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.

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

Christian Scientists are instructed to follow Jesus ' example and heal as well, as the words in the registered trademark of the Cross and Crown indicate.

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.

However, in dualistic theologies such as that of Gnosticism, the two deities are not of equal rank, and the role of the Gnostic demiurge is closer to that of the Devil in Christian trinitarian theology than a diarch on equal terms with God ( who is represented in pantheistic fashion, as Pleroma ).

He wrote his trinitarian formula after becoming a Montanist ; his ideas were at first rejected as heresy by the church at large, but later accepted as Christian orthodoxy.

Their theology is thus opposed to the trinitarian theology of other Christian denominations.

Most trinitarian Christian churches consider this an Ecumenical council.

Although Odoacer was an Arian Christian, he rarely intervened in the affairs of the orthodox and trinitarian State church of the Roman Empire.

Most trinitarian Christian churches consider this an Ecumenical council.

In trinitarian Christian teaching, God became incarnate in Jesus Christ, sacrificing his first-born son to accomplish the reconciliation of God and humanity, which had separated itself from God through sin ( see the concept of original sin ).

Like the Christian Trinity, these beings are understood to work ultimately in harmony with one another, but this Hindu trinity does not have doctrinal status as in trinitarian Christianity, but is posited as simply one of many ways in which the Divine order of the universe may be understood.

Muslims, Jews, Unitarians and other nontrinitarians claim that the orthodox trinitarian Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit constitutes Tritheism, since these distinct " persons " are unified only by an impersonal substance ousia which does not transcend, or exist apart from, the persons.

The trinitarian formula is the phrase " in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit " ( original Greek,, or in Latin ), or words to that form and effect referring to the three persons of the Christian Trinity.

Some scholars of the Greek New Testament and of the historical Jesus, both liberal and conservative, regard the trinitarian formula as an early Christian elaboration.

There also exist significant similarities in Christian and Hindu theology, most notably in that both religions present a trinitarian view of God.

The Pentecostal Church of God ( PCG ) is a trinitarian Pentecostal Christian denomination headquartered in Bedford, Texas, United States.

* 1912: Olive Winchester, born in America, became the first woman ordained by any trinitarian Christian denomination in the United Kingdom when she was ordained by the Church of the Nazarene.

There also exist notable similarities in Christian and Hindu theology, most notably in that both religions present a trinitarian view of God.

However, there also exist significant similarities in Christian and Hindu theology, most notably in that both religions present a trinitarian view of God.

* The presuppositional apologetics of Cornelius Van Til which holds there is no neutral philosophical ground between the regenerate elect person and the unregenerate person, that the Bible reveals a self-authenticating worldview and system of truth, and that non-Christian, non-Reformed belief systems self-destruct when they become more consistent with their fundamentally trinitarian Christian presuppositions ( or the presuppositionalism of Van Til's fiercest critic Gordon Clark ), and

Yet the Didache, one of the earliest Christian writings on liturgical practices, mentions that baptism may occur by pouring water on the head three times using the trinitarian formula ( i. e., in the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit ).

It is the idea that a New Covenant of the trinitarian God with the Christians and the Christian Church replaces, fulfills or completes God's covenant with the Children of Israel and B ' nei Noah.

Christian laws of faith claim that a New Covenant of the trinitarian God with the Christians and the Christian Church replaces, fulfills or completes God's Mosaic covenant.

Also, Torrance ’ s influence can be seen in the thinking of Matthew Baker of Fordham University ; Elmer Colyer of the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, one of the founding Directors of the T. F. Torrance Theological Fellowship and author of a number of works on Torrance ; Gary Deddo, Senior Editor at InterVarsity Press and founding President of the T. F. Torrance Theological Fellowship and author of a number of works on Torrance ; George Dion Dragas, Professor of Patrology and Patristics, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts ; Eric Flett of Eastern University, St. David ’ s, Pennsylvania and author of a book on the Theology of Culture as understood through the thinking of Torrance ; Michael Gibson of Vanderbilt University ; Myk Habets of Carey Baptist College, Auckland, New Zealand, author of a number of works on Torrance, including a book on Torrance and Theosis ; George Hunsinger, Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and author of a number of works on Torrance as well as an important book on the Eucharist, influenced by Torrance ; Christian Kettler of Friends University, Kansas, the current President of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship and author of a number of books that demonstrate Torrance ’ s influence ; Paul D. Molnar, Professor of Systematic Theology at St. John ’ s University in Queens, New York, past President of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship and author of a number of works on Torrance including a book on Torrance ’ s trinitarian theology ; and Andrew Purves, Chair in Reformed Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.

This in spite of the criticism of trinitarian Christian dogma that is contained in Yitzhak of Troki's " Hizzuk Emunah ".

The ACCA states that its approach to theology and practice is a process of " critical reappropriation " which is open to influences from all sectors of trinitarian Christianity but is, at the same time, firmly grounded in the Syriac Christian tradition, particularly with regard to such basic matters as Christology, soteriology, ecclesiology, and ethics.