By the fourth century, however, " confessors "— people who had confessed their faith not by dying but by word and life — began to be venerated publicly.

Faith involves more than outward obedience to this authority, but also must be based on a deep personal understanding of religious teachings. By faith is meant, first, conscious knowledge, and second, the practice of good deeds.

By the 1930s, several faith healers drew large crowds and established worldwide followings.

By the late 1940s, Oral Roberts was well known, and he continued with faith healing until the 1980s.

By all accounts, both teams ' players thought Australia would win the match ; indeed the England team had enjoyed a raucous barbecue chez Botham on the Saturday evening, such was their lack of faith in a positive result.

By AD 354, Hilary of Poitiers wrote that the Manichaean faith was a significant force in southern Gaul.

By reason one asks questions of faith and seeks to understand God's action and will.

In July of the same year, in Seoul, South Korea, the Member Churches of the World Methodist Council ( WMC ) voted to approve and sign a " Methodist Statement of Association " with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ( JDDJ ), the agreement which was reached and officially accepted in 1999 by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation and which proclaimed that " Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ ’ s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works ... as sinners our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in any way ," affirming " fundamental doctrinal agreement " concerning justification between the Catholic Church, the LWF, and the World Methodist Council.

By 1211 the Livonian province of Metsepole ( now Limbaži district ) and mixed Livonian-Latgallian inhabited county of Idumea ( now Straupe ) was converted to the Roman Catholic faith.

By inter-religious pluralism, we mean the views held within one major faith tradition ( e. g., Christianity ) about the validity or truth of other major faith traditions ( e. g., Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, etc .).

# By the time of Jesus ' ministry, Judaism had ceased to be a living faith.

By the " law ", he meant God's requirements both in Old and New Testament ; the " gospel " meant the free gift of grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

By the early 1940s, however, Jesuit theologian John Courtney Murray perceived that the most important coming challenge was secularism, a challenge that could best be confronted by many faith communities working together.

By 1943 the Italian people had lost faith in Mussolini and no longer supported the war ; Italy had lost its colonies, the allies had taken North Africa in May, and Sicily had been invaded in July.

By 1528, less than ten years after the start of the Reformation, the lords of the Frankish margrave territories switched to the Lutheran faith.

By these 2 examples set apart, one is made better aware of the necessity of a greater understanding, of the potential of virtue, as it is paralleled here by both ; in " substance ,' ' actions ' and by the ' Person " of Christ Jesus or The Living Word of God, that each doing their own parts and / or in parallel, act on faith, with virtue and according to Biblical reference, are able to manifest miracles, by the Word of God.

By the 1840s, some Hicksite Quakers determined to bring women and men together in the faith as an expression of their spiritual equality.

By chanting mantras, maintaining mudras, or practicing certain forms of meditation, Tendai maintains that one is able to understand sense experiences as taught by the Buddha, have faith that one is innately an enlightened being, and that one can attain enlightenment within the current lifetime.

By Aiden ’ s death in 651, the Christian faith was becoming well-established in the area.

By the Father, Son and Holy Ghost that henceforth we would not adhere to the Franks, nor accept the faith of the Pope of Rome

By destroying Israel, by the Shoah, they ultimately wanted to tear up the taproot of the Christian faith and to replace it with a faith of their own invention: faith in the rule of man, the rule of the powerful.

By way of explanation we ourselves are prone to imagine that this achievement stems from the same American Catholic zeal and generosity which brought the parochial school system into existence.

By his zeal and exertions – for there were many conflicting interests to reconcile – he adjusted the affair in a manner at once creditable to his judgment and fortunate for his country.

By the time Acre surrendered on 12 July, Philip was severely ill with dysentery which reduced his crusading zeal.

By his indomitable zeal and untiring activity, this remarkable man rescued the Miaphysite community in Asia Minor and the East from the extinction ( with which persecution by the Byzantine imperial power threatened it ) through consecrating bishops, ordaining clergy, and uniting its scattered elements into an organization so well planned and so stable that it has endured through all the many political and dynastic storms in the Middle East.

