Denouncing the view that the sexual union is an end in itself, the Conference declared: `` We steadfastly uphold what must always be regarded as the governing considerations of Christian marriage.

Christian eschatology is concerned with death, an intermediate state, Heaven, Hell, the Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, a rapture, a tribulation, the Millennium, end of the world, the last judgment, a new heaven and a new earth, and the ultimate consummation of all of God's purposes.

The native Britons, whose Christian church survived the departure of the Romans, earn Bede's ire for refusing to help convert the Saxons ; by the end of the Historia the English, and their Church, are dominant over the Britons.

The first artificial canal in Christian Europe was the Fossa Carolina built at the end of the 8th century under personal supervision of Charlemagne.

The major issues and events in Christian eschatology are death and the afterlife, Heaven and Hell, the Second Coming of Jesus, the Resurrection of the Dead, the Rapture, the Tribulation, Millennialism, the end of the world, the Last Judgment, and the New Heaven and New Earth of the World to Come.

Eschatology is an ancient branch of study in Christian theology, presumably starting with the Olivet discourse, The Sheep and the Goats, and other discourses of end times by Jesus, with the doctrine of the Second Coming of Christ first touched on by Paul of Tarsus and Ignatius of Antioch ( c. 35 – 107 AD ), then given more consideration by the Christian apologist, Justin Martyr ( c. 100 – 165 ).

As such, during his reign, Constantius made a concerted attempt to mold the Christian church to follow this compromise position, and to this end, he convened several Christian councils during his reign, the most notable of which were one at Rimini and its twin at Seleuca, which met in 359 and 360 respectively.

[...] The Christian myth gives such time a beginning in creation, a center in the Christ-event, and an end in the final consummation.

However, the gradual conversions to Islam over the centuries changed Egypt from a Christian to a largely Muslim country by the end of the 12th century.

By the end of 1972, COG members had distributed approximately 42 million Christian tracts, mostly on God's salvation and America's doom.

Some Portuguese scholars believe that Garcia's supposed Christian name, " Diego ", was a misnomer or a misreading that came into use towards the end of the 16th century.

By the end of the century, the Foreign Christian Missionary Society and the Christian Women's Board of Missions were also engaged in missionary activities.

Jewish and Christian tradition viewed Moses as the author of Exodus and the entire Pentateuch, but by the end of the 19th century the increasing awareness of the discrepancies, inconsistencies, repetitions and other features of the Pentateuch had led scholars to abandon this idea.

Most modern eschatology and apocalypticism, both religious and secular, involves the violent disruption or destruction of the world, whereas Christian and Jewish eschatologies view the end times as the consummation or perfection of God's creation of the world.

Christian eschatology is concerned with death, an intermediate state, Heaven, hell, the return of Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, for several evangelical denominations, a rapture, a great tribulation, the Millennium, end of the world, the last judgment, a new heaven and a new earth ( the World to Come ), and the ultimate consummation of all of God's purposes.

Indeed, at the end of the 19th century scholar Ernest DeWitt Burton wrote that there could be " no reasonable doubt " that 1 John and the gospel were written by the same author, and Amos Wilder has said that, " Early Christian tradition and the great majority of modern scholars have agreed on the common authorship of these writings, even where the author has not been identified with the apostle John.

We cannot build a water-tight theology promising physical healing, surely, for the most ' miracle-ridden ' Christian will die in the end, yielding to the natural processes of senescence.

Christian scholar Donald Guthrie claims that the Gospel was likely widely known before the end of the 1st century, and was fully recognized by the early part of the second, while Helmut Koester states that aside from Marcion, " there is no certain evidence for its usage ," prior to ca.

Some Christian countries consider the end of the festive season to be after the feast of Epiphany.

By the end of the Roman Empire, having undergone Christian attack and repression, Epicureanism had all but died out, and would be resurrected in the 17th century by the atomist Pierre Gassendi, who adapted it to the Christian doctrine.

He succeeded his former liege lord, Oda Nobunaga, and brought an end to the Sengoku period.

At the end of the 13th century there was a feud between the citizens of Freiburg and their lord, Count Egino II of Freiburg.

" When these troubles were finally at an end, the inducements offered to settlers by the lord of the Manor attracted many emigrants, not only Germans, but Dutch, English, Scotch, Irish and French as well.

