianity, Jesus Christ is considered to be the Messiah, the Savior, the son of God and of the virgin Mary. ...
• For example, unlike traditional Christianity, in Mormonism Jesus, the Son, is distinct from the Father not just in "person", but also is a separate being. ...
• Some Latter Day Saint churches such as the Community of Christ have chosen to adopt some of the creeds of orthodox Christianity. ...
• Even those favorable toward Mormonism have sincere difficulty because through years of separation from traditional Christianity, Mormonism has indeed evolved a different dialect of Christian terminology. ...
• Most likely meaning in Mormonism or LDS Church Term Most likely meaning in traditional Christianity .
• In contrast, much of traditional Christianity has become increasingly ecumenical, with the different churches accepting each other's sacraments and seeking to harmonize differences. ...

• These are large churches, frequently defined as having more than 2,000 worshippers for a typical weekly service, seen as a new phenomenon in Christianity. ...
• While large churches with buildings for large numbers of worshippers have existed throughout the history of Christianity, these large churches usually existed to accommodate pilgrimage sites and other throngs of non-local worshippers. ...

• Christianity .
• Christianity was, we are told, first brought into India only a few decades after the passing away of Lord Christ. ... Thomas who is popularly believed to have introduced Christianity into India around the 1st century of our era. Thus Christianity seems to have come into India far before it had reached many European countries like Britain and Germany.
• In talking of Christianity one generally loses sight of the fact that it was born in Asia and thus to begin with it is an oriental religion. ...
• But Christianity and Christians were not a distinct religion different from Judaism. ...
• Incorporation of Christianity as the Roman State Religion.
• The next step was taken after the nominal conversion of the Roman Emperor Constantine to Christianity following the conversion of most of the Roman laity to the new religion. ...
• Roman Influences on Christianity.
• But in driving this wedge the influence of the Roman empire should not be lost sight of as after the conversion of the Roman Royal family followed by the Roman nobility and finally the remaining Roman laity to Christianity. ... From then onwards Christians and Christianity became synonymous with Europe and Europeans.
• Christianity in India 40 years after Christ.
• But as mentioned earlier in this chapter, Christianity originally came to India before it reached many of the West European Christian countries of today. ... But these early attempts to introduce Christianity into the country could make any major dent. ...
• Thomas to Christianity all Indians might have been like (the prototype) Syrian Christian Community - Christian yet specifically national. ...
• Portuguese Bring Christianity (as Catholicism) into Goa.

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• 'Anti-Christianity' and Who-Hates-Who? - An essay on Christian hate. ...
• Christianity - Bogus Beyond Belief - "This web site examines Christian beliefs with a skeptical eye. ...
• Christianity Meme - Christianity is a highly evolved meme (life form that lives in the minds of people). ... Those infected with the Christianity Meme are prone to certain kinds of immoral behavior. ...
• Falacy of Christianity - Examining the fallacies, misinterpretations and misinformation found in Christian religion. ...
• Forgery in Christianity - "A documented record of the foundation of Christianity. ...
• Jesus is Savior - Claims that the pure spirit of Christianity, as expressed in the King James Bible, has been corrupted by everyone from the Catholic Church to Billy Graham. ...
• The Selfishness of Christianity - A newly defined phenomenon is explained as the reason why so many believe in Christianity and religion in general. ...
• Skeptics Corner - A skeptic's commentary about the Bible and Christianity compiled from the works of scholars. ...
• Truth Be Known by Acharya S - Critical examination of various aspects of Christianity and religion in general. ...
• Yeshua/Jesus and Judaism versus Paul and Christianity - An argument that the Apostle Paul was a maverick who did not found the true Church. ...
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