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.

In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound influence on philosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and Jewish traditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influence Christian theology, especially the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church.

However, this is not in accordance with the orthodox Christian theology.

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.

In many ways, the conflict around Arian beliefs in the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries helped firmly define the centrality of the Trinity in Nicene Christian theology.

The two systems share both history and many doctrines, and the variety of the history of Christian theology, Arminianism is relevant to Calvinism ( or Reformed theology ).

It has been noted that Ambrose's theology was significantly influenced by that of Origen and Didymus the Blind, two other early Christian universalists.

However, he continued his slave trading career until 1754 or 1755, when he ended his seafaring altogether and began studying Christian theology.

The Christ, as both God and Man, is seen in Christian theology as fulfilling this role in the redemption of man and of the earth and in the final judgment against evil.

The area of Christian theology called Christology is primarily concerned with the nature and person of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament.

The foundation of Christian theology is expressed in the early Christian ecumenical creeds which contain claims predominantly accepted by followers of the Christian faith.

Among Christian beliefs, the death and resurrection of Jesus are two core events on which much of Christian doctrine and theology is based.

LDS theology includes the Christian doctrine of salvation only through Jesus Christ, though LDS doctrines regarding the nature of God and the potential of mankind differ significantly from mainstream Christianity.

Christian eschatology is a major branch of study within Christian theology.

Eschatology is an ancient branch of study in Christian theology, presumably starting with the Olivet discourse, The Sheep and the Goats, and other discourses of end times by Jesus, with the doctrine of the Second Coming of Christ first touched on by Paul of Tarsus and Ignatius of Antioch ( c. 35 – 107 AD ), then given more consideration by the Christian apologist, Justin Martyr ( c. 100 – 165 ).

Calvinism ( also called Reformed tradition, or the Reformed faith, and sometimes Reformed theology ) is a type of Protestant theological system and an alternative approach to the Christian life.

Christ Jesus is both " Wayshower " and savior in Christian Science theology.

The study of Latin learning and Christian theology in monasteries flourished.

Christology ( from Greek Χριστός Khristós and ,-logia ) is the field of study within Christian theology which is primarily concerned with the nature and person of Jesus Christ as recorded in the canonical Gospels and the epistles of the New Testament.

His ministry affirms the divine inspiration of the Bible, the authority of Tradition, and says "... that there is a place within the full life and ministry of the Christian Church for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Christians, both those who are called to lifelong celibacy and those who are partnered.

Now to the Christian, the Jew is the incomprehensibly obdurate man who declines to see what has happened ; and to the Jew, the Christian is the incomprehensibly daring man who affirms in an unredeemed world that its redemption has been accomplished.

Methodism affirms the traditional Christian belief in the triune Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as well as the orthodox understanding of the consubstantial humanity and divinity of Jesus.

Secular humanism affirms that with the present state of scientific knowledge, dogmatic belief in an absolutist moral / ethical system ( e. g. Kantian, Islamic, Christian ) is unreasonable.

The term may refer to any belief about the nature of Jesus Christ that affirms God as a singular entity and rejects the doctrine of the Trinity and is usually distinguished from Arianism, which was rejected by mainstream Christianity, a consensus of Christian bishops at the First Council of Nicaea in 325.

It deals with evangelism, and affirms the role of every Christian ( and not only ordained priests ) in spreading the Catholic religion.

In the late 20th century the Humanist movement that affirms the dignity and worth of all people came into conflict with conservative Christian groups in the United States and " Secular Humanism " became the most popular element of organized Humanism.

According to Christian Heritage New Zealand's self-description, the party aimed " to provide leadership that takes the initiative in building a culture that affirms marriage, strengthens families, and celebrates life as a precious gift of God.

Living Stream Ministry affirms that Lee's teachings are part of the Christian tradition, which a growing number in the evangelical community have confirmed over the past decade.

Thus, he holds the heathen gods to be real beings, but subordinate to the supreme Christian God ; in a streak of gnosticism, he affirms that the human soul ( Book II, 14-62 ) is not the work of God, but of an intermediate being, and is not immortal by nature, but capable of putting on immortality as a grace.

Using as an example Christianity, seen as a core conviction, Weber affirms that a politician cannot only be a man of " true Christian ethic " ( understood in terms " turning the other cheek ").