By unapologetically ignoring most of the pop-tunes that were the de-facto repertoire of most of the swing bands of the mid-to late-1930's, and stubbornly sticking to playing many older jazz standards with zeal and in the spirit of their tradition ,-all brilliantly translated into a big-band context-the band and especially the Bob-Cats presaged the traditional jazz revival of the 1940s.

By the next century conquests had reached the Sulu islands in the southern tip of the Philippines where the population was animistic and they took up the task of converting the animistic population to Islam with renewed zeal.

By the Victorian era Gothic had ceased to be the dominant genre and was dismissed by most critics ( in fact the form's popularity as an established genre had already begun to erode with the success of the historical romance popularised by Sir Walter Scott ).

By the early 7th century, the ethnic distinction between Visigoths and Hispano-Romans had all but disappeared, but recognition of a Gothic origin, e. g. on gravestones, still survived among the nobility.

By the mid-18th century, however, the advent of Gothic literature brought psychological and mystical readings, returning madness and the Ghost to the forefront.

By one of Athalaric's own additions to the decree, it was decided that if a disputed election was carried before the Gothic officials of Ravenna by the Roman clergy and people, three thousand solidi would have to be paid into court.

By the time of the ascension of Clovis, Gothic Arians dominated Christian Gaul where Catholics were the minority.

By the time Holbein began his apprenticeship under Hans Herbster in Basel, he was already steeped in the late Gothic style, with its unsparing realism and emphasis on line, which influenced him throughout his life.

By 1876, the Mansion House portion of the convento had been razed and replaced with a large Gothic Revival brick church, designed to serve the growing population of immigrants who were now making the Mission area their home.

By eschewing the gallery level that featured in many early Gothic cathedrals ( normally between arcade and triforium ), the designers were able to make the richly glazed arcade and clerestory levels larger and almost equal in height, with just a narrow dark triforium in between.

By 1851 the " Chaumont suite " of early-16th century Late Gothic tapestries with subjects of courntry life emblemmatic of the triumph of Eternity, closely associated with Chaumont and now at the Cleveland Museum of Art, was still hanging in the " Chambre de Catherine de Médicis "; the tapestries had been cut and pieced to fit the room.

* By the beguinage ( 1264 ) a 15th century Gothic castle.

By the Gothic period crypts were rarely built, however burial vaults continued to be constructed beneath churches and referred to as crypts.

By its richness in details and by its iconography, this last work shows a rapprochement to French Gothic art.

By the end of his life, he ruled all of Gaul save the Gothic province of Septimania and the Burgundian kingdom in the southeast.

By 1880, a station building and three Gothic cottages had been built, followed by commercial buildings and a schoolhouse.

By this time the remaining ethnic distinction between the increasingly Romanized Visigoths and their Hispano-Roman subjects had all but disappeared ( the Gothic language lost its last and probably already declining function as a church language with the extirpation of Arianism, and dress & funerary customs also cease to be distinguishing features in ca.

By 348, one of the ( Pagan ) Gothic kings ( reikos ) began persecuting the Christian Goths, and Wulfila and many other Christian Goths fled to Moesia Secunda ( in modern Bulgaria ) in the Roman Empire.

By 1400, the International Gothic era was waning and giving way to the influence of the Italian Renaissance.

By 1798 Brenna raised a Gothic folly, Bip fortress, which fascinated Paul so much that he listed it on the Army register of real fortresses.

By the beginning of 401 Gainas's head rode a pike through Constantinople while another Gothic general became consul.

By the 15th century the parish church was cruciform, with a central Perpendicular Gothic belltower that was built in about 1400.

By the 1860s, Downing's preferred style had completely overshadowed the earlier Gothic Revival style.

By Tabley Mere is a boathouse in brick with stone dressings, but lacking a roof, in Gothic style ; it is listed at Grade II.

By the Gothic period small Trees are found in many types of manuscript, and Jesse is often more comfortably accommodated in a large bed, sometimes a luxurious one, as in the Beauvais window below.

By 1880, his works included residential terraces in the Italianate style, places of worship in diverse styles ( Romanesque Revival and Neo-Byzantine ), a High Gothic working men's club and an Italianate villa.