The first is from John Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious.

Peter Gay places the zenith of deism " from the end of the 1690s, when the vehement response to John Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious ( 1696 ) started the deist debate, to the end of the 1740s when the tepid response to Conyers Middleton's Free Inquiry signalled its close.

In Toland's first book Christianity not Mysterious ( 1696 ), he argued that the divine revelation of the Bible contains no true mysteries ; rather, all the dogmas of the faith can be understood and demonstrated by properly trained reason from natural principles.

After Christianity Not Mysterious, Toland's views became gradually more radical.

At the time when he wrote Christianity not Mysterious he was careful to distinguish himself from both skeptical atheists and orthodox theologians.

However, David Berman has argued for an atheistic reading of Toland, demonstrating contradictions between Christianity not Mysterious and Toland's Two Essays ( London, 1695 ).

After his Christianity not Mysterious, Toland's " Letters to Serena " constitute his major contribution to philosophy.

Still, in Christianity not Mysterious, the book for which he is best known, Toland laid down a challenge not just to the authority of the established church, but to all inherited and unquestioned authority.

* An Apology for Mr. Toland ( 1697 ) ( concerning Toland's earlier Christianity Not Mysterious ).

( This pamphlet was another defence of Christianity Not Mysterious, this time against one specific attack.

* Heindel, Max ( 1909 ) The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception or Christian Occult Science, An Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development Independent Book Company, Chicago, OCLC 7466633 ; full text of updated version entitled ' The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception or Mystic Christianity, An Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development from The Rosicrucian Fellowship

He also produced some highly controversial polemics, including the Treatise of the Three Impostors, in which Christianity, Judaism and Islam are all condemned as the three great political frauds.

In their utopias of social engineering, early socialistic thinkers such as Auguste Comte ( Treatise on Sociology Instituting the Religion of Humanity 1851-54 ) and Henri de Saint-Simon ( New Christianity 1825 ) envisaged a new secular ( or " scientific ") belief-system, analogous to a religion, which would unite the people humanely, and ensure social cohesion.

Many who side with this view disagree that Luke portrays Christianity or the Roman Empire as harmless and thus reject the apologetic view because “ Acts does not present Christians as politically harmless or law abiding for there are a large number of public controversies concerning Christianity, particularly featuring Paul .” For example, to support this view Cassidy references how Paul is accused of going against the Emperor because he is “ saying that there is another king named Jesus .” ( Acts 17: 7 ) Furthermore, there are multiple examples of Paul ’ s preaching causing uprisings in various cities ( Acts 14: 2 ; 14: 19 ; 16: 19-23 ; 17: 5 ; 17: 13-14 ; 19: 28-40 ; 21: 27 ).

Though there are many important differences of interpretation and opinion of the Bible on which Christianity is based, Christians share a set of beliefs that they hold as essential to their faith.

Criticism of Christianity continues to date, e. g. Jewish and Muslim theologians criticize the doctrine of the Trinity held by most Christians, stating that this doctrine in effect assumes that there are three Gods, running against the basic tenet of monotheism.

A link is often assumed, yet there is no reference made to Jesus Christ or Christianity or any other specific religion.

While members of the Christian Science church claim their religion is based in, reconcilable with, and part of Christianity ( being based on the teachings of Jesus ), there are orthodox Christian theologians and others who disagree.

In despair he resolved to pass on by way of Arbon to Bregenz on Lake Constance, where there were still some traces of Christianity.

More detailed versions place Jerusalem in Christianity | Jerusalem at the center of the world. Christendom is a place that there are lots of christians that are inside the country

Judaism and Christianity share the belief that there is One, True God, who is the only one worthy to be worshipped.

However, within the wide range of Christianity, there are dissenting views from opposing groups, some of which are Complementarians and Patriarchalists.

The islands were converted to Christianity around the year 1000, with the Diocese of the Faroe Islands based at Kirkjubøur, southern Streymoy, of which there were 33 Catholic bishops.

Finally, there was a more pronounced conflict between Christianity and socialism in the north.

Meanwhile there is definite evidence of grimoires being used by certain, particularly Gnostic sects of early Christianity ; in the Book of Enoch found within the Dead Sea Scrolls for instance, there is various information on astrology and the angels.