With a student / faculty ratio of 12: 1, Trinity Christian students receive individual attention that affirms their spiritual and academic experience.

Recognizing the need for support, the institute affirms the strategy's Christian, evangelistic orientation:

As a part of Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, conservative Christian scholarship affirms the following:

Schweitzer, a Lutheran, challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by historical-critical methodology current at his time in certain academic circles, as well as the traditional Christian view.

The mercy that Christ infused into Mosaic Law underlies the injury tariffs that figure so prominently in barbarian law codes, since Christian synods " established, through that mercy which Christ taught, that for almost every misdeed at the first offence secular lords might with their permission receive without sin the monetary compensation, which they then fixed.

It approved the state's blue law restricting commercial activities on Sunday, noting that while such laws originated to encourage attendance at Christian churches, the contemporary Maryland laws were intended to serve " to provide a uniform day of rest for all citizens " on a secular basis and to promote the secular values of " health, safety, recreation, and general well-being " through a common day of rest.

That this day coincides with Christian Sabbath is not a bar to the state's secular goals ; it neither reduces its effectiveness for secular purposes nor prevents adherents of other religions from observing their own holy days.

The Christian polity, embodying a less secular meaning, can be compatible with the idea of both a religious and a temporal body: Corpus Christianum.

A more secular meaning can denote that the term Christendom refers to Christians considered as a group, the " Political Christian World ", as an informal cultural hegemony that Christianity has traditionally enjoyed in the West.

* Common Era ( CE ) ( also Christian Era or Current Era ), secular alternative to Anno Domini ( AD )

Hayden White describes " the myth of Progress " as the " secular, Enlightenment counterpart " of " Christian myth ".

Celebration of Christian holy days is considered Avodah Zarah or idolatry and is forbidden ; however some secular Jews in the West treat Christmas as a secular holiday.

A mid-1980s debate about apologetic methodology between Ronald Enroth and J. Gordon Melton, led the latter to place more emphasis in his publications on differentiating the Christian countercult from the secular anti-cult.

Today it also serves as the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, while control of the building is shared between several Christian churches and secular entities in complicated arrangements essentially unchanged for centuries.

Most modern eschatology and apocalypticism, both religious and secular, involves the violent disruption or destruction of the world, whereas Christian and Jewish eschatologies view the end times as the consummation or perfection of God's creation of the world.

Traditional pre-Christian elements are often adopted into modern Christian and secular wedding ceremonies in many parts of Europe ( syncretism ), and a handfasting-style ceremony is also practised outside of the Neopagan subculture.

He believed that imitation of the early Muslims and the restoration of Sharia law were essential to Islam, that secular, Westernizing Muslims were actually agents of the West serving Western interests, and that the " plundering " of Muslim lands was part of a long-term conspiracy against Islam by the Christian West.

In the process, many fragments of classical learning are preserved which otherwise would have been hopelessly lost ; " in fact, in the majority of his works, including the Origines, he contributes little more than the mortar which connects excerpts from other authors, as if he was aware of his deficiencies and had more confidence in the stilus maiorum than his own " his translator Katherine Nell MacFarlane remarks ; on the other hand, some of these fragments were lost in the first place because Isidore ’ s work was so highly regarded — Braulio called it quecunque fere sciri debentur, " practically everything that it is necessary to know "— that it superseded the use of many individual works of the classics themselves, which were not recopied and have therefore been lost: " all secular knowledge that was of use to the Christian scholar had been winnowed out and contained in one handy volume ; the scholar need search no further ".

Falwell repeatedly denounced certain teachings in public schools and secular education in general, calling them breeding grounds for atheism, secularism, and humanism, which he claimed to be in contradiction with Christian morality.

In Protestant religion, Christian piety towards God was expressed through one's secular vocation ( secularisation of calling ).

As Europe became Christianized, the pagan holidays lost their religious character and either changed into popular secular celebrations, as with May Day, or were merged with or replaced by new Christian holidays as with Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and All Saint's Day.

Even today it is promulgated by some secular and even Christian groups.

While the Middle Ages did see secular politics in practice under the rule of the Holy Roman Empire, the academic field was wholly scholastic and therefore Christian in nature.

In the Middle Ages they played a role of secular importance in Western Europe, often acting as arbitrators between Christian monarchs, and averting several wars.