This belief in the unreality of imperfection, stemming from the allness of God, Spirit, is the basis of Christian Scientists ' characteristic reliance on prayer in place of traditional medical care, often with the aid of Christian Science practitioners.

Christian Scientists believe that through scientific study of the inspired word of the Bible, especially Jesus ' words and works, one can learn to heal.

Christian Scientists celebrate the sacraments of baptism and Eucharist in an entirely non-material way.

Christian Scientists are trinitarian, but in an unorthodox way.

While reliance on prayer is central to Christian Science, Christian Scientists are not officially required to refuse medicine.

Christian Scientists may take an intensive two-week " Primary " class from an authorized Christian Science teacher.

Many Christian Scientists thought the book violated the church's by-laws, and the editors of the church's religious periodicals and several other church employees resigned in protest.

In late 1993, a group of Christian Scientists filed suit against the Board of Directors, alleging a willful disregard for the Manual of the Mother Church in its financial dealings.

Christian Scientists distinguish their method from “ faith healing .” To a Christian Scientist, “ faith healing ” is something that relies merely on blind faith in miraculous cures.

Christian Scientists see themselves as practicing a well-defined process with a proven track record by means of the spiritualization of thought through prayer aimed at shedding the false beliefs of the mortal mind that manifest themselves as physical ailments.

In response, Christian Scientists say that Jesus never claimed to be God and even implicitly denied it in.

* List of Christian Scientists ( religious denomination )

* Principia College, a college for Christian Scientists in Elsah, Illinois

* Christian Way: Former Christian Scientists for Jesus Christ

* Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery ; Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Trial ; and Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Authority comprise the three-volume biography of Eddy favored by Christian Scientists.

Scholars who are not Christian Scientists rely on it, but church members strongly disfavor it.

She and Melcher were both practicing Christian Scientists, resulting in her not seeing a doctor for some time after symptoms that suggested cancer.

Category: American Christian Scientists

Category: American Christian Scientists

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

In Patchen's eyes, organized churches are as odious as organized governments, and Christian symbols, having been taken over by the moneyed classes, are now agents of corruption.

It is true, of course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now and then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.

Courses are offered in ethics, the philosophy and history of religion, Christian thought and history, and the Bible.

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 ).

To others whose concern it is to penetrate the significance of Christian Humanism, the Renaissance elements are of primary concern.

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

Teaching, research and study, according to highest standards, under Christian influence, are paramount in the Emory University policy.

`` I think they played Hail To The Chief better than the Marine Corps Band, and we are grateful to them '', President Kennedy remarked after mounting the bandstand and shaking hands with conductor James Christian Pfohl.

One of the ironies of the present crusade for Christian unity is that there are not, relatively speaking, many real Christians to unite.

A complete picture is impossible -- partly because of the limitations of space, partly because for millions of individuals who professed allegiance to the Christian faith data are unobtainable.

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.

Syriac and Christian Neo-Aramaic dialects are written in the Syriac alphabet.

Although punishments are made part of certain Christian conceptions of the afterlife, the prevalent concept of " eternal damnation " is a tenet of the Christian afterlife.

The most common criticism of HH Price's afterlife hypothesis has come from the religious community as his suggestions are not consistent with traditional Christian teaching, nor the teachings of any other monotheistic religion.

Articles of faith are sets of beliefs usually found in creeds, sometimes numbered, and often beginning with " We believe ...", which attempt to more or less define the fundamental theology of a given religion, and especially in the Christian Church.

The term apocrypha is used with various meanings, including " hidden ", " esoteric ", " spurious ", " of questionable authenticity ", ancient Chinese " revealed texts and objects " and " Christian texts that are not canonical ".

" There are also some Arminians, like Roger Olson, who believe Open theism to be an alternative view that a Christian can have.

The Nordendorf fibula ( early 7th century ) clearly records pagan theonyms, logaþorewodanwigiþonar read as " Wodan and Donar are magicians / sorcerers ", but this may be interpreted as either a pagan invocation of the powers of these deities, or a Christian protective charm against them.

Those who join the Church need to be instructed in the faith and the meaning of Christian discipleship before they take the sacred vows.

Christian Munch also instructed his son in history and literature, and entertained the children with vivid ghost-stories and tales of Edgar Allan Poe.