To this end, Yamanouchi Toyonori, the lord of Tosa, together with his advisor, Gotō Shōjirō, petitioned Yoshinobu to resign in order to make this possible.

Alain the Great, lord of Albret ( d. 1522 ), wished to marry Anne of Brittany, and to that end fought against Charles VIII ; but his hopes being defeated by the betrothal of Anne to Maximilian of Austria, he surrendered Nantes to the French in 1486.

At the end of 1584, the new lord deputy, Sir John Perrot, sent Stanley north in the company of Sir Henry Bagenal to act against the Ulster chieftains and the Scots led by Sorley Boy MacDonnell.

In a few cases, such as with Cologne, the former ecclesiastical lord continued to claim the right to exercice some residual feudal privileges over the Free City, a claim that gave rise to constant litigation almost until the end of the Empire.

*** Many of the Teleri ( Sindar ) chose to remain behind in order to look for their lord Thingol, who disappeared near the end of the journey.

As Dushasana began pulling Draupadi's sari off, she silently prayed to lord Krishna to protect her honour, and miraculously, regardless of how much of it dushasana pulled off, Draupadi's sari kept growing in length as if the fabric had no end.

After an interval in opposition from 1874 to 1880, Lord Kimberley returned to the Colonial Office in Gladstone's next ministry ; but at the end of 1882 he exchanged this office first for that of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and then for the secretaryship of state for India, a post he retained during the remainder of Gladstone's tenure of power ( 1882 – 1885, 1886, 1892 – 1894 ), though in 1892-1894 he combined with it that of the lord presidency of the council.

Vassalage ties between the shugo lord and kokujin often took place on the estates in a three way intermediary tie called the shugo contract ( shugo-uke ): a noble proprietor would give the responsibility of managing his estate to the shugo in exchange for a guaranteed year end ( nengu ) income delivered to the proprietor residing in the capital.

Then Lord Shiva grants her wish saying that she would get the same in her next birth with five husbands, she was shocked and asked lord shiva is it a boon or curse, shiva replied back saying " My child do not get worried, you will regain your virginity each an every morning you take bath, till the end of your life you will live with virginity " Hence she gets married to brothers each who represents a given quality: The just Yudhisthira for his wisdom of Dharma ; The powerful Bhima for his strength that exceeded that of a thousand elephants combined ; The valiant Arjuna for his courage and knowledge of the battlefield ; the exceedingly handsome Nakula and Sahadeva, for their love.

Towards the end of the 12th century Bartholomew de Ickford was the lower lord of one of Ickford's manors, apparently that belonging to Grestain Abbey.

at the end of the 12th century, local troubles combined with the town's position on the road into Brittany led the lord of Laval to build a great round keep which still has its original hoarding.

The actual number of villagers living in Handsacre during Domesday remains unknown, as does the amount of land farmed by them, also the amount of meadowland attached to the village and the amount of land, if any, farmed by the lord of the manor ; these figures were presented as a total for all fifteen dependant ' vills ' at the end of the entry.

South Beach end up having a falling out with a local crime lord named " The Gator ", so Calita sends Tanner on a job to blow up The Gator's Superyacht which is docked by an island south of Miami.

At the end of the game, Dante must go into the demon world to stop a demon lord from escaping, but the gate closes behind him and he is trapped.

Hanzo was called in to act as an official second to end the latter's suffering, but refused to take the sword on the blood of his own lord.

The Gríms saga lodinkinna ( Gríms saga loðinkinna ' Saga of Grim Hairy-cheek ') tells at the end that Vedrorm, son of Vémund the Old, was a powerful lord who asked for the hand of Brynhild, daughter of Grim Hairy-Cheek.

One of them a Ravishingly beautiful daughter of a rich business man was offered to sambandar in marriage but the saint politely declines after remembering the coming to end of his earth mission. Central to sambandar's hymn is the fact that severing of attachments and mundaneness leads one to lord and that the five letters namasivaya alone give one solace at the rosy anklet girt feet of lord sivan through his immaculate grace.

On 14 September 1224, the Albigensian Crusaders surrendered and the war came to an end, each southern lord making peace with the church.

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In fact, the inscriptions of Kulothunga I till the end of his rule around 1124 still call him ' Madurantaka and Ilamkondaan ' meaning lord of Madurai and Ilangai ( Sri Lanka ).