An estimated 75 million people worldwide belong to the Methodist community, however the number has gone into steady decline, especially in North America, where an increasing number of people are leaving the old-line churches to join theologically conservative denominations.

A recent phenomenon is that of conservative-minded groups in the PC ( USA ) ( such as the Confessing church movement ) remaining in the main body, rather than leaving to form new, break-away groups, as those most theologically conservative usually did ( e. g., the Presbyterian Church in America, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, and the Bible Presbyterian Church ).

Mennonites and the Amish, for example, are theologically conservative, however there are no overtly political organizations associated with these denominations.

Other churches in the area included First United Methodist and the theologically conservative Claiborne Southern Methodist Church.

Texarkana is the headquarters of the theologically conservative American Baptist Association, whose Missionary Baptist churches are most numerous in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.

Cooke was theologically conservative but progressive in secular matters.

It was the most theologically conservative of the forming bodies, having a heritage of Old Lutheran theology.

Although having a sizable conservative minority, most ELCA Lutherans are theologically moderate-to-liberal.

Some more theologically conservative MECS congregations dissenting from the merger formed the Southern Methodist Church in 1940.

Characterized as theologically conservative, it was founded in 1850 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The PCA is more socially and theologically conservative than the larger PC ( USA ).

The PCA is generally less theologically conservative than the Orthodox Presbyterian Church ( which split from mainline Presbyterianism much earlier ), but more conservative than the Evangelical Presbyterian Church ( which split from the mainline more recently ), though the differences can vary from presbytery to presbytery and even congregation to congregation.

The Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches is a theologically conservative fellowship of Brethren churches descended from the Schwarzenau Brethren movement of Alexander Mack of Germany.

Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary is a theologically conservative Presbyterian seminary in Greenville, South Carolina, United States.

However reaction against higher criticism in biblical scholarship and the influence of James Dwight Dana led him to become increasingly theologically conservative.

Some congregations were theologically in between the extremely conservative Old Order Amish and the more progressive conference Amish Mennonites.

Concordia Theological Seminary is theologically conservative, emphasizing study of the Bible and the Book of Concord.

Most of the earliest faculty held to theologically and socially conservative views, though professors with differing perspectives arrived in the 1960s and 1970s.

Given this scenario, many more of the remaining advocates may well defect to more conservative groups also, leaving the UCC as perhaps the U. S .' most politically and theologically liberal Christian group.

Avraham Gileadi is a Hebrew scholar and literary analyst who is considered theologically conservative.

From 1854 to 1891, Oettingen was professor of dogmatics at the University of Dorpat and, theologically, a typical representative of this ultra-orthodox and conservative Lutheran department.

The seminary is considered theologically conservative.

The Church of the Lutheran Confession ( CLC ) is a conservative Christian religious body theologically adhering to confessional Lutheran doctrine.

Increase Mather, then the president of Harvard, was theologically conservative, while a number of the directors had adopted moderate views, and in these years they began a struggle for control of the college.

After Sallmon left, the trustees hired Donald J. Cowling, another theologically liberal Yale Divinity School graduate, as his successor.

Postliberal theology was mostly inspired by people that had either taught or studied at Yale Divinity School, many influenced theologically by Karl Barth, Thomas Aquinas and to some extent, the nouvelle théologie of French Catholics such as Henri de Lubac.

Buechner's combination of literary style with approachable, universally applicable subject matter has, to many of his fans, revolutionized contemporary Christian literature: " In my view, Buechner is doing a distinctively new thing on the literary scene, writing novels that are theologically exciting without becoming propaganda, and doing theology with artistic style and imagination.

Though a minority of its yearly meetings ( New York, New England, Baltimore, Southeastern and Canada ) were also affiliated with Friends General Conference and over the decades became more theologically liberal and predominantly unprogrammed in worship style, the theological position of the majority of its constituent yearly meetings continues to be often similar in flavor to the Protestant Christian mainstream in Indiana and North Carolina.

A second German edition was published in 1913, containing theologically significant revisions and expansions: but this revised edition did not appear in English until 2001.

Historically, this proceeded from the labours of Jean de Launoy ( 1603 – 1678 ), " le dénicheur des saints ", and Louis Sébastien le Nain de Tillemont, who had shown the falsity of numerous lives of the saints ; while theologically it was produced by the Port Royal school, which led men to dwell more on communion with God as contrasted with the invocation of the saints.

The possibility of monarchy declining morally, overturning natural law, and degenerating into a tyranny oppressive of the general welfare was answered theologically with the Catholic concept of extra-legal tyrannicide, ideally ratified by the pope.

Jesus fully and in every way responded to the call of God and so the person of Jesus is theologically understood to be “ the divine Word in human form .” Jesus was not God-man in essence, but fully identified with God at all moments of life.

" Rabbi David Wolpe believes that the Second Coming was " grown out of genuine disappointment " and invented by Christians to theologically compensate for Jesus ' death.

While November 26 is the official date, theologically, the pontificate began in August when he was ordained as Bishop of Rome.

The Orthodox Church holds that it was illicit to add the phrase, and also objects to its content, although both Catholics and Orthodox have agreed that the formula " and through the Son ", articulated at the Council of Florence, is theologically unproblematic.

He is also a Doctor of the Church, most remembered theologically for issuing the Tome of Leo, a document which was foundational to the debates of the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon.

He embarked upon his magnum opus-Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Nova ( ut vocantur ) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio-which as well as a detailed account of his experiments on the vacuum, contains his pioneering electrostatic experiments in which electrostatic repulsion was demonstrated for the first time and sets out his theologically based view of the nature of Space.

Under Armstrong's leadership, the Worldwide Church of God was criticized by many to be theologically a cult with unorthodox and, to most Christians, heretical teachings.

And his criticism was that they arrived at theologically erroneous conclusions.

* American Unitarian Conference was founded in 2000 by several Unitarian Universalists who felt that the Unitarian Universalist Association had become too liberal, both theologically and politically

It was thus as radical politically and philosophically, as it was theologically.

In 1988, a number of UCC congregations separated from the national church, which they felt was moving away theologically and in practice from Biblical Christianity.

In his day and time he was influential on theologically forward thinking pastors and theologians.

Although both logically unassailable and consistent with a literal reading of Scripture, Omphalos was rejected at the time by scientists on the grounds that it was completely unfalsifiable and by theologians because it implied to them a deceitful God, which they found theologically unacceptable.

While Hutchinson took a leading role as the chief antagonist of the orthodox party, theologically it was Cotton's differences of opinion with the other ministers in Massachusetts that was at the heart of the controversy.

Having roots in the Dutch Reformed churches of the Netherlands, the Christian Reformed Church was founded by Gijsbert Haan and Dutch immigrants who left the Reformed Church in America in 1857 and is theologically Calvinist .< ref name = about >