Maddocks claims that it is likely Hildegard learned simple Latin, and the tenets of the Christian faith, but was not instructed in the Seven Liberal Arts, which formed the basis of all education for the learned classes in the Middle Ages: the Trivium of grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric plus the Quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.

After more bullying from Philip, Pope Clement then issued the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae on November 22, 1307, which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.

" By 1830, Smith reported that he had been instructed that God would use him to re-establish the true Christian church and that the Book of Mormon would be the means of establishing correct doctrine for the restored church.

* 1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.

We, adhering faithfully to the tradition received from the beginning of the Christian faith, to the glory of God, our Saviour, the elevation of the Catholic religion and the salvation of Christian peoples, with the approbation of the sacred Council, teach and explain that the dogma has been divinely revealed: that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when carrying out the duty of the pastor and teacher of all Christians by his supreme apostolic authority he defines a doctrine of faith or morals to be held by the universal Church, through the divine assistance promised him in blessed Peter, operates with that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer wished that His church be instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals ; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable.

As late as 1830 local vicars was instructed to write both given ( Christian ) names as well as last names in the baptismal record.

Let a power be given to the Secretary to establish and maintain free schools in every city, village and township in the United States ; ... Let the youth of our country be instructed in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and in the doctrines of a religion of some kind ; the Christian religion should be preferred to all others ; for it belongs to this religion exclusively to teach us not only to cultivate peace with all men, but to forgive — nay more, to love our very enemies ....< p >

The twenty boys and girls were taught to read and write and " instructed in the principles of the Christian religion.

The anonymous author said that the boy was given into his custody as an infant on 7 October 1812 and that he instructed him in reading, writing and the Christian religion, but never let him " take a single step out of my house ".

This work led to an attack from the Catholic side by Richard Challoner, in the preface to The Catholic Christian instructed in the Sacraments, Sacrifice and Ceremonies of the Church ( 1737 ); Challoner in particular accused Middleton of misrepresenting the articles of the Tridentine Creed that applied to saints and images.

Albeit a Christian pejorative myth, it is and was never interpreted in Jewish jurisprudence to mean that a person who has injured the eye of another, literally had his own eye injured as punishment, or was instructed to pay the exact monetary value of an eye as compensation.

He met a hermit who instructed him in the Christian faith.

Consumed with grief and guilt Rossetti went to see Ford Madox Brown who is supposed to have instructed him to burn the note – under the law at the time suicide was both illegal and immoral and would have brought a scandal on the family as well, as suicide would bar Siddal from a Christian burial.

In 1677 all members of the community who were instructed in Christian doctrine, made a public profession of faith, and were living decent lives, could participate in communion.

: Christian believers are instructed by Scripture to acknowledge the Hebraic roots of their faith and to actively assist and participate in the plan of God for the Ingathering of the Jewish People and the Restoration of the nation of Israel in our day.

Nearly all of the Biblical citations held up by Christian communists to support the idea that Jesus instituted a form of communism during His mortal ministry, are based on the idea that Christians are instructed to provide for the sick and the destitute.

Western Christian travellers to Japan from the 16th century have noted ( with distaste ) the prevalence and acceptance of forms of homosexuality among Japanese Buddhists — Jesuit priest Francis Cabral wrote in 1596 that " abominations of the flesh " and " vicious habits " were " regarded in Japan as quite honourable ; men of standing entrust their sons to the bonzes to be instructed in such things, and at the same time to serve their lust ".

Let the youth of our country be instructed in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and in the doctrines of a religion of some kind ; the Christian religion should be preferred to all others ; for it belongs to this religion exclusively to teach us not only to cultivate peace with all men, but to forgive — nay more, to love our very enemies.

It is in the light of this that Pope John Paul II, touching in part on Quebral ’ s ( 2007 ) thought on ‘ development communication in a borderless world ’, instructed Christian communicators to “ interpret modern cultural needs, committing themselves to approaching the communications age not as a time of alienation and confusion, but as a valuable time for the quest for the truth and for developing communion between persons and peoples.

Spiritual life continued to be an important part of the schools, but religious services ceased to be compulsory and students were no longer instructed in Christian doctrine.

Clovis was victorious, and afterward he had himself instructed in the Christian faith by Saint Remigius.