The theological bias is seen in the way it judges each king of Israel on the basis of whether he recognises the authority of the temple in Jerusalem ( none do, and therefore all are " evil "), and each king of Judah on the basis of whether he destroys the " high places " ( rivals to the Temple in Jerusalem ); it gives only passing mention to important and successful kings like Omri and Jeroboam II and totally ignores one of the most significant events in ancient Israel's history, the battle of Qarqar.

They witnessed the intellectual and theological battle the proponents of the new philosophy ( René Descartes lived for a few years in Utrecht ) fought with the proponents of the strict Reformed theologian Voetius.

By the mid-18th century, Jansenism proper had totally lost its battle to be a viable theological position within Catholicism.

In it he summed up the theological and epistemological underpinnings of intelligent design and its strategy for winning the battle:

We are concerned not with the genus communism nor with other species of the genus: Platonic, Stoic, early Christian, monastic, canonist or theological communism ; ;

This brings us to the fact that the realities we are dealing with lie not in the field of civil legislation, but in the realm of conscience and religion: They are moral judgments and matters of theological belief.

Although the theological forms of the past continue to exist in a way they do not in a more secularized situation, the striking thing is the rapidity with which they are being reduced to a marginal existence.

Even though his theological theses have become, to us, commonplaces, the fundamental interrogation he phrased is very much with us.

In response, the American Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada answered that the actions had been undertaken after lengthy scriptural and theological reflection, legally in accordance with their own canons and constitutions and after extensive consultation with the provinces of the Communion.

During its preparation he became a friend of Cosima Wagner ( then in Strasbourg ), with whom he had many theological and musical conversations, exploring his view of Bach's descriptive music, and playing the major Chorale Preludes for her at the Temple Neuf.

Three more, to contain the Chorale Preludes with Schweitzer's analyses, were to be worked on in Africa: but these were never completed, perhaps because for him they were inseparable from his evolving theological thought.

Schweitzer established his reputation further as a New Testament scholar with other theological studies including The Psychiatric Study of Jesus ( 1911 ); and his two studies of the apostle Paul, Paul and his Interpreters, and the more complete The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle ( 1930 ).

The connection many of them had with the church was of the slenderest kind, consisting mainly in adopting the title of abbé, after a remarkably moderate course of theological study, practising celibacy and wearing a distinctive dress — a short dark-violet coat with narrow collar.

Of all the various disagreements within the Christian Church, the Arian controversy has held the greatest force and power of theological and political conflict, with the possible exception of the Protestant Reformation.

Theologians compare him with Hilary, who they claim fell short of Ambrose's administrative excellence but demonstrated greater theological ability.

Osiander's divergence from Luther's doctrine of justification by faith involved him in a violent quarrel with Philip Melanchthon, who had adherents in Königsberg, and these theological disputes soon created an uproar in the town.

His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

The years were marked by persecution of the followers of the Paulician and Bogomil heresies — one of his last acts was to publicly burn at the stake Basil, a Bogomil leader, with whom he had engaged in a theological dispute.

Thus while among his own colleagues he seemed merely a hypocritical and arrogant priest, in his relations with his brother humanists, such as Cosimo de ' Medici, he appeared as the student of classical antiquities and especially of Greek theological authors ".

Its institutions included a post-graduate theological college ( opened in connection with the Church of England in 1892, until 1907, when it was removed to Llandaff ).

* Shows that some of the common criticisms of AP based on its relationship with numerology or the theological Design Argument are wrong.

As a teenager he was his father ’ s amanuensis and was regularly seen debating theological issues with the learned men of the area.

He used these, in conjunction with the Biblical texts themselves, to write his commentaries and other theological works.

Differences in style, theological content, and familiarity with Greek between the Gospel of John, the epistles of John, and the Revelation are seen by some scholars as indicating three separate authors.

Kings is " history-like ," but it mixes legends, folktales, miracle stories and fiction in with the annals, and its primary explanation for all that happens is God's offended sense of what is right ; it is therefore more fruitful to read it as theological literature in the form of history.

The Branch Davidians have many theological beliefs in common with Messianic Judaism

" In all the heated theological controversies of the day, particularly the long and bitter one concerning the views put forward by Dr Horace Bushnell, he was conspicuous, using his influence to bring about harmony, and in the councils of the Congregational churches, over two of which, the Brooklyn councils of 1874 and 1876. he presided as moderator, he manifested great ability both as a debater and as a parliamentarian.

Mary frequently expressed confidence in God's love, which placed her at odds with her father's theological outlook, leading to a religious crisis when she was twelve and first eligible to join the Congregational church.

His adoption of Congregational principles did not affect his theological position, and in 1647 he again argued against Arminianism in The Death of Death in the Death of Christ, which drew him into long debate with Richard Baxter.

In its early years under the presidency of James Strong, Carleton reflected the theological conservatism of its Minnesota Congregational founders.

The URC is a trinitarian church whose theological roots are Calvinist and whose historical and organisational roots are in the Presbyterian ( Reformed ), Congregational and Churches of Christ traditions.

Shortly after the end of the Civil War, members of The First Congregational Society of Washington considered establishing a theological seminary for the education of African-American clergymen.

Within the Congregational church at the time, a theological split occurred between those who advocated New Haven theology and those who adhered to more conservative beliefs.