In precise adjunct to accurately focus the late Flew's stated position, Flew has concluded his book, There Is A God, wherein he credits Gerald Schroeder at length, with these final words: " I am very much impressed the case for Christianity ... Is it possible that there can be divine revelation?

While much of the attempt at gender equity in mainstream Christianity ( Judaism never recognized any gender for God ) is aimed at reinterpreting scripture and degenderizing language used to name and describe the divine ( Ruether, 1984 ; Plaskow, 1991 ), there are a growing number of people who identify as Christians or Jews who are trying to integrate goddess imagery into their religions ( Kien, 2000 ; Kidd 1996 ," Goddess Christians Yahoogroup ").

His missionary activity there is described in Galatians, and subsequent early Christianity which reveals the Gauls as quickly friendly toward the new religion adopting it in large numbers.

Partly as a result of these factors, some scholars have identified a distinctive form of Celtic Christianity, in which abbots were more significant than bishops, attitudes to clerical celibacy were more relaxed and there was some significant differences in practice with Roman Christianity, particularly the form of tonsure and the method of calculating Easter, although most of these issues had been resolved by the mid-seventh century.

The predominant religion was Christianity, but there was even a huge Jewish community ( mainly in Cyrenaica ).

When Keller was young, Anne Sullivan introduced her to Phillips Brooks, who introduced her to Christianity, Keller famously saying: " I always knew He was there, but I didn't know His name!

He terms this early enthusiasm `` Romantic Christianity '' and concludes that its similarity to democratic beliefs of that day is so great that `` the doctrine of liberty seems but a secular version of its counterpart in evangelical Protestantism ''.

We find it in that `` common way of life pleasing to Christ and still in use among the truest societies of Christians '', that is, the better monasteries which made it easier to convert the Utopians to Christianity.

And he wanted to be careful that the kids not only learn about Communist but also about what he feels is the only antidote -- a Biblically strong Christianity.

This is not to say that the only explanation of the present infatuation with Norman Vincent Peale's `` cult of reassurance '' or the other types of a purely cultural Christianity is the ever-present need for a demythologized gospel.

Whenever New England liberalism is reminded of the dramatic confrontation of Parker and the fraternity on January 23, 1843 -- while it may defend the privilege of Chandler Robbins to demand that Parker leave the Association, while it may plead that Dr. N. L. Frothingham had every warrant for stating, `` The difference between Trinitarians and Unitarians is a difference in Christianity ; ;

the difference between Mr. Parker and the Association is a difference between no Christianity and Christianity '' -- despite these supposed conclusive assurances, the modern liberal heaves repeatedly a sigh of relief, of positive thanksgiving, that the Association never quite brought itself officially to expel Parker.

Colonialism alone would have been able to make these difficulties serious, for Christianity is so closely tied to colonialism in the minds of these people that repudiation of the one has tended automatically toward the repudiation of the other.

Even more of an obstacle is the difficulty of separating the influence of Christianity from other factors.

What we can attempt with some hope of dependable conclusions is to point out the manner in which Christianity entered into particular aspects of the life of the nation.

It is Field Marshal Montgomery's belief that in most Western countries about 60 per cent of the people do not really care about democracy or Christianity ; ;

* Earliest day on which Ascension Day can fall, while June 3 is the latest ; celebrated 40 days after Easter ( Christianity ), and its related observances

In Western Christianity, this day is observed principally in the Catholic Church, although some churches of Anglican Communion and the Old Catholic Churches also celebrate it.

The word abbot, meaning father, is a title given to the head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity.

This article is intended to present facts related to the role and history associated with abbots in Christianity.

Many religions, whether they believe in the soul's existence in another world like Christianity, Islam and many pagan belief systems, or in reincarnation like many forms of Hinduism and Buddhism, believe that one's status in the afterlife is a reward or punishment for their conduct during life.

It should be noted that the Book of Enoch is considered apocryphal by most denominations of Christianity and all denominations of Judaism.

Anglicanism is a tradition within Christianity comprising churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures.

Ousia is essence or being, in Eastern Christianity, and is the aspect of God that is completely incomprehensible to mankind and human perception.

Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius ( 1560 – 1609 ) and his historic supporters known as the Remonstrants and is known as a soteriological sect of Protestant Christianity.