This article incorporates text from the entry Demiurgus in A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines by William Smith and Henry Wace ( 1877 ), a publication now in the public domain.

A more positive use of the term in Britain came to be used with the writings of James Elishama Smith, who was a millenarian and a Christian Israelite.

This movement was founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. beginning in the 1820s as a form of Christian primitivism.

During production of this work in mid-1829, Smith, his close associate Oliver Cowdery, and other early followers began baptizing new converts into a Christian primitivist church, formally organized in 1830 as the Church of Christ.

" By 1830, Smith reported that he had been instructed that God would use him to re-establish the true Christian church and that the Book of Mormon would be the means of establishing correct doctrine for the restored church.

Mormons believe that God re-established the early Christian Church as found in the New Testament through the agency of Joseph Smith.

More recent prominent sociologists of religion include Peter L. Berger, Robert N. Bellah, Thomas Luckmann, Rodney Stark, Robert Wuthnow, Christian Smith, and Bryan R. Wilson.

* Smith, Jeremy Adam, 2007, Living in the Gap: The Ideal and Reality of the Christian Right Family.

* Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian Christian leader and founder of Brunstad Christian Church

" Along with his close friend Jonathan Z. Smith, Mack is active in the Redescribing Christian Origins Group of the Society of Biblical Literature.

* Wace, Henry and William Smith, A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines, J. Murray, 1882.

* Paul Smith ( Christian music performer ), Contemporary Christian Music performer and songwriter

In 1993, Mullins assembled a group of Nashville musicians ( including Jimmy Abegg, Beaker, Billy Crockett, Phil Madeira, Rick Elias, and Aaron Smith ) to form A Ragamuffin Band, whose name was inspired by the Christian book The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning.

The church was subsequently without an organ for more than a century and a quarter during Puritan days, until Christian Smith was engaged to build one in 1717.

Some other titles, such as Canon, may be used together with the Christian name or both names, for example, Canon John or Canon John Smith.

Male Christian priests are usually addressed as Father or, for example, as Father John or Father Smith.

Smith ( Public ), Walker ( Public-Magnet ), Tampa Day School ( private-Nonsectarian ), Citrus Park Christian School ( Private-Baptist ) and Hope Christian School ( Private-Boarding-Baptist ).

Saturday nights feature popular entertainment, including appearances by Johnny Mathis, Ronan Tynan, Linda Eder, the Beach Boys, comedian Bill Cosby, and Christian rock stars such as Michael W. Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman, Nichole Nordeman, Hillsong United and Sonic Flood.

* 1844-German Ludwig Krapf begins work in Mombasa on the Kenya Coast ; first Young Men's Christian Association ( YMCA ) formed by George Williams ; George Smith and Thomas McClatchie sail for China as the first two CMS missionaries to that country

Michael Whitaker Smith ( born October 7, 1957 ) is an American contemporary Christian musician, who has charted primarily in the contemporary Christian and occasionally in the mainstream charts.

The winner for 2007 was Peter L. Smith for Emergence 1: The Transfiguration ( 2006 ), a wall installation from white cable ties knitted together forming a circle on the ground and growing up the adjacent wall into a widening fan shape.

Image: Emergence_1_The_Transfiguration. JPG | Peter L. Smith, Emergence 1: The Transfiguration ( 2006 )-2007 winner

Smith made the contacts, with the deal being cut by a group of Russian terrorists known as the Russian Liberation Fighters.

Some of the larger names include Duane Pederson, Jack Sparks, who led the Christian World Liberation Front, as well as Lonnie Frisbee, who worked for a time along with Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel movement.

* Dreyer, Thorne and Victoria Smith ( 1969 ), " The Movement and the New Media ," Liberation News Service.

* Dreyer, Thorne and Victoria Smith ( 1969 ), " The Movement and the New Media ," Liberation News Service ".

Smith, two volumes, Yale University, 1976 Liberation magazine, January 1936, New York City Library

*" The Movement and the New Media ," by Thorne Dreyer and Victoria Smith, Liberation News Service, March 1, 1969.

