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 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 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

Other sources suggest that Christian describes the person's " Christ-like " inability to sin, stemming, in such cases, from an incapacity to distinguish right from wrong.

" Orthodox ", from Greek orthos (" right ", " true ", " straight ") + doxa (" opinion " or " belief ", related to dokein, " to think ") was adopted by the Church in order to distinguish itself from what was becoming a larger and larger body of non-orthodox Christian denominations.

Also, Seto and Võro distinguish themselves from each other less by language and more by their respective Christian confession.

Consequently it is generally not possible to distinguish a Christian use of a given image on an object of that period from a non-Christian use.

The qualification " latter-day " refers to the doctrine that members are living in the " latter days ", before the Second Coming of Christ, and is used to distinguish the members of the LDS Church, which considers itself the restoration of the ancient Christian church .< ref >

There is a generally recognized set of " distinctive " doctrines which distinguish Adventism from the rest of the Christian world, although not all of these teachings are wholly unique to Adventism:

Presumably Justice Black added the word secular to emphasize the non-theistic nature of the Fellowship of Humanity and distinguish their brand of humanism from that associated with, for example, Christian humanism.

The principal words typically used to distinguish houses of worship in Western Christian architecture are basilica, cathedral and church.

Some Evangelical Christian commentaries distinguish Tartarus as a place for wicked angels and Gehenna as a place for wicked humans on the basis of this verse.

The Latin term came to be used of the Christian eucharist in particular, sometimes named a " bloodless sacrifice " to distinguish it from blood sacrifices.

Charleston is the postal address of the international headquarters of the Christian denomination The Church of God, commonly called " The Church of God ( Charleston, Tennessee )" to distinguish it from other similarly named denominations.

One goal of missiology is to distinguish between practices that are essential to Christianity which must be practiced by Christians in all cultures, and other strictly cultural expressions of Christianity that can vary between societies while still expressing the Christian faith.

Urban contemporary gospel ( sometimes still marketed as " Black gospel " to help distinguish it from other forms of Christian music ) is a subgenre of contemporary gospel music.

He was an important artist in the young Jesus music movement, which would later bloom into the Christian music industry, although his generally liberal political views distinguish him from many such artists.

Perkunatete or Perkunatele is in Baltic mythology the thunder goddess mother of Perkunas, in Slavic mythology referred to as Percunatele mother of Perun, which is probably derived from the Balts Like many such goddesses absorbed into Christianity, she is, today, difficult to distinguish from the Christian madonna, Mary, one of whose epithets was Panna Maria Percunatele.

Originally used by choice among Jews to distinguish themselves, it was later made compulsory in some places by Christian governments as a discriminatory measure.

In 2006 he started his own church calling themselves the International Christian Churches ( ICC ), in 2007 he moved to Los Angeles to distinguish it from the ICOC.

Formal principle and material principle are two categories in Christian theology to identify and distinguish the authoritative source of theology ( formal principle ) from the theology itself, especially the central doctrine of that theology ( material principle ), of a religion, religious movement, tradition, body, denomination, or organization.

This was a move to distinguish the modern Christian Universalist movement from Unitarian Universalism, and to promote ecumenical unity among Christian believers in universal reconciliation.

The term may also be used to distinguish between days that may be celebrated as secular holidays rather than religious holidays such as the celebration of New Year's Day on January 1 ( Gregorian calendar ) and January 14 ( Julian Calendar ) in certain eastern Orthodox Christian countries such as Russia.

Under the Christian emperors the name mensores was changed into agrimensores to distinguish them from another class of mensores, who are mentioned in the codes of Theodosius I and Justinian I.

Conservative rabbis who use the term intelligent design in their sermons often distinguish their views from the Christian use of the term.