It has been argued that the New Haven theology advocated by Taylor ( and others ) led to the New England Congregational churches being more open and amenable to the theological liberalism that influenced many mainline denominations in the late 19th century-an influence that is still being felt today.

He continued his theological studies at Yale until he was licensed to preach in May 1734, and installed as pastor of the Second Congregational Church of Lebanon, Connecticut.

For historical and theological reasons the gown is most typical of Congregational, Presbyterian and Reformed churches, that is those congregations primarily influenced by Calvinist formulations of Christian doctrine and church order.

Established by settlers in present-day New England fleeing religious persecution in their native England, the Congregational churches were identified with the Puritan theological and political perspective within Anglo-Saxon Protestantism during the 17th century.

In 1830 he succeeded Dr William Harrison as theological lecturer and professor of Oriental languages in Highbury Congregational College.

The union is notable in that the Congregational and Presbyterian churches came from a strong theological tradition of Calvinism, while the Methodist tradition was Arminian.

Since the 1980s theologians from the Oriental ( non-Chalcedonian ) Orthodox and Eastern ( Chalcedonian ) Orthodox churches have been meeting in a bid to resolve theological differences, and have concluded that many of the differences are caused by the two groups using different terminology to describe the same thing ( see Agreed Official Statements on Christology with the Eastern Orthodox Churches ).

It shares in the dialog and in the theological endeavors of the World Council of Churches.

Differences concerning the theological language for describing the person of Christ at the Council of Chalcedon caused these Churches to break full communion with the Roman Church.

With the rise of the Churches, attacks on Jews became motivated instead by theological considerations specifically deriving from Christian views about Jews and Judaism.

The Porvoo Common Statement is a report issued at the conclusion of theological conversations by official representatives of four Anglican Churches and eight Nordic and Baltic Lutheran Churches in 1989 – 1992.

Monophysitism's theological point of view is also rejected by the Oriental Orthodox Churches, but was widely accepted in Syria, Egypt and the Levant, leading to many tensions in the Coptic period of the Byzantine Empire.

In 1944 a theological conflict within the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands led to a break between the Reformed Church and the Reformed Churches ( liberated ).

* The Right Reverend Dr Dhirendra Sahu, Lord Bishop of Eastern Himalaya ; General Secretary, National Council of Churches of India ; author, The Church of North India: a historical and systematic theological inquiry into an ecumenical ecclesiology ( 1994 ) and United & uniting: a story of the Church of North India ( 2001 )

Churches and denominations may vary in which metaphor or explanation they consider most accurately fits into their theological perspective ; however all Christians emphasize that Jesus is the Saviour of the world and through his death the sins of mankind have been forgiven.

The Catholic and Orthodox Churches do not use this term as its implication of interchangeability does not agree with their theological teachings.

The Disciples favored college-educated clergy, while the Churches of Christ discouraged formal theological education because they opposed the creation of a professional clergy.

The political and theological divisions would grow until Rome and the East excommunicated each other in the 11th century, ultimately leading to the division of the Church into the Western ( Roman Catholic ) and Eastern ( Eastern Orthodox ) Churches.

The Catholic and Orthodox Churches do not use this term as its implication of interchangeability does not agree with their theological teachings.

There are also the Eastern Catholic Churches, which are counterparts of the various Churches listed above, in that they preserve the same theological and liturgical traditions as they do.

The General Assembly of the National Council of Churches in November 2007 approved a resolution for further study which stated that the " theological stance of Christian Zionism adversely affects:

Among his many theological works, An Exposition of the Epistles to the Seven Churches ( 1877 ), The Spirits in Prison ( 1884 ), The Book of Proverbs ( which he annotated in the Speaker's Commentary ), the Synoptic Gospels, Acts, and II Corinthians, in Charles Ellicott's New Testament Commentary, and Life and Letters of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells ( 1888 ) are most notable.

LCC is involved with foreign mission efforts in the following countries: Nicaragua, where work begun in 1997 resulted in the founding of the " Iglesia Luterana Sinodo de Nicaragua " ( ILSN ) in 2008 ; southeast Asia, where it assists in providing theological education for future pastors in Thailand and Cambodia ; and Ukraine, where it partners with the " Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches of Ukraine " ( SELCU ) in the training of future pastors at Concordia Seminary in Usatovo ( near Odessa ) in the southern part of the country.

For example, while Buxton notes the existence of a tradition that " Abyssinians invoked the aid of foreigners " to construct these monolithic churches, and admits that " there are clearly signs of Coptic influence in some decorative details " ( hardly surprising given the theological, ecclesiastical, and cultural links between the Ethiopian Orthodox and Coptic Orthodox Churches ), he is adamant about the native origins of these creations: " But the significant fact is remains that the rock-churches continue to follow the style of the local built-up prototypes, which themselves retain clear evidence of their basically Axumite origin.

As an example, he pointed to " false rumors that union between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches is imminent " claiming that the disseminators of such rumors were fully aware that " the differences discussed in these theological dialogues remain numerous and require lengthy debate ".

Jenkins is an author, designer and cartoonist from London ( not to be confused with Simon Jenkins, who has written a more traditional guide to " England's Thousand Best Churches "), while Goddard is a journalist and public relations consultant ; both have formal theological education.