Can the church risk assuming that the `` folly '' of men is as dear to God as their `` wisdom '', or, as is also commonly implied, that `` the foolishness of God '' and `` the foolishness of men '' are simply two ways of talking about the same thing??

The term " Catholic " is commonly associated with the whole of the church led by the Roman Pontiff, the Catholic Church, and whose over one billion adherents are about half of the estimated 2. 1 billion Christians.

However, the term evangelist is rarely used for this position, the church retaining the term Patriarch, the term most commonly used in the days of founder Joseph Smith, Jr.

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly referred to as the Orthodox Church, is the second largest Christian church in the world, with an estimated 300 million adherents, primarily in Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

In 1517 the Reformation began with the publication of Martin Luther's 95 Theses ; he had posted them in the town square, and gave copies of them to German nobles, but it is debated whether he nailed them to the church door in Wittenberg as is commonly said.

The primacy of Rome makes its bishop the worldwide leader of the church, commonly known as the Pope.

They were also commonly used for low-budget amateur publishing, including club newsletters and church bulletins.

In 1880, the general conference included in the Discipline a broad statement which included, “ Temperance is a Christian virtue, Scripturally enjoined .” Due to the temperate stance of the church, the practice of Eucharist was altered — to this day, Methodist churches most commonly use grape juice symbolically during Communion rather than wine.

Educated pastors could read the Bible in its original languages of Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic, as well as church tradition and scholarly works, which were most commonly written in Latin.

Lead, which is sometimes used for church roofs, was most commonly used as flashing in valleys and around chimneys on domestic roofs, particularly those of slate.

They are also commonly worn for officers ' weddings, and when wearing dress uniforms to church — although they are rarely actually worn in the church itself.

It is the church in which Cardinal Humbert in 1054 excommunicated Michael I Cerularius – which is commonly considered the start of the Great Schism.

Julian taught that humans sin because they are ignorant or naive, not because they are evil, which was the reason commonly given by the church for sin during the Middle Ages.

Harald Harfager was commonly stated to have been buried under a mound at Haugar by the Strait of Karmsund near the church in Haugesund, an area that later would be named the town and municipal Haugesund.

Improvisation is still commonly practised by some organists at concerts or church services, and courses in improvisation ( including free improvisation ) are part of many higher education programmes for church musicians.

* Church monuments – within a church ( or tomb-style chests in a churchyard ) may be places of interment, but this is unusual ; they more commonly stand over the grave or burial vault rather than containing the actual body and are therefore not tombs

Most commonly, Israel is seen as distinct from the church ; Messianic Jews, being a part of both Israel and the church, are seen as the necessary link between the ' gentile ' People of God and the commonwealth of God's people of Israel.

The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Bath, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is an Anglican parish church and a former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England.

Sometime between 1550 and 1580, members of the Reformed church in France came to be commonly known as Huguenots.

These church bodies became commonly known as " Dunkers ," and more formally as German Baptist Brethren.

Nevertheless, the Community of Christ offers a number of the commonly held beliefs of its members and leaders as the " generally accepted beliefs of the church.

The official title of the church is " St Botolph's Church of the Parish of Boston ", but it is more commonly known as the " Boston Stump ", and more simply by locals " the Stump " ever since it was completed.

The good feeling which exists between these two important church figures is now well known in England.

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

Very little is known of the church under Alfred.

This order is known from a bull of Pope Gregory XI addressed to the monks of the church of St Ambrose outside Milan.

As an architect he is best known for replacing the old church of Hagia Sophia at Constantinople in 532 ; his daring plans for the church strikingly displayed his knowledge.

The earliest record of a settlement at Ajaccio having a name ancestral to its name is the exhortation in Epistle 77 written in 601 CE of Gregory the great to the Defensor Boniface, one of two known rectors of the early Corsican church, not to leave Aleria and Adjacium without bishops.

Almost everything that is known of Bede's life is contained in the last chapter of his Historia Ecclesiastica, a history of the church in England.

In the 21st century, the more senior bishops of the Church of England continue to sit in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as representatives of the established church, and are known as Lords Spiritual.

It is the largest church originating on American soil, and it is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith during the period of religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening.

After identifying a need for a church for Afrikaans speakers living in Holland, a church was established in Leusden and is known as Suiderkruis Kerk.

Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

Congregationalist polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of church governance in which every local church congregation is independent, ecclesiastically sovereign, or " autonomous ".

The Council of Chalcedon was a church council held from October 8 to November 1, 451 AD, at Chalcedon ( a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor ), on the Asian side of the Bosporus, known in modern times as Istanbul.

Large crucifixes high across the central axis of a church are known by the Old English term rood.

* In France, the Dominicans are known as Jacobins, because their first convent in Paris was built near the church of Saint Jacques, ( St. James ) and Jacques ( James ) is Jacobus in Latin.

The local Evangelist – Patriarchs of the church were governed by an individual with church-wide authority known as the Presiding Patriarch.

Æthelberht provided the new church with land in Canterbury, at what came to be known as St Augustine's Abbey.

For much of the written history of Christianity, episcopal government was the only known form of church organization.

The work also describes traditional religious practices at the oak of Mamre as though they were still happening, while they are known to have been suppressed soon after 325, when a church was built on the site.

In 1634, Borromini received his first major independent commission to design the church, cloister and monastic buildings of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane ( also known as San Carlino ).

) show that Apollos was known to Paul and the church at the time of writing, which would preclude the first recorded visit to Ephesus ( See Acts 18: 24-28 ).

Another important church built in the 11th century is the Patron Saint church of San Giovanni Battista, located in the oldest section of the village also known as " Su Piggiu ".