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Included are the following: Baptist Student Movement, Canterbury Club ( Episcopal ), Christian Science Organization, Friends' Meeting for Worship, Hillel ( Jewish ), Liberal Religious Fellowship, Lutheran Student Association, Newman Club ( Roman Catholic ), Presbyterian Student Fellowship, United Student Fellowship ( Congregational-Baptist ), and Wesley Fellowship ( Methodist ).
I was also publicly reprimanded, dragged through the mud by the radical press and made a figure of fun by such leftist publications as The New Republic, The New Yorker, Time and The Christian Science Monitor.
We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New England theology.
L'Unita and Hoy published identical denunciations of Short's elevation, l'Osservatore Romano and the Christian Science Monitor ignored it, Times of India snickered at it, and the Manchester Guardian simply reported it -- the Fosterites in England were few but extremely militant.
The Christian Science Monitor reports that " Counterinsurgency efforts focus on better grasping and meeting local needs " in Afghanistan, under the Human Terrain System ( HTS ) program ; in addition, HTS teams are working with the US military in Iraq.
She was the author of the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the Christian Science textbook and which, along with the Bible, serve as the permanent " impersonal pastor " of the church.
Sunday services are held throughout the year and weekly testimony meetings are held on Wednesday evenings, where following brief readings from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, those in attendance are invited to give testimonies of healing brought about through Christian Science prayer.
Christian Science metaphysics teach that God is Spirit and cites the first chapter of Genesis as the true story of creation, where in the King James Bible, " man " is both " male and female ", created " in the image and likeness " of God.
She called this experience " the falling apple " that led to her discovery of Christian Science.
The Bible and Eddy's textbook on Christian healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, are together the church's key doctrinal sources and have been ordained as the church's " dual impersonal pastor ".
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, is widely known for its publications, especially The Christian Science Monitor, a daily newspaper published internationally in print and on the Internet.
Of particular issue is the deity of Jesus, which Christian Science denies ; and a view that Christian Science does teach, that God is not the creator of finite ( material ) existence and its concomitant suffering, sin and death.
The Church of Christ, Scientist is sometimes confused with the Church of Scientology, an unrelated organization founded about 75 years after Christian Science.
The seal of Christian Science is a cross and crown with the words, " Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons ," and is a registered trademark of the church.
) ( Later, she gave it the name of " Christian Science " stating that she "... named it Christian, because it is compassionate, helpful, and spiritual.
But he urged her to write about it and soon she began her main work explaining her system of Christian healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
Rather than being ontologically real, in Christian Science evil and its manifestations are instead terrible lies about God and His creation.

Christian and teaches
Because Christianity teaches not only salvation in history, but salvation by the history of Christ, such an interpretation of death would require a drastic revision of the Christian understanding of the work of Christ.
Unlike other Christian groups, the Catholic Church teaches that those who die in a state of grace, but still carry venial sin go to a place called Purgatory where they undergo purification to enter Heaven.
Christian Science teaches that we are not Christians until we " go and do likewise ," until we in some degree " come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ ," as it says in the Scriptures ( Ephesians 4: 13 ).
Christian Science teaches that spiritual healing is a natural result of studying Jesus ' teachings and that he proved his teachings by healing.
According to Christian writers, most notably Paul, the Bible teaches that people are, in their current state, sinful, and the New Testament reveals that Jesus is both the Son of man and the Son of God, united in the hypostatic union, God the Son, God made incarnate ; that Jesus ' death by crucifixion was a sacrifice to atone for all humanity's sins, and that acceptance of Jesus as Savior and Lord saves one from Divine Judgment, giving Eternal life.
The New Testament teaches that the resurrection of Jesus, which Easter celebrates, is a foundation of the Christian faith.
The Christian egalitarian view holds that the Bible teaches the fundamental equality of women and men of all racial and ethnic mixes, all economic classes, and all age groups, based on the teachings and example of Jesus Christ and the overarching principles of scripture.
The theology of Christian Science includes a form of idealism: it teaches that all that truly exists is God and God's ideas ; that the world as it appears to the senses is a distortion of the underlying spiritual reality, a distortion that may be corrected ( both conceptually and in terms of human experience ) through a reorientation ( spiritualization ) of thought.
Resnicoff reported that Falwell supported the idea of using the Biblical verse that teaches that " God hears the words of our mouths and the meditations of our heart " as a basis for allowing Christian chaplains to offer " inclusive " prayers, because they could offer denominational words, such as " In Jesus's name ," silently, as a " meditation of the heart.
The Catholic Church teaches that, within the Christian community, the bishops as a body have succeeded to the body of the apostles and the Bishop of Rome has succeeded to Saint Peter.
Some Christian sects recognize the existence of a " modern-day " prophet, one such denomination is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( or " Mormons "), which teaches that God still communicates with mankind through prophecy.
The esoteric Christian tradition teaches that first there will be a preparatory period as the Sun enters Aquarius by precession: the coming age of Aquarius.
Christian Identity teaches that Jews do not descend from Judah ( as British Israelites maintain ) but from Satan.
Unity describes itself as a worldwide Christian organization which teaches a positive approach to life, seeking to accept the good in all people and events, and as beginning as a healing ministry and healing has been its main emphasis for over 100 years.
In many variations of Christian Identity thought, a key commonality is British Israelism, which teaches that many white Europeans are the literal descendants of the Israelites through the ten tribes which were taken away into captivity by the armies of Assyria.
Belhaven teaches from a " Christian Worldview Curriculum " and defines its mission as preparing " students academically and spiritually to serve Jesus Christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
; 1827: John Nelson Darby's Plymouth Brethren is founded to propagate the Christian eschatological movement of dispensationalism, which teaches that God looks upon Jews as the chosen people ( rejecting supersessionism ), and that the nation of Israel will be born again and brought to realize they crucified their Messiah at his second coming
COGIC teaches that the church is the community of Christian believers who have accepted Jesus Christ and submit to his lordship and authority in their lives.
Distinctively, in Wesleyan Protestantism theosis sometimes implies the doctrine of entire sanctification which teaches, in summary, that it is the Christian's goal, in principle possible to achieve, to live without any ( voluntary ) sin ( Christian perfection ).
The New Testament teaches that the resurrection of Jesus is a foundation of the Christian faith.
Christian Science teaches that the reality of God denies the reality of sin, sickness, death and the material world.
All good art has a Christian message, because only Christianity teaches an absolute brotherhood of all men.
Moore College teaches subjects in the areas of biblical studies, ministry and Christian thought and history.
Yet Catholics maintain that the belief in what occurs is unchanged since the origins of Christianity, and it is belief that Christian theology teaches is central: Jesus refers to faith, not to knowledge, in the Scriptures.

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