The Black Liberation Army members ; including Jeral Wayne Williams ( aka Mutulu Shakur ), Donald Weems ( aka Kuwasi Balagoon ), Samuel Smith, Nathaniel Burns ( aka Sekou Odinga ), Cecilio " Chui " Ferguson, Samuel Brown ( aka Solomon Bouines ) were also all eventually captured by 1986 and sentenced to long prison terms.

Some of the cases include ; Robert F. Kennedy, Sharon Tate, Brian Jones, The Symbionese Liberation Army shootout, John F. Kennedy, The Legionnaires ’ Disease panic, Elvis Presley, JonBenét Ramsey, Dr. Herman Tarnower ( the Scarsdale diet guru ), Danielle van Dam, Sunny von Bülow, the Branch Davidian incident, Vincent Foster, Laci Peterson and most recently Daniel and Anna Nicole Smith.

This included the Patty Hearst trial, the Sirhan Sirhan trial, the Charles Manson trial, the trials of the Black Panthers, including Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver and David Hilliard, the trials of Angela Davis and Ruchell Magee, and the trials of the Soledad Brothers, the San Quentin Six, Mass Murderer Juan Corona, John Linley Frazier, the Presidio Mutiny Court-Martial at Fort Ord, the Billy Dean Smith Court-Martial, Inez Garcia ( second trial ), Bill and Emily Harris ( Symbionese Liberation Army ), Russell Little and Joseph Remiro ( Murder of Marcus Foster / Symbionese Liberation Army ), Wendy Yoshimura, Camarillo State Hospital Grand Jury Hearings, the Hell's Angels, Alioto-Look Magazine Libel Trial, Alioto Conflict of Interest Trial, the Bonanno Brothers, Stephanie Kline, Larry Layton, Dan White, San Francisco Proposition Hearings, Sara Jane Moore, and Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo / Pentagon Papers.

The main nemesis of The Network is the evil organization UGLI ( the Underground Government Liberation Intergroup ), headed by the equally evil Mr Sue ( played by Kurtwood Smith ) and comedian Taylor Negron as his second-in-command henchman.

During the academic year 2005-6, he was briefly the Carl F. H. Henry Professor of Theology and Science at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as the first director of the school's new Center for Theology and Science ( since replaced by prominent creationist Kurt Wise ).< ref >< cite > Creationist to will lead seminary science center </ cite > Peter Smith.

* Smith, David L. A Handbook of Contemporary Theology ( 1992 ), ch 2. a Fundamentalist view of Niebuhr

* Smith, Konden R., “ The Reed Smoot Hearings and the Theology of Politics: Perceiving an ‘ American ’ Identity ,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 ( Summer 2009 ), pp. 118 – 62.

In January 1985 Inter-Term and the Fall academic semester 1985, then Presbyterian Church in America ( PCA ) General Assembly Stated Clerk, Dr. Morton H. Smith, taught courses on Old Testament Bible Survey and the Theology of the Westminster Standards at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri as an Adjunct Professor.

Current ( 2008 ) deans include Steven Smith ( College at Southwestern ), Waylan Owens ( School of Church and Family Ministries ), David Allen ( School of Theology ), Keith Eitel ( Roy Fish School of Evangelism and Missions ), Stephen Johnson ( School of Church Music ) and J. Denny Autrey ( Havard School for Theological Studies in Houston, Texas ).

See T. K. Cheyne, Founders of Old Testament Criticism ( 1893 ); and Otto Pfleiderer's book translated into English by J. F. Smith as Development of Theology ( 1890 ).

Also in 2010, Dr. David Smith, formerly the Associate Dean of the School of Theology and Ministry at Indiana Wesleyan University, became Kingswood's Vice President of Academic Affairs.

Of the old school of the New England Theology, Smith was one of the foremost leaders of the new school Presbyterians.

Roman Catholic members: Bishop Arthur Kennedy of Boston • Paul Murray, professor of theology and religion at Durham University • Janet Smith, professor of moral theology • Redemptorist Father Vimal Tirimanna, professor at Rome's Alphonsianum University • Benedictine Father Henry Wansbrough from Ampleforth Abbey • Sister Teresa Okure of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, Nigeria • Father Adelbert Denaux, former professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, ( currently ) dean of the School of Catholic Theology of Tilburg University.

* Smith, Morton, The Common Theology of the Ancient near East, Journal of Biblical Literature ( 1952